9210161820 | Socrates | Great philosopher who believed that virtue was the highest good | 0 | |
9210161821 | Aristotle | Student of Plato who was taught at the Academy in Alexandria, later tutor to Alexandria the Great | 1 | |
9210161822 | Hellenism | Means by which non- Greek people adopted Greek language, culture, education, literature, architecture, and other customs | 2 | |
9210161823 | Polybius | Greek historian eho after being deported to Rome, wrote the rise and fall of the Roman Enpire | 3 | |
9210161824 | Carthage | African kingdom in modern-day Tunisia that was an economic and military rival in Rome | 4 | |
9210161825 | Paterfamilias | The rldest male jn a Roman Family, and, legally the only one who could own land | 5 | |
9210161826 | Augustus | Title which was awarded to Octavian Caesar, successor to Julius Caesar, by the Roman Senate; means revered | 6 | |
9210161827 | Jesus | Nazarene rabbi believed bu Christians to be the Messiah, the figure eho would bring salvation to mankind | 7 | |
9210161828 | Augustine | Author of the Confessions, and a prominent early Christian thinker who encouraged Christians to confess their sins | 8 | |
9210161829 | Enin | Japanese Monk who traveled to China between 838 and 847 to obtain original Buddhist texts | 9 | |
9210161830 | Bodhisattva | Buddhust term denoting a being headed for Buddhahood who postpones it to help others | 10 | |
9210161831 | Tang Dynasty | Dynasty that was a political and cultural high point in Chinese History | 11 | |
9210161832 | Empower Wu | The only female to openly rule China as Emporer | 12 | |
9210161833 | Silla | Korean Kingdom that adoptef Buddhism and united with the Tang Dynasty | 13 | |
9210161834 | Kana | Alphabet developed in the Ninth Century that allowed Japanese to write the pronunciation of words in Japanese | 14 | |
9210161835 | Sima Qian | Author of Records of the Grand Historian, a history of China from ancient times to the first century B.C.E | 15 | |
9210161836 | Oracle Bones | Earliest surviving written records in China, found on bones and Turtle Shells | 16 | |
9210161837 | Mandate of Heaven | Chinese belief that Heaven generated the power to choose the rughtful ruler of China | 17 | |
9210161838 | Daoism | Chinese belief system that stressed the "Way", as expressed in the Dao | 18 | |
9210161839 | Qin Dynasty | The first dynasty to rule over a unified China | 19 | |
9210161840 | Xiongnu | Nomadic people of Northern China who's milatary strength cane from Brilliant horsemanship | 20 | |
9210161841 | Mau Pialug | Polynesian who used traditional navigation process to travel from Hawaii to Tahiti in 1976 | 21 | |
9210161842 | Olmec | Complex Society that developed on the Gulf of Mexico from Veracruz to Tabasco | 22 | |
9210161843 | Obsidian | Volcanic glass used to make knife and weapon blades | 23 | |
9210161844 | Caral | Earliest complex society in the Americas, in modern-day Peru | 24 | |
9210161845 | Polynesian Triangle | Imaginary triangle linking Hawaii, Easter Island, and New Zealand | 25 | |
9210161846 | Moai | Name of the 887 statues made of volcanic rock found on Easter Island | 26 | |
9210161847 | Herodotus | Greek soeaking Historian, born in Helicarnassus | 27 | |
9210161848 | Zoroastrianism | The first monotheistic religion, Ahura Mazda was the name of the Deity | 28 | |
9210161849 | Lydian Coins | The first metal couns in the World, made from Electrum, and alloy of gold and silver | 29 | |
9210161850 | Ocher | Reddish-brown iron based pigment used to color soil and decorate cave walls | 30 | |
9210161851 | Mitochondrial Eve | First female ancestor shared by all living humans. | 31 | |
9210161852 | Beringia | Landmass not submerged below water that connected the tip of Siberia with the eastern corner of Alaska | 32 | |
9210161853 | Stratigraphy | archaeological principle that, at an undisturbed site, material from upper levels is more recent than that from lower levels | 33 | |
9210161854 | Neolithic | term that means "New Stone Age" | 34 | |
9210161855 | Catalhoyuk | world's largest early settlement, with a population between 5-6,000 located in modern-day Turkey | 35 | |
9210161856 | Gilgamesh | name of a historic king of Uruk, subject of an Epic Poem | 36 | |
9210161857 | Bronze | an alloy of copper and tin used to make the earliest metal tools | 37 | |
9210161858 | Cuneiform | term, meaning wedge-shaped, the writing system of Sumer, later became completely phonetic | 38 | |
9210161859 | Pharoah | god-king who ruled the unified kingdom of Egypt | 39 | |
9210161860 | Papyrus | convenient but perishable writing material made from a reed that grew along the Nile | 40 | |
9210161861 | Jew | term that originally identified a person as from Judea, eventually applied to anyone that was Hebrew | 41 | |
9210161862 | Dharma | Sanskirt term meaning correct conduct | 42 | |
9210161863 | Sanskirt | language, belonging to the Indo-European language family, spoken by Indo-Aryans | 43 | |
9210161864 | Jati | term that is used to refer to a "subcaste" in modern-day India | 44 | |
9210161865 | Nirvana | Sanskirt term that means "extinction," used to refer to a person who followed Buddhism and reached ultimate understanding | 45 | |
9210161866 | Chakravartin | turner of the wheel, a Buddhist term for the ideal ruler who patronized Buddhism but never became a monk | 46 | |
9210161867 | Dhows | small sailboats used in the Indian Ocean | 47 | |
9210161868 | Muhammed | Believed by the Muslims to be the last prophet of God, who received God's revelation directly from the Angel Gabriel | 48 | |
9210161869 | Hajj | A pilgrimage to Mecca by all Muslims in their lifetime who could afford the trip | 49 | |
9210161870 | Quran | the book believed by Muslims to be the direct word of God as revealed to Muhammed | 50 | |
9210161871 | Sunni | larger of the two Muslim groups that formed after the death of the fourth Caliph, Sunni Ali | 51 | |
9210161872 | Astrolabe | navigational instrument that was invented/developed by Muslims and was used the world over | 52 | |
9210161873 | Maghrib | African coastal region facing the Mediterranean whose residents largely converted to Islam in the 1100s | 53 | |
9210161874 | Al-Bakari | Muslim geographer based in Cordoba, Spain; whose Book of Routes and Realms, is one of the first written resources about Africa | 54 | |
9210161875 | Byzantine Empire | eastern half of the Roman Empire after the loss of the Western Half in 476 | 55 | |
9210161876 | Plague | refers to Bubonic and Pneumonic Plague, both caused by Pasturella Pestis | 56 | |
9210161877 | Iconoclasts | members of a movement calling for the destruction of images of Jesus, Mary, and the Saints, as they were believed to violate the Second Commandment against graven images | 57 | |
9210161878 | Merovingian Dynasty | Frankish Dynasty in modern-day France and Germany, whose founder Clovis. converted to Christianity and ruled as a war-band leader | 58 | |
9210161879 | Danelaw | region including most of Northern and Eastern England, over which Scandinavians maintained control | 59 | |
9210161880 | Skraelings | term the Vinland Sagas for Americans living on the coast of Canada and possibly Maine | 60 | |
9210161881 | Australia | Where were Mungo Man and Woman found? | 61 | |
9210161882 | Isolation and Independence | What is so important about the settlement and development of people in Australia? | 62 | |
9210161883 | We all have one common ancestor- Mitochondria Eve | What have we learned from Recent DNA studies in Evidence? | 63 | |
9210161884 | Monte Verde, Chile | What is the most important site of ancient culture in the Americas? | 64 | |
9210161885 | a footprint | What evidence of human population was found at Monte Verde? | 65 | |
9210161886 | speech | What was required for Long-Distance migration to be affected? | 66 | |
9210161887 | A surplus of agriculture | What is required to develop a large, complex urban centers? | 67 | |
9210161888 | Empire | What was the great accomplishment of Sargon of Akkad? | 68 | |
9210161889 | Evidence of large city walls (Jericho) | What evidence is there that the Hebrews formed a complex society between 1000 and 900 BCE? | 69 | |
9210161890 | it was a better option than their water | What is the best explanation that Mesopotamians drank Beer? | 70 | |
9210161891 | specialized labor, political structure, class system | What are the defining characteristics of a complex society? | 71 | |
9210161892 | none of them were slaves | What is the greatest characteristic of the workers who were responsible for working on the Pyramids of Egypt? | 72 | |
9210161893 | be a scribe | How could a person hope to achieve upward mobility in Egypt? | 73 | |
9210161894 | he was shocked by the level of violence | What was the reason Ashoka felt remorse after the battle of Kalinga? | 74 | |
9210161895 | The written language has not been deciphered | Why do we have little knowledge of Harappan Society? | 75 | |
9210161896 | There is no evidence that Buddhism spread outside of India | What is the problem with Ashoka's claim that he spread Buddhism outside the borders of India during his reign? | 76 | |
9210161897 | Appointed local rulers to oversee operations | How did Indian rulers approach exercising control over their ceremonial states? | 77 | |
9210161898 | he witnessed the world's suffering | What was the reason Siddhartha left home, his wife, and child to wander the world and search for answers? | 78 | |
9210161899 | plumbing, running water, and waste disposal | What feature, which was a rare one, was provided for the citizens of Harappan city-states? | 79 | |
9210161900 | proximity to the ocean | Rainfall in China depends on what? | 80 | |
9210161901 | oracle bones and turtle shells | What oracles did the Chinese use to predict the future? | 81 | |
9210161902 | set up a uniform system of laws | What did the First Emperor of China see as his most important accomplishment? | 82 | |
9210161903 | divided country into semi-independent states | How was the Han Dynasty's Emperors able to control their Empire without strict discipline? | 83 | |
9210161904 | The Chinese did not have as good a pasture system | Why could the Chinese never match the quality of Horses the Xiongnu bred? | 84 | |
9210161905 | Spread confusion theory through China | The tablets placed on mountains by the first of the Qin Emperors was to...? | 85 | |
9210161906 | Irrigation | What was it that the Persians did that enabled them to farm? | 86 | |
9210161907 | He was a prisoner | How was it that Polybius came to live most of his life in Rome? | 87 | |
9210161908 | Be a citizen if they could speak Latin | What privileges did Rome offer to the people it conquered? | 88 | |
9210161909 | increased migration to urban centers | What was a consequence of increased inequality in the Roman countryside? | 89 | |
9210161910 | took control of the military from senate | Being fearful of the military, what steps did Augustus take to protect him? | 90 | |
9210161911 | easy to defend | What was the reason Byzantium was chosen as the new center of the Roman Empire? | 91 | |
9210161912 | Byzantium existed for another 1,000 years | What is so controversial about Rome falling in 476? | 92 | |
9210161913 | People were becoming Hindu | What was the reason Buddhism was loosing adherents in India between 100 & 1000 | 93 | |
9210489721 | they wanted the people to see them as pious | What was the rationale behind the chola rulers support of shiva temples | 94 | |
9210489722 | the prevailing winds | What was the determining factor for the merchants in SE asia | 95 | |
9210489723 | Confucianism | What tradition of China was challenged by the introduction of Buddhism in china | 96 | |
9210489724 | They found a common path | What compromise was worked out between Confucianism and Buddhism | 97 | |
9210489725 | Only empower to openly rule as a woman | What was so special about empower Wu | 98 | |
9210489726 | Archangel Gabriel | Who was is exactly who brought the message to Muhammad | 99 | |
9210489727 | All worship the same God, all acknowledge Abraham | Is there any commonality between Islam, Christianity, and islam | 100 | |
9210489728 | The death of the caliph | What are some of the reasons for the fall of the Abbasid empire | 101 | |
9210489729 | Wide streets and running water | What were some of the features of cordoba | 102 | |
9210489730 | The mongols | What was the cause of Muslim Baghdad and the caliphate ending | 103 | |
9210489731 | Pilgrimage form mendena to Mecca, ends at the Kabbalah | What are the symbolic actions and acts of the hajj | 104 | |
9210489732 | They were barbarians | How did the romans view the Germanic peoples of Gaul | 105 | |
9210489733 | Condensed 12,000 books into 6 | What was the big deal about Justinians civil code | 106 | |
9210489734 | Plague | What disaster struck the Byzantine empire in 541 | 107 | |
9210489735 | Destroying graven images | What was the great controversy of the iconoclast movement | 108 | |
9210489736 | No written language | Why is it that we know so little of the Germanic speaking people of Europe | 109 | |
9210489737 | The franks | Which of the Germanic speaking tribes eventually evolved into a developed culture | 110 | |
9210489738 | navigation system and travels | What was so unique about the people of the pacific islands | 111 | |
9210489739 | They raised no animals for slaughter | Why was it that the mesoamericans supplemented their diets with foods rich in B12 | 112 | |
9210489740 | Cacao | What was the favored drink of the maya | 113 | |
9210489741 | sophisticated human development | Why is carnal so famous | 114 | |
9210489742 | There is evidence of the Polynesian staple foods all over the area | For what reason does many feel the Polynesian migrations were intentional | 115 | |
9210489743 | There are no commonalities between the 2 societies | How was it determined that the people of the Andes developed separately than the Olmec | 116 | |
9210489744 | Social and behavioral mores | What is the Avesta seen a scource of | 117 | |
9210489745 | defeated the achemenid | The Medes conquered the Assyrians, who were bested by the Persians, who then... | 118 | |
9210489746 | Capable of doing good or evil- free wil | Zarathustra taught everyone that... | 119 | |
9210489747 | Dug irrigation ditches | What made the Persians able to farm their homeland | 120 |
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