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| 3178699549 | Aryans | The Vedic indic people who migrated into the Indian subcontinent | 0 | |
| 3178704183 | Ascetic/Asceticism | severe self-discipline | 1 | |
| 3178706841 | Bearing Land Bridge | a hypothetical bridge spanning the Bering Strait that connects the eastern and western hemispheres | 2 | |
| 3178714751 | Cataracts | waterfalls on the Nile; a large waterfall | 3 | |
| 3178715567 | City-state | a city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state | 4 | |
| 3178717727 | Cuneiform | the wedge-shaped characters used in the ancient writing systems of mesopotamia | 5 | |
| 3178720091 | Dravidians | native people of india who were driven into central india by the aryans | 6 | |
| 3178722196 | the epic of gilgamesh | the first epic poem; came from mesopotamia | 7 | |
| 3178723119 | hammurabi | sixth king of Babylon and creator of Hammurabi's law code | 8 | |
| 3178725389 | harappans | one of the first planned cities of ancient india, alongside mohenjo-daro | 9 | |
| 3178728375 | hieroglyphics | a stylized picture of an object representing a word, syllable, or sound | 10 | |
| 3178730170 | jati | subclasses of the hindu caste system | 11 | |
| 3178732551 | loess | fertile silt in eastern china and American midwest | 12 | |
| 3178733712 | menes | an ancient Egyptian pharaoh who untied upper and lower egypt | 13 | |
| 3178735952 | metallurgy | the branch of science concerned with the properties of metals and their production | 14 | |
| 3178737240 | mummification | the process of preserving a corpse | 15 | |
| 3178738766 | neolithic | of, or relating to the new stone age | 16 | |
| 3178740392 | paleolithic | of, or relating to the old stone age | 17 | |
| 3178742606 | pastoral nomads (pastoralists) | sheep/cattle farmers | 18 | |
| 3178743561 | polytheism | the belief in or worship of more than one god | 19 | |
| 3178744623 | rosetta stone | a stone found in Egypt with Egyptian and greek writings on it | 20 | |
| 3178745793 | sargon of akkad | a semitic akkadian emperor who united city-states of sumer. started the akkadian empire | 21 | |
| 3178752622 | shang | first major dynasty of china (1600-1050 BCE) | 22 | |
| 3178755078 | stratified patriarchal society | a form of civilization in which social classes exist within a male-lead population | 23 | |
| 3178761935 | varna | each of the 4 hindu castes- Brahmin, Kshatriya, vaishya, shudra | 24 | |
| 3178764276 | vedas | older, sacred, hindu texts; the most ancient hindu scriptures, written in early sanskrit | 25 | |
| 3178766627 | zhou | second major Chinese dynasty | 26 | |
| 3178767414 | abraham | first of the three biblical patriarchs. traditional founder of the Hebrew nation | 27 | |
| 3178769183 | ahura mazda | the creator and sole god of Zoroastrianism (the good god) | 28 | |
| 3178770490 | ancestor veneration | the practice of worshiping one's ancestors | 29 | |
| 3178771767 | aristotle | a greek philiosopher and scientist born in macedonia | 30 | |
| 3178773014 | athens | one of the major city-states of ancient greek | 31 | |
| 3178773741 | atman | hindu soul | 32 | |
| 3178774350 | analects | Confucian texts | 33 | |
| 3178774944 | ban zhou | first known female Chinese historian. she completed the book of han | 34 | |
| 3178778626 | brahman | the ultimate reality underlying all phenomena | 35 | |
| 3178779958 | brahmins | highest hindu caste (priests and scholars) | 36 | |
| 3178782837 | civil service exam | the exam issued in ancient china to determine whether citizens were worthy of holding positions as government officials | 37 | |
| 3178784889 | Confucianism | a system of philosophical and ethical teachings founded by confucious | 38 | |
| 3178787531 | constantine | the fist Christian emperor of the roman empire | 39 | |
| 3178788651 | dao | "the way" (Daoism) the absolute principle underlying the universe | 40 | |
| 3178790224 | daodejing | daoist book; the central Taoist text, ascribed to Lao-tzu, the traditional founder of taoism | 41 | |
| 3178793308 | daoism | a Chinese philosophy based on the writings of Lao-tzu, advocating humility and religious piety | 42 | |
| 3178795646 | filial piety | respect for one's ancestors, commonly seen in confucianism | 43 | |
| 3178797083 | five pillars | five basic acts of faith in islam. shada (belief in allah as the only god and Muhammad as his messenger), salat (prayer), zakat (almsgiving), sawm (fasting during Ramadan), hajj (pilgrimage to mecca) | 44 | |
| 3178803076 | five relationships | ruler and subject, father and son, elder brother to younger brother, husband to wife, friend to friend | 45 | |
| 3178805409 | feudalism | a form of government in which nobility held all the lands and vassals paid allegiance to the nobility while the peasants had to live on the lord's land and give him homage and a share of their produce. used in medieval europe and feudal japan | 46 | |
| 3178810239 | han fei | founder of legalism | 47 | |
| 3178811029 | islam | the religion of the muslims, a monotheistic faith regarded as revealed through Muhammad as the prophet of allah | 48 | |
| 3178813459 | israel | one of the kingdoms of judaism | 49 | |
| 3178814828 | jesus | son of god (Christianity) | 50 | |
| 3178815624 | judaism | monotheistic faith of the Hebrews (god's chosen people) | 51 | |
| 3178816829 | karma | hindu principle of reward/punishment; good deeds constitute good karma, bad deeds constitute bad karma; the more good karma you have, the higher up in the caste system you will be born into in your next life | 52 | |
| 3178821328 | laozi | founder of daoism | 53 | |
| 3178821939 | laws of manu | a hindu text on early indian social structure | 54 | |
| 3178823050 | legalism | a philosophy that teaches strict adherence to laws rather than morals | 55 | |
| 3178824651 | mahabharta | one of the two major Sanskrit epics of india | 56 | |
| 3178826106 | mahayana | one of the major schools of Buddhism practiced mainly in east asia and some areas surrounding it. the later form of Buddhism, after theravada | 57 | |
| 3178845854 | mandate of heaven | Chinese belief that the ruler has a divine backing; alternatively, if the ruler is bad, he no longer has divine backing | 58 | |
| 3178848187 | moksha | release from the cycle of rebirth (similar to nirvana, but in hinduism | 59 | |
| 3178850180 | moses | prophet in Abrahamic religions who brought the jews out of Egypt and wrote the ten commandments | 60 | |
| 3178852017 | new testament | the second part of the holy bible in which includes the four gospels and the teachings of jesus | 61 | |
| 3178854578 | nirvana | release from the cycle of rebirth (similar to moksha, but in Buddhism) a transcendent state in which there is no suffering, desire, nor sense of self | 62 | |
| 3178865178 | persia | an empire created by cyrus the great in 550 BCE | 63 | |
| 3178866605 | plato | greek philosopher | 64 | |
| 3178867631 | ramayana | a hindu epic, one of the great pieces of hindu literature | 65 | |
| 3178869392 | rationalism | greek philosophy centered on using evidence and reasoning to understand everyday life | 66 | |
| 3178871670 | ren | in Confucianism; the idea of virtue | 67 | |
| 3178873802 | the republic | a state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representative and which has and elected president rather than a monarch (rome) | 68 | |
| 3184515949 | saint paul | an apostle who taught the gospel of christ | 69 | |
| 3184517975 | samsara | the cycle of birth, life, and death (reincarnation) | 70 | |
| 3184520505 | shiva | the destroyer, dancing god of creation and destruction | 71 | |
| 3184525124 | Siddhartha gautama | founder of Buddhism; buddha | 72 | |
| 3184527653 | socrates | classical greek philosopher, one of the founders of western philosophy | 73 | |
| 3184530938 | theodosius | byzantine emperor who banned all pagan practices | 74 | |
| 3184535549 | theravada | form of Buddhism focusing on the teaching of the elders; goal is to become bodhistava | 75 | |
| 3184540614 | ten commandments | a set of 10 divine rules in the Christian bible and Hebrew bible | 76 | |
| 3184544693 | upanishads | a hindu sacred text which explains the vedas | 77 | |
| 3184547691 | vishnu | the hindu preserver | 78 | |
| 3184549805 | yahweh | Hebrew term for "god" | 79 | |
| 3184551935 | yin and yang | a doaist symbol representing the opposing forces of nature | 80 | |
| 3184554308 | zoroaster | founder of zoroastrianism | 81 | |
| 3184556225 | zoroastrianism | first monotheistic religion founded by Zoroaster in persia | 82 | |
| 3184558481 | alexander the great | Macedonian commander who was devoted to spreading Hellenistic culture | 83 | |
| 3184561346 | ashoka | mauryan emperor that converted to Buddhism and was committed to spread it throughout the indian border and beyond | 84 | |
| 3184567787 | augustus (Octavian) | founder of the roman empire | 85 | |
| 3184569405 | axum | a town in norther Ethiopia which was once a kingdom which replaced meroe | 86 | |
| 3184573133 | bantu | a group of people from Africa who migrated eastward out of Africa and helped spread and bring new cultures to other parts of the world | 87 | |
| 3184578476 | byzantium | the eastern half of the roman empire, its capital is constantinople | 88 | |
| 3184582196 | carthage | a civilization in north America which was the main enemy of the romans in the early years of their empire; the romans eventually destroyed carthage | 89 | |
| 3184588391 | constantine | the first emperor to convert to Christianity and made it the empire's official faith | 90 | |
| 3184593993 | constantinople | the old capital of the byzantine empire, now Istanbul, the capital of turkey | 91 | |
| 3184597248 | council of elders | a group of 28 men over the age of 60 who made decisions about government in sparta | 92 | |
| 3184601467 | cyrus | a famous monarch in Persia; e allowed those exiled in Babylon to return to their homeland, and rebuild the temple in jerusalem | 93 | |
| 3184607616 | darius I | the third ruler of the Persian empire; he established a system of provinces and tributes, began the construction of Persepolis; he helped expand Persian empire to the east (Pakistan) and west (northern Greece) | 94 | |
| 3184616583 | democracy | political system which is ruled by the people | 95 | |
| 3184619118 | Hellenistic age | (323-30 BCE) when greek cultural influence and power was at its peak; it experienced prosperity and progess in arts, literature, theatre, architecture, music, math, philosophy, and science | 96 | |
| 3184648704 | helot | state owned slaves, the most abused and exploited population on the greek mainland | 97 | |
| 3184652402 | herodotus | greek historian that said "there is no nation which so readily adapts foreign customs. they have taken the dress of the medes and in war they wear the Egyptian breastplate. as soon as they hear any of luxury they instantly make it their own" | 98 | |
| 3184666314 | hoplite | heavily armed infantrymen in ancient greece | 99 | |
| 3184669393 | igbo | people whose lands were east of the niger river in what is now southern Nigeria in w. Africa; they built a complex society that rejected the kinship and centeralized statehood and relied on other institutions to provide social coherence | 100 | |
| 3184679702 | mandala | mauryan political philosophy ("the enemy of my enemy is my friend") OR a | 101 | |
| 3184685915 | meroe | capital of nubia | 102 | |
| 3184687949 | patricians | roman upper class | 103 | |
| 3184689667 | pax romana | roman peace, important because it was a time of relative peace within the roman empire | 104 | |
| 3184693374 | pericles | statesman who dominated board of generals for 30 years; glorified Athens to an extent in which it could be seen as a cause of the Peloponnesian war | 105 | |
| 3184701830 | persepolis | ceremonial capital of the Persian empire | 106 | |
| 3184704184 | Persian wars | war in which Persia attacked Greece, and although outnumbered the greeks won, the effect was the golden age of athens | 107 | |
| 3184709862 | plebian | roman lower class | 108 | |
| 3184711646 | polis | greek city state | 109 | |
| 3184712927 | punic wars | the war fought between the romans and carthage | 110 | |
| 3184714640 | qin | the first unified dynasty of china, founded by qin shi huang | 111 |
