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| 85446477 | ziggurats | massive towers usually associated with mesopotamian temple complexes | 0 | |
| 85446478 | Hammurabi | leader of Babylon and developed law code | 1 | |
| 85446479 | Harappan Civilization | first civilization on Indian subcontinent in Indus River Valley, 2500 BCE | 2 | |
| 85446480 | phoenicians | sea faring civilization located on the shores of eastern Mediterranean | 3 | |
| 85446481 | Mandate of Heaven | divine source for political legitimacy of chinese rulers established by Zhou | 4 | |
| 85446482 | loess | fine grain soil in Ordos from central asia for sedentary farming communities | 5 | |
| 85446483 | yin and yang | every good comes with a bad | 6 | |
| 85446484 | Confucious | 6th century chinese philosopher | 7 | |
| 85446485 | Middle Kingdom | Huanghe to Yangtze river in china | 8 | |
| 85446486 | Shi huangdi | founder of Qin dynasty in 221 bce | 9 | |
| 85446487 | Han | overruled Qin in 202 | 10 | |
| 85446488 | Analects | Confucian docterine carefully recorded in a book | 11 | |
| 85446489 | laozi | Furthered ideas of Daoism in 5th century | 12 | |
| 85446490 | mean people | people who performed unskilled jobs with the lowest possible status in China | 13 | |
| 85446491 | sanskrit | sacred and classical Indian language | 14 | |
| 85446492 | untouchables | lowest caste in Indian society, performing worst jobs | 15 | |
| 85446493 | vedas | aryan hymns written down in the 6th century bce in sacred books | 16 | |
| 85446494 | upanishads | later books of the vedas used to restore religious authority to the Brahmans through sophisticated and sublime ideas | 17 | |
| 85446495 | chandragupta maurya | founder of Maurya dynasty and 1st Indian empire and central government since Harappan | 18 | |
| 85446496 | ashoka | completed Indian conquests converted to buddhism and spread it | 19 | |
| 85446497 | dharma | caste position and career determined by birth | 20 | |
| 85446498 | kautilya | political advisor to chandragupta believed in scientific application of warfare | 21 | |
| 85446499 | gurus | Brahmans who were teachers for the princes | 22 | |
| 85446500 | nirvana | buddhist state of enlightenment | 23 | |
| 85446501 | cyrus the great | established Persian Empire by 550 bce | 24 | |
| 85446502 | pericles | athenian political leader 5th century bce | 25 | |
| 85446503 | peloponnesian wars | 432- 404 bce between athens and sparta | 26 | |
| 85446504 | phillip 2 of Macedon | ruled macedon from 359 to 336 bce and conquered greece | 27 | |
| 85446505 | Hellenistic period | culture associated with Greek influence under the rule of Macedon | 28 | |
| 85446506 | Hannibal | Carthaginian general during second punic war | 29 | |
| 85446507 | constantine | tried to unite rome with christianity | 30 | |
| 85446508 | punic war | war between rome and carthage | 31 | |
| 85446509 | consuls | two chief executives of the roman republic elected annually | 32 | |
| 85446510 | socrates | athenian philosopher of 5th century bce who tutored plato | 33 | |
| 85446511 | plato | greek philosopher | 34 | |
| 85446512 | aristotle | greek philosopher who taught alexander the great | 35 | |
| 85446513 | stoics | greek philosophers who used strict discipline of the body and bravery | 36 | |
| 85446514 | sophocles | greek writer of Oedipus Rex | 37 | |
| 85446515 | axum | Ethiopian kingdom located on highlands with strong arabian influence | 38 | |
| 85446516 | olmec culture | cultural tradition in mexico 1200 bce with irrigation agriculuture religion writing and calendar | 39 | |
| 85446517 | shinto | religion of early Japanese culture polytheistic | 40 | |
| 85446518 | teotihuacan | site of classic culture in central mexico | 41 | |
| 85446519 | yellow turbans | chinese daoists who launched revolt in 185 ce in golden age | 42 | |
| 85446520 | Sui | dynasty that succeeded Han in China | 43 | |
| 85446521 | Tang | dynasty succeeded Sui dynasty | 44 | |
| 85446522 | rajput | regional princes in india following fall of empire | 45 | |
| 85446523 | Saint Augustine | influential church father and theologian 354-430 born in africa | 46 | |
| 85446524 | Copts | christian sect of Egypt that supported islamic invasions over Byzantine rule | 47 | |
| 85446525 | Justinian | eastern roman emperor 527-565 | 48 | |
| 85446526 | Mahayana | chinese version of buddhism with buddha as god or savior | 49 | |
| 85446527 | Bodhisattvas | buddhist holy men; built up spiritual merits during their lifetime | 50 | |
| 85446528 | Animism | religious outlook that sees gods in many aspects of nature and explains nature | 51 | |
| 85446529 | Benedict | founder of monasticism in western roman empire and established benedictine rule (basil's rule in east) | 52 |
