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| 10820163622 | Herodotus | Greek historian known as the "father of history" (ca. 484-ca. 425 B.C.E.). His Histories enunciated the Greek view of a fundamental divide between East and West, culminating in the Greco-Persian Wars of 490-480 B.C.E. |  | 0 |
| 10820163642 | Bhagavad Gita | A great Hindu epic text, part of the much larger Mahabharata, which affirms the performance of caste duties as a path to religious liberation. |  | 1 |
| 10820163650 | Filial piety | The honoring of one's ancestors and parents, a key element of Confucianism. |  | 2 |
| 10820163651 | Greek rationalism | A secularizing system of scientific and philosophic thought that developed in classical Greece in the period 600 to 300 B.C.E.; it emphasized the power of education and human reason to understand the world in nonreligious terms. | 3 | |
| 10820163654 | Jesus of Nazareth | The prophet/god of Christianity(ca. 4 B.C.E.-ca. 30 C.E.). | 4 | |
| 10820163666 | Theravada | "The Teaching of the Elders," the early form of Buddhism according to which the Buddha as a wise teacher but not divine and which emphasizes practices rather than beliefs. |  | 5 |
| 10820163669 | Warring States Period | Period in China from 403 to 221 B.C.E. that was typified by disorder and political chaos. | 6 | |
| 10820163671 | Zarathustra | A Persian prophet, traditionally dated to the sixth or seventh century B.C.E. (but perhaps much older), who founded Zoroastrianism. |  | 7 |
| 10820163676 | Kshatriya | The Indian social class of warriors and rulers. |  | 8 |
| 10820163679 | scholar-gentry class | A term used to describe members of China's landowning families, reflecting their wealth from the land and the privilege that they derived as government officials. |  | 9 |
| 10820163680 | Sudra | The lowest Indian social class of varna; regarded as servants of their social betters; eventually included peasant farmers | | 10 |
| 10820163682 | Untouchables | An Indian social class that emerged below the Sudras and whose members performed the most unclean and polluting work. | | 11 |
| 10820163683 | Vaisya | The Indian social class that was originally defined as farmers but eventually comprised merchants. |  | 12 |
| 10820163685 | Bantu expansion | Gradual migration of peoples from their homeland in what is now southern Nigeria and the Cameroons into most of eastern and southern Africa. The agricultural techniques and ironworking technology of these farmers gave them an advantage over the gathering and hunting peoples they encountered. |  | 13 |
| 10820163686 | Coptic Christianity | The Egyptian variety of Christianity, distinctive in its belief that Christ has only a single, divine nature. |  | 14 |
