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| 65571584 | Pax Romana | 27 BCE-180 CE, a period of peace and prosperity in the Roman Empire. | 0 | |
| 65571585 | Silk Roads | established during the Han dynasty, flourished during the Pax Mongolica. | 1 | |
| 65571586 | Punic Wars | 246-146 BCE, conflict between Rome and Carthage for domination of the Mediterranean. Rome won, Carthage was sacked. | 2 | |
| 65571587 | Pelopponesian War | 400s BCE, civil conflict in the Greek world that was basically Athens versus Sparta. A contest for hegemony caused by tensions over the Delian League. Sparta won, although conflicts continued. | 3 | |
| 65571588 | Persian Wars | 500-479 BCE, conflict between Ionian Greek colonies backed by Athens and the Achaemenid empire, led by Cyrus, Darius, Cambyses and Xerxes. Greece won at the battle of Marathon. | 4 | |
| 65571589 | Qin Shihuangdi | ruled 221-210 BCE, First Emporer of China. Standardized the script, built defensive walls, and enforced Legalist policies. | 5 | |
| 65571590 | Han Wudi | ruled 141-87 BCE, the Martial Emporer. Established the Confucian education system and expanded into northern Vietnam and Korea and central Asia. | 6 | |
| 65571591 | Ashoka | ruled 297-232 BCE, the high point of the Mauryan empire. Created the rock and pillar edicts, taxed, centralized, and encouraged Buddhism. | 7 | |
| 65571592 | Chandragupta Maurya | ruled 321-297 BCE, founder of the Mauryan empire. Unified most of India, advised by Kautalya, ruled according the the Arthashastra. | 8 | |
| 65571593 | Chandra Gupta | ruled 320-330 CE, founder of the Gupta empire. | 9 | |
| 65571594 | Gupta | 320-550 CE, second classical empire in India. | 10 | |
| 65571595 | Mauryan | 321-185 CE, first classical empire in India. | 11 | |
| 65571596 | Socrates | 470-399 BCE, first major Greek philosopher, interested in ethics and morality. Views recorded by Plato. | 12 | |
| 65571597 | Plato | 430-347 BCE, second major Greek philosopher, created the theory of Forms or Ideas, wrote The Republic. | 13 | |
| 65571598 | Aristotle | 384-322 BCE, third major Greek philosopher, believed in the power of reason and the senses, wrote extensively on science. | 14 | |
| 65571599 | ren | kindness, respect, humanity. | 15 | |
| 65571600 | li | propriety | 16 | |
| 65571601 | xiao | filial piety | 17 | |
| 65571602 | nirvana | escape from reincarnation, spiritual independence. | 18 | |
| 65571603 | moksha | escape from reincarnation, spiritual union. | 19 | |
| 65571604 | Old Kingdom | 2660-2160 BCE, founded by Menes, built pyramids. | 20 | |
| 65571605 | New Kingdom | 1550-1070 BCE, restored power ater Hyksos, returned to prosperity, restored dominance in Nubia. | 21 | |
| 65571606 | Middle Kingdom | 2040-1640 BCE, re-stabilized Egypt, invaded by the Hyksos. | 22 | |
| 65571607 | Nestorian Christianity | branch of Christianity popular in Asia which emphasized the human nature of Christ. | 23 | |
| 65571608 | Theme system | Byzantine system of provinces ruled by generals, who recruited armies of peasants in exchange for land grants. | 24 | |
| 65571609 | mamluks | Abbasid slave soldiers who converted to Islam, eventually became a powerful military caste and governed Egypt from 1250 to 1517. | 25 | |
| 65571610 | Sunni Islam | the most popular branch of Islam; belief in the legitimacy of the early caliphs. | 26 | |
| 65571611 | Shia Islam | minority branch of Islam; belief that only a descendant of Ali can be caliph. | 27 | |
| 65571612 | Theravada (Hinayana) Buddhism | a less popular branch of Buddhism, emphasizes a strict, individual path, popular in southeast Asia. | 28 | |
| 65571613 | Mahayana Buddhism | a more popular and more metaphysical northern branch of Buddhism. | 29 | |
| 65571614 | Toltecs | 950-1150, Central American society that migrated from northwestern Mexico. Precursors to the Aztecs, or Mexica. | 30 | |
| 65571615 | junzi | Confucius's "superior individuals," well-educated, altruistic, and careful. | 31 | |
| 65794789 | Hundred Years' War | 1337-1453. France won. | 32 | |
| 65794790 | Crusades | 1095-1204 Led to Renaissance | 33 | |
| 65794791 | Sargon of Akkad | first Sumerian king-conqueror. | 34 | |
| 65794792 | Assyrians | 1300-612 BCE, had an empire in SW Asia and Egypt. | 35 | |
| 65794793 | Zaibatsu | 1890s Japanese industrial clique. | 36 | |
| 65794794 | Big Stick policy | describes Roosevelt corollary, idea of threatening military force while negotiating peacefully. | 37 | |
| 65794795 | Open Door Policy | 1899 policy that all European nations, and the US could trade with China. | 38 | |
| 65794796 | deterrence policy | the idea that knowing the consequences, like MAD, would prevent military action. | 39 | |
| 65794797 | Eisenhower doctrine | countries can ask for help from US if threatened, especially by communism. | 40 | |
| 65794798 | Agricultural Revolution | 1700s movement in England that led to the Industrial Revolution. Enclosure, crop rotation, and mechanization were major parts. | 41 | |
| 65794799 | Gospel of Wealth | 1889- Andrew Carnegie's idea of philanthropy, the rich helping the poor. | 42 | |
| 65794800 | Black Death | 1300s | 43 | |
| 67656937 | Osman Bey | founder of the Ottoman empire | 44 | |
| 67656938 | 1453-1922 | ottoman empire | 45 | |
| 67656939 | Babur | founder of the Mughal empire | 46 | |
| 67656940 | Akbar | high point of the Mughal, tolerant | 47 | |
| 67656941 | purdah | womens' confinement in the home | 48 | |
| 67656942 | Taj Mahal | mughal architecture, islamic influence | 49 | |
| 67656943 | muslim gunpowder empires | 1450-1750, ottoman mughal safavid | 50 | |
| 67656944 | english civil war | parliament vs. king, 1640s | 51 | |
| 67656945 | Ivan III (the great) | tsar after golden horde | 52 | |
| 67656946 | Ivan the terrible | expanded russia | 53 | |
| 67656947 | cossacks | russian pioneers into new territories | 54 | |
| 67656948 | boyars | russian nobles | 55 | |
| 67656949 | mikhail romanov | first romanov tsar, 1613 | 56 | |
| 67656950 | peter the great | tsar who westernized | 57 | |
| 67656951 | catherine the grreat | expansionist, westernizing, enlightened | 58 | |
| 67656952 | matteo ricci | jesuit in china | 59 | |
| 67656953 | john calvin | predestination, puritans | 60 | |
| 67656954 | jean jacques rousseau | social contract | 61 | |
| 67656955 | adam smith | capitalism capitalism capitalism! | 62 | |
| 67656956 | domestsic system | like putting-out, lost to industrial revolution | 63 | |
| 67656957 | factors of production | land labor capital entrepeneurship | 64 | |
| 67656958 | tokugawa shogunate | 1603-1868 | 65 | |
| 67656959 | meiji restoration | 1868 on | 66 | |
| 67656960 | sino-japanese war | 1895 control of korea | 67 | |
| 67656961 | russo-japanese war | 1905 influence in korea | 68 | |
| 67656962 | muhammad ali | industrializing ruler of egypt | 69 | |
| 67728080 | Tanzimet era | 1840s-1870s | 70 | |
| 67728081 | Tanzimet reforms | facilitated trade | 71 | |
| 67728082 | Young turks | more failed reform | 72 | |
| 67728083 | extraterritoriality | granted to Europeans in Ottoman Empire and China | 73 | |
| 67728084 | Opium Wars | Ming China, 1840s-1850s | 74 | |
| 67728085 | Treaty of Nanking | opened ports, gave Hong Kong to British, ended Opium Wars | 75 | |
| 67728086 | Congress of Vienna | After Napoleon | 76 | |
| 67728087 | Berlin Conference | dividing up Africa | 77 | |
| 67728088 | Miguel de Hidalgo | Catholic priest, led the Mexican struggle for independence in 1810 | 78 | |
| 67728089 | Napoleon III | interfered in the Mexican revolution in 1863 | 79 | |
| 67728090 | Porfirio Diaz | president of Mexico, repressive dictatorship led to the Mexican revolution | 80 | |
| 67728091 | Mexican Revolution | Pancho Villa, Emiliano Zapato, Ponciano Arriaga- land reforms- tierra y libertad | 81 | |
| 67728092 | Benito Juarez | economic growth, constitution of 1857, La Reforma | 82 | |
| 67728093 | Simon Bolivar | 1800s revolutionary in South America, wanted to unite the region | 83 | |
| 67728094 | Gran Colombia | Simon Bolivar's failed conglomeration of Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela | 84 | |
| 67728095 | Taiping Revolution | 1850s, led by Jesus's little brother (or so he thought), advocated social reform, land redistribution, and women's rights. | 85 | |
| 67728096 | self-strengthening movement | encouraged western investments and modernization in Qing China, but crushed by the Boxer Rebellion. | 86 | |
| 67728097 | Boxer Rebellion | anti-foreign rebellion led by crazy Empress Cixi and the Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists. Seriously. | 87 | |
| 67728098 | Revolution of 1905 | forced tsar Nicholas II to allow the Duma, which he abolished after a few weeks, inciting planning for further rebellion. | 88 | |
| 67728099 | Boers | Dutch farmers in South Africa | 89 | |
| 67728100 | Great Trek | British forced boers into the interior of South Africa, where they clashed with Bantu people including the Zulu. | 90 | |
| 67728101 | Boer War | culmination of tension between British and Boers at turn of 20th century. | 91 | |
| 67728102 | Mexican-American War | Mexico didn't want us to take Texas. | 92 | |
| 67728103 | Spanish American War | U.S. ship exploded in Havana harbor, but more about U.S. concerns about interests in Cuba after independence form Spain in 1895. the U.S. got the Philippines and control of Cuba. | 93 | |
| 67728104 | Mehmed the Conqueror | ottoman who captured Constantinope in 1453. | 94 | |
| 67728105 | Suleyman the Magnificent | 1500s Ottoman who made laws, laid siege to Vienna, and made the ottomans a naval power. | 95 | |
| 67728106 | Shah Ismail | founder of Safavid Empire, proponent of Twelver Shiism | 96 | |
| 67728107 | qizilbash | Twelver Shiite community | 97 | |
| 67728108 | Babur | founder of the Mughal empire, wanted to control a lot of land | 98 | |
| 67728109 | Akbar | ruled 1556-1605, high point of Mughal empire, tolerant, centralizing | 99 | |
| 67728110 | Aurangzeb | Mughal Muslim, intolerant, expansionist, faced rebellions and decline | 100 |
