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| 6751974869 | vedas | religious texts of hinduism | 0 | |
| 6751980100 | polis | a greek city state | 1 | |
| 6751988728 | brahmin | priest caste | 2 | |
| 6751991028 | huns | nomadic group that forced the goths and vandals into rome | 3 | |
| 6751995457 | monsoon | seasonal wind | 4 | |
| 6751997382 | dynasty | a series of rulers from the same family | 5 | |
| 6751999568 | heiroglyphics | egyptian writing system; based on pictographs | 6 | |
| 6752002479 | cuneiform | writing system of mesopotamia; used wedges | 7 | |
| 6752008106 | covenant | agreement; the basis of judeo-christian religion (between Abraham and God) | 8 | |
| 6752016108 | oracle bones | used by shang dynasty to get messages from the gods | 9 | |
| 6752020097 | the analects | writings of confucius | 10 | |
| 6752027246 | steppe | dry grassland (like where mongols live) | 11 | |
| 6752029222 | Yahweh | jewish word for god | 12 | |
| 6752032395 | aristotle | believed in reason and observation | 13 | |
| 6752034844 | yin and yang | chinese belief about the forces that bring balance to life | 14 | |
| 6752043186 | nirvana | heaven for buddhists; ends cycle of reincarnation | 15 | |
| 6752046827 | filial piety | in chinese tradition; respect for elders | 16 | |
| 6752050017 | moksha | heaven for hindus; ends cycle of reincarnation | 17 | |
| 6752052579 | karma | in hinduism; the belief that good or bad deeds have consequences | 18 | |
| 6752058725 | alexander the great | macedonian king who conquered land from greece to india and caused hellenism | 19 | |
| 6752062338 | ziggurat | mesopotamian temples | 20 | |
| 6752063886 | disciple | one of the followers of jesus | 21 | |
| 6752066282 | zoroastrianism | first monotheistic religion; had duality; religion of the persian empire | 22 | |
| 6752076309 | matrilineal | social system through which inheritance is traced through the mother | 23 | |
| 6752084300 | law of the twelve tables | codified legal system in rome | 24 | |
| 6752087165 | mandate of heaven | the right for chinese emperors to rule is ordained by the gods (convenient excuse to overthrow someone) | 25 | |
| 6752098845 | geocentric theory | belief that earth is at the center of the universe pre scientific revolution | 26 | |
| 6752104407 | animism | belief that spirits inhabit nature | 27 | |
| 6752105981 | sati | practice of hindu upperclass women to throw themselves on the funeral pyre of their husbands | 28 | |
| 6752114046 | hellenism | spread of greek culture, art, and influence | 29 | |
| 6752117407 | diaspora | the exile of a racial or ethnic group from their homeland | 30 | |
| 6752126456 | torah | the first 5 books of jewish scripture | 31 | |
| 6752136454 | pope | head of roman catholic church | 32 | |
| 6752141495 | neolithic revolution | the invention of farming and domestication of animals | 33 | |
| 6752150487 | stoicism | hellenistic philosophy that focused on discipline and helping others | 34 | |
| 6752158740 | dharma | the position in the hindu caste system that was determined by birth | 35 | |
| 6752165340 | pastoralism | the practice of herding | 36 | |
| 6752170893 | pax romana | time of roman peace and prosperity in the first two centuries CE | 37 | |
| 6752175855 | untouchables | the group outside of the hindu caste system that do menial tasks | 38 | |
| 6752186263 | syncretism | a blend of two or more cultural traditions | 39 | |
| 6752188474 | hadith | collection of sayings of mohammed | 40 | |
| 6752192002 | magna carta | english legal document that granted rights to nobles over the monarchy | 41 | |
| 6752196601 | harem | household of wives and concubines in the middle east, africa, or asia | 42 | |
| 6752205127 | daimyo | feudal japanese lord in charge of samurai | 43 | |
| 6752211647 | mita (part 1) | labor system where communities in the andes share work for their ruler (rotating basis) | 44 | |
| 6752240269 | bakufu | military government in japan (emperor just a figurehead) | 45 | |
| 6752242055 | khan | mongol ruler | 46 | |
| 6752274209 | astrolabe | navigation instrument invented my islamic scholars | 47 | |
| 6752278018 | serf | a peasant who is bound to the land they work on | 48 | |
| 6752281886 | neo-confucianism | blend of buddhism and confucianism during song | 49 | |
| 6752291073 | feudalism | a political, economic, and social structure between a lord and a vassal in exchange for protection | 50 | |
| 6752296201 | kowtow | ritual required by the chinese (tang dynasty) to trade with them | 51 | |
| 6752300211 | caravel | small ship used by columbus and other spanish and portugese expeditions | 52 | |
| 6752306538 | stateless society | a society based on kinship groups rather than centralized rule | 53 | |
| 6752310853 | quipu | system of knots used by the inca for record keeping | 54 | |
| 6752313938 | manorialism | self-sufficient estates in medieval europe | 55 | |
| 6752322389 | zakat | the third pillar of islam; a tax that goes to charity | 56 | |
| 6752324385 | dhimmi | "people of the book" namely christians and jews who received protection in islamic society | 57 | |
| 6752333057 | minaret | a tower on a mosque | 58 | |
| 6752334624 | lateen sails | triangular sails that made ships more maneuverable | 59 | |
| 6752336756 | abacus | an ancient chinese counting device | 60 | |
| 6752339777 | sultan | islamic leader | 61 | |
| 6752344626 | gothic architecture | twelfth century european architecture style feature flying buttresses, pointed arches, and stained glass | 62 | |
| 6752357208 | calpulli | clans that provided the aztecs with soldiers and labor | 63 | |
| 6752365104 | toltecs | central american society; used tribute system to rule | 64 | |
| 6752413809 | ming dynasty | period 4: after yuan (mongols) Return to confucian values, civil service, discourage mongol culture Zheng He's voyages Overthrown by Qing | 65 | |
| 6752423931 | yuan dynasty | period 3: after song mongols (Kublai Khan) religious tolerance no confucian civil service (brought in mongols) overthrown by white lotus | 66 | |
| 6752440876 | mississippians | period 3: north american matrilineal built mounds | 67 | |
| 6752788500 | five pillars | 5 required practices of islam (charity, only one true god, pilgrimage to mecca, and fast during ramadan) | 68 | |
| 6752794915 | ayllus | in inca society, family groups that work together on projects | 69 | |
| 6752803777 | fief | a grant of land in medieval europe given for military or other service | 70 | |
| 6752806897 | vasssal | in medieval europe, a person who pledged military or other service to a lord in exchange for land | 71 | |
| 6752814362 | jihad | islamic holy war | 72 | |
| 6752814363 | junks | large chinese sailing ships designed for long distance travel (tang and song dynasties) | 73 | |
| 6752883076 | flying money | letters of credit instead of coins during Tang | 74 | |
| 6752921959 | shogun | military leader of japan under the bakufu | 75 | |
| 6752924096 | sufi mystics | help spread islam by appealing to rituals | 76 | |
| 6752940265 | bantu migrations | period 3: spread iron, bananas, and language | 77 | |
| 6752971292 | chinampa agriculture | used by the aztecs, it was floating rafts on the canals of tenochtitlan | 78 | |
| 6752980208 | bushi | regional japanese military leaders that ruled small kingdoms from fortresses (like a baron) | 79 | |
| 6752994390 | malay sailors | traveled by the indian ocean, colonized madagascar and introduced bananas | 80 | |
| 6752999699 | griots | storytellers of sub-saharan africa that carried vocal tradition | 81 | |
| 6753002746 | battle of tours | in 732, halted the progress of islam into europe | 82 | |
| 6753008320 | investiture | the right of monarchs to appoint church leaders | 83 | |
| 6753012320 | shariah | islamic law | 84 | |
| 6753017143 | sunni | the largest branch of islam, believes muslim community should select leaders | 85 | |
| 6753020445 | shiite | believes leaders must be descendants of mohammad | 86 | |
| 6753025305 | sunni/shiite split | occurred over succession battle of mohammad | 87 | |
| 6753028852 | caliph | chief islamic political and religious leader | 88 | |
| 6753034089 | scholar-gentry | the chinese class of well educated men and bureaucrats | 89 | |
| 6753036944 | bushido | the honor code of the samurai | 90 | |
| 6753040992 | uma | community of muslim believers | 91 | |
| 6753047384 | quran | the holy book of islam | 92 | |
| 6753049971 | dar al-islam | the political and religious unity of the muslim world | 93 | |
| 6753052636 | sepukku | japanese ritual suicide | 94 | |
| 6753054930 | samurai | military class in japan | 95 | |
| 6753063023 | pax mongolia | from 1250-1350 when the mongols secured trade routes | 96 | |
| 6753067754 | hajj | the pilgrimage to mecca | 97 | |
| 6753070999 | shogunate | rule of the shoguns | 98 | |
| 6753072837 | shinto | traditional japanese religion based on ancestor veneration and the spirits of nature | 99 | |
| 6753077543 | mamluks | the Turkic military slaves in the abbasid army | 100 | |
| 6753091682 | mercantilism | a european economic policy that obtained all the wealth possible from colonies (they had a monopoly on exports from colonies) | 101 | |
| 6753109433 | period 1 | prehistory-600 BCE | 102 | |
| 6753114033 | period 2 | 600 BCE-600 CE | 103 | |
| 6753115919 | period 3 | 600-1450 | 104 | |
| 6753121408 | period 4 | 1450-1750 | 105 | |
| 6753123255 | period 5 | 1750-1900 | 106 | |
| 6753126392 | period 6 | 1900-present | 107 | |
| 6753130209 | scientific revolution | european intellectual movement in the seventeenth century that established the basis for modern science | 108 | |
| 6753139202 | parliamentary monarchy | a monarchy whose power is limited by a democratically elected parliament | 109 | |
| 6753146314 | enlightenment | a philosophical movement in eighteenth century europe that was based on reason and the concept that education and training could improve human society | 110 | |
| 6753154123 | viceroyalty | a political unit ruled by a viceroy that was the basis of organization of the Spanish colonies | 111 | |
| 6753158624 | encomienda | european colonists forced native americans to work on agricultural work, similar to serfdom | 112 | |
| 6753168801 | devshirme | ottoman empire took christian boys and drafted them into the army (janissaries) and other service | 113 | |
| 6753179495 | protestant reformation | led by Martin Luther that wanted to reform church corruption | 114 | |
| 6753185168 | nation-state | a sovereign state whose people share a common ethnicity and identity | 115 | |
| 6753192964 | peninsulares | born in spain or portugal, they were at the top of the latin american social heirarchy | 116 | |
| 6753197662 | creoles | born in latin america to european parents | 117 | |
| 6753204557 | taj mahal | a tomb built for the wife of a mughal emperor | 118 | |
| 6753206777 | adam smith | invented capitalism | 119 | |
| 6753208596 | laissez-faire | government should not interfere or regulate businesses | 120 | |
| 6753214027 | philosophes | french enlightenment thinkers | 121 | |
| 6753217596 | mualto | mixed african and european descent | 122 | |
| 6753218974 | mestizo | mixed latin american and european descent | 123 | |
| 6753223315 | qing dynasty | period 4 last dynasty manchu opium wars taiping and boxer rebellions | 124 | |
| 6753230512 | boyars | russian nobility | 125 | |
| 6753236935 | equestrians | really really rich roman social class (like super rich) | 126 | |
| 6753241533 | helots | spartan slaves | 127 | |
| 6753247487 | patricians | artistocrats in rome | 128 | |
| 6753247488 | plebians | peasants in rome | 129 | |
| 6753251492 | tribunes | elected to represent plebians | 130 | |
| 6753255798 | latifundia | large farm in rome run by equestrians | 131 | |
| 6753265573 | consuls | military leaders (2x) of rome | 132 | |
| 6753270451 | ashoka | leader of mauryan dynasty, converted to buddhism | 133 | |
| 6753274481 | rock and pillar edicts | codified laws of mauryan dynasty | 134 | |
| 6753277743 | royal road | persian road system | 135 | |
| 6753279385 | caravanserai | caravan stop points set up by persian empire | 136 | |
| 6753282866 | eyes and ears of the king | persian spy system | 137 | |
| 6753289534 | treaty of tordeillas | divided up south america between portugal and spain to limit colonial conflict | 138 | |
| 6753295850 | predestination | by John Calvin, stated that people were determined by god from birth that they were going to hell | 139 | |
| 6753303851 | glorious revolution | William and Mary take the english crown peacefully and support democracy | 140 | |
| 6753311707 | hagia sofia | in istanbul, built by byzantines, but converted to a mosque under the ottomans | 141 | |
| 6753319853 | estate-general | legislative body in france (one estate from each social class) | 142 | |
| 6753323302 | tennis court oath | third estate demanded votes per member in estate-general and a constitution that limited kings power | 143 | |
| 6753357039 | self-strengthening movement | period 5: qing dynasty attempted industrialization by modernizing army, building railroads, and encouraging investment | 144 | |
| 6753366740 | queu | the long ponytail mandated by the manchus | 145 | |
| 6753369365 | cottage industry | pre-industrialization where people worked in their homes on highly specialized jobs | 146 | |
| 6753468402 | declaration of the rights of man | the french declaration of independence | 147 | |
| 6753476856 | declaration of the rights of women | written by Olmype de Gouges in response to the declaration of the rights of man | 148 | |
| 6753481659 | Karl Marx | inventor of communism | 149 | |
| 6753483983 | communism | political philosophy where the government controls the means of production | 150 | |
| 6753492585 | liberalism | political philosophy where civil rights, private property, and representative government are supported | 151 | |
| 6753500907 | guano | bird droppings used as fertilizer that was a major peruvian export | 152 | |
| 6753520511 | suez canal | connected the isthmus of egypt, opposed by mohammad ali jinnah | 153 | |
| 6753529563 | napoleonic code | codified laws by Napoleon (duh) | 154 | |
| 6753858897 | economic imperialism | control of a country's economy by the companies of another nation | 155 | |
| 6753871116 | spheres of influence | divisions of a country in which a foreign country enjoys economic privileges (ex: Hong Kong) | 156 | |
| 6753897536 | bourgeoisie | in France, the class of merchants and artisans who were members of the Third Estate and initiators of the French Revolution; in Marxist theory, a term referring to factory owners. | 157 | |
| 6753906024 | proletarian | in Marxist theory, the class of workers in an industrial society | 158 | |
| 6753913257 | conservatism | in nineteenth-century Europe, a movement that supported monarchies, aristocracies, and state-established churches | 159 | |
| 6753918214 | zaibatsu | large, family industrial companies created in Japan during the meiji restoration (ex: toyota) | 160 | |
| 6753933584 | tanzimat reforms | new law codes, reformed military, education, roads, canals, mail system | 161 | |
| 6754046366 | monroe doctrine | policy that declared that foreign powers were not allowed to interfere in the western hemisphere | 162 | |
| 6754061747 | Indian National Congress | political party that led the independence movement against great britain | 163 | |
| 6754061748 | Berlin Conference | european nations divided up africa | 164 | |
| 6754064406 | Congress of Berlin | european nations divided up the baltic states | 165 | |
| 6754090879 | boxer rebellion | revolt against foreign influence in China | 166 | |
| 6754094076 | taiping rebellion | revolt against manchu emperors of qing dynasty | 167 | |
| 6754099925 | sepoy mutiny | revolt of Indian soldiers against the British; caused by rubbing pig and cow grease on muslim and hindu soldiers guns | 168 | |
| 6754115342 | young turks | organization that believed in turkification, founded in the Ottoman Empire; its goal was to restore the constitution of 1876 and to reform the empire. | 169 | |
| 6754138465 | boers | south africans of dutch descent | 170 | |
| 6754141426 | sepoys | south asian soldiers who served in the british army | 171 | |
| 6754163035 | revolution of 1905 | strikes by urban workers and peasants in Russia; prompted by shortages of food and by Russia's loss to Japan in 1905. | 172 | |
| 6754167941 | enclosure movement | the privitazation of land that caused many farmers to starve and led to increased urbanization. One of the causes of the industrial revolution | 173 | |
| 6754214826 | capital | the money and equipment needed to industrialize | 174 | |
| 6754217094 | reign of terror | the period of extreme violence during the french revolution | 175 | |
| 6754239608 | gran columbia | temporary government formed by Simon Bolivar during the latin american revolutions | 176 | |
| 6754266662 | treaty of nanking | ended the opium wars hong kong became british colony british extraterritoriality more ports opened besides canton | 177 | |
| 6754293961 | meij restoration | built a railroad abolished feudalism constitutional monarchy no samurai education conscription | 178 | |
| 6754311417 | pogrom | violence against jews in tsarist russia | 179 | |
| 6754315064 | sino-japanese war | war between japan and china to get control of korea (japan wins) | 180 | |
| 6754320970 | russo-japanese war | war between russia and japan over manchurian territory and russian railroad expansion (japan wins) | 181 | |
| 6754329877 | boer war | war between british and dutch regarding dutch independence in south africa (british win) | 182 | |
| 6754336303 | xhosa cattle killing | in response to british imperialism of south africa, millions of cattle killed resulting in famine | 183 | |
| 6754346464 | may fourth movement | protest in china against treaty of versailles and foreign influence | 184 | |
| 6754362692 | potsdam conference | a 1945 meeting of the leaders of Great Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union in which it was agreed that the Soviet Union would be given control of eastern Europe and that Germany would be divided into zones of occupation. set the stage for the cold war | 185 | |
| 6754411695 | yalta conference | Formed United Nations eventually Roosevelt wanted self-determination for baltic states but there were no assurances set the stage for cold war | 186 | |
| 6754458053 | cultural revolution | led by Mao and his Red Guards, went on purges of everything not communist | 187 | |
| 6754496079 | great leap forward | Organized peasants into communes Peasants not allowed to own land Those that protested were sent to "reeducation" camps or killed 20 million died from famines | 188 | |
| 6754512759 | spanish civil war | conflict from 1936 to 1939 that resulted in the installation of fascist dictator Francisco Franco as ruler of Spain; Franco's forces were backed by Germany and Italy, whereas the Soviet Union supported the opposing republican forces. | 189 | |
| 6754512784 | kabuki theater | a form of Japanese theater developed in the seventeenth century that features colorful scenery and costumes and an exaggerated style of acting. | 190 | |
| 6754542385 | iron curtain | a metaphorical description of the divide between the Communist East and Democratic Western Europe | 191 | |
| 6754557943 | fascism | a political movement that is characterized by extreme nationalism, one-party rule, and the denial of individual rights. | 192 | |
| 6757698749 | russification | an education program in tsarist russia that required non-Russians to speak only Russian and provided education only for those groups loyal to russia | 193 | |
| 6757700448 | mandate | a type of colony in which the government is overseen by another nation, as in the Middle Eastern mandates placed under European control after World War I. | 194 | |
| 6757701970 | marshall plan | US funding to rebuild europe after WW2 | 195 | |
| 6757704161 | world bank | an agency of the United Nations that offers loans to countries to promote trade and economic development. | 196 | |
| 6757705661 | world trade organization | an international organization begun in 1995 to promote and organize world trade. | 197 | |
| 6757706610 | international monetary fund | an international organization founded in 1944 to promote market economies and free trade. | 198 | |
| 6757712838 | european union | an organization designed to reduce trade barriers and promote economic unity in Europe; it was formed in 1993 to replace the European Community. | 199 | |
| 6757721642 | NAFTA | north american free trade agreement prohibits tariffs and other trade barriers between Mexico, the United States, and Canada | 200 | |
| 6757723664 | kuomindang | china's nationalist political party founded by Sun Yat-sen in 1912 | 201 | |
| 6757725172 | containment | cold war policy by the US that wanted to prevent the spread of communism | 202 | |
| 6757727078 | central powers | in WW1, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, the Ottoman Empire, and other nations who fought with them against the Allies | 203 | |
| 6757729267 | allied powers WW1 | Great Britain, France, Russia, the United States, and others that fought against the Central Powers | 204 | |
| 6757729268 | allied powers WW2 | Great Britain, France, the Soviet Union, and the United States, that fought against the Axis Powers | 205 | |
| 6757731281 | axis powers | germany, japan, and other countries that fought against the allies in WW2 | 206 | |
| 6757732873 | league of nations | international organization founded after WW1 to promote peace and cooperation among nations | 207 | |
| 6757734395 | OPEC | organization of petroleum exporting countries formed in I960 by oil-producing countries to regulate oil supplies and prices | 208 | |
| 6757737858 | five year plans | plans for industrial production first introduced to the Soviet Union in 1928 by Stalin; they succeeded in making the Soviet Union a major industrial power by the end of the 1930s. | 209 | |
| 6757739375 | appeasement | policy of great britain and france of making concessions | 210 | |
| 6757742658 | afrikaners | 211 |
