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5190975341Alexander the Great pg: 166 Pking of Macedon, who conquered Greece (336), Egypt (331), and the Persian Empire (328), and founded Alexandria0
5190978621Analects of Confucius pg: 183 PA work that has profoundly influenced Chinese political and cultural traditions1
5190982678Bactria pg: 209 Pan ancient country in W Asia, between the Oxus River and the Hindu Kush Mountains2
5190984362Bronze Age pg: 112 Pa period in the history of humankind, following the Stone Age and preceding the Iron Age, during which bronze weapons and implements were used3
5190988377Byzantium pg: 440 Pan ancient Greek city on the Bosporus and the Sea of Marmara: Constantine I rebuilt it and renamed it Constantinople a.d4
5190990378Ceylon pg: 222 Pformer name of Sri Lanka5
5190993240Chang'an pg: 194 Pfomer name of Xian6
5190996009Cleopatra pg: 268 Pa female given name: from Greek words meaning "fame" and "father."7
5190997652Crete pg: 232 PSea of, a part of the S Aegean Sea lying between the Cyclades Islands and Crete8
5191000541Cyrus, Darius pg: 159, 162 Pfounder of the Persian empire9
5191002430Democracy pg: 236 Pa form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system10
5191004906Diocletian pg: 306 PIllyrian soldier: emperor of Rome 284-30511
5191008512Eight Fold Path pg: 220 Cthe eight pursuits of one seeking enlightenment, comprising right understanding, motives, speech, action, means of livelihood, effort, intellectual activity, and contemplation.12
5191012620Four Noble Paths pg: 219 Cthe core of the Buddha's doctrine teaches that all life involves suffering13
5191014500Gothic Migrations Iperiod of human migration that occurred roughly between 300 to 700 CE in Europe, marking the transition from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages14
5191016419Great Wall pg: 725 Pa system of fortified walls with a roadway along the top, constructed as a defense for China against the nomads of the regions that are now Mongolia and Manchuria15
5191018352Han Dynasty pg: 193 Pwas one of the longest of China's major dynasties16
5191022084Hellenism pg: 242 Pthe characteristics of Greek culture, especially after the time of Alexander the Great; civilization of the Hellenistic period17
5191024168The Huns pg: 213 Pa member of a nomadic and warlike Asian people who devastated or controlled large parts of eastern and central Europe and who exercised their greatest power under Attila in the 5th century a.d.18
5191025729Indian Ocean Trade pg: 215 Eserved as an important role in history, and has been a key factor in East-West exchanges19
5191027179Iron Age pg: 118 Pthe period in the history of humankind, following the Stone Age and the Bronze Age, marked by the use of implements and weapons made of iron.20
5191029968Jewish Diaspora Irefers to the dispersion of Israelites, Judahites, and later Jews out of their ancestral homeland (the Land of Israel) and the communities built by them across the world.21
5191033411Khotan Pthe chief city in this oasis22
5191035398Kuqa Pa county in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region under the administration of the Aksu Prefecture23
5191038023Legalism(China)pg: 188 Pwas a philosophy of administration in ancient China24
5191040356Marc Antony Pan ally of Julius Caesar and the main rival of his successor Octavian (later Augustus)25
5191042329Noble Eightfold Path pg: 220 Cthe system of following these eight divisions of the path to achieve spiritual enlightenment and cease suffering26
5191045966Olympic Games 1076 Cpart of a religious festival. The Greek Olympics, thought to have begun in 776 BC, inspired the modern Olympic Games (begun in 1896) The Games were held in honour of Zeus, king of the gods, and were staged every four years at Olympia, a valley near a city called Elis27
5191050178Pax Romana pg:271 Sthe terms of peace imposed by ancient Rome on its dominions28
5191052325Pericles pg: 237&240 P495-429 b.c, Athenian statesman29
5191056063Persepolis pg: 162,163&166 Pan ancient capital of Persia30
5191059621Ptolemy pg: 242 PHellenistic mathematician, astronomer, and geographer in Alexandria31
5191062167Punic Wars pg: 264 Pthe three wars waged by Rome against Carthage, 264-241, 218-201, and 149-146 b.c., resulting in the destruction of Carthage and the annexation of its territory by Rome32
5191063885Roman Republic pg: 260, 262-64 Pthe period of ancient Roman civilization beginning with the overthrow of the Roman Kingdom, traditionally dated to 509 BC, and ending in 27 BC with the establishment of the Roman Empire33
5191066886Roman Senate Ppolitical institution in ancient Rome34
5191069838Samarkand pg: 476 Pa city in SE Uzbekistan: taken by Alexander the Great 329 b.c.; Tamerlane's capital in the 14th century35
5191071182Shang Civilization( China) pg: 111-114 Pruled in the Yellow River valley in the second millennium BC, succeeding the Xia dynasty and followed by the Zhou dynasty36
5191074065Shi Huang Di (Qin China) pg: 190-193 PChinese emperor c247-210 b.c. initiated the building of the Great Wall of China37
5191076812Siddhartha Gautama Pan ascetic and sage, on whose teachings Buddhism was founded38
5191079060Silk Road Trade pg: 198, 287-88 Enetwork of trade routes that for centuries were central to cultural interaction through regions of the Asian continent connecting the East and West from China to the Mediterranean Sea39
5191081875Stoics pg: 254, 276-77, 278-79 Cof or relating to the school of philosophy founded by Zeno, who taught that people should be free from passion, unmoved by joy or grief, and submit without complaint to unavoidable necessity40
5191084617The Torah pg: 47,48 Ca scroll that says the law of God as revealed to Moses and recorded in the first five books of the Hebrew scriptures (the Pentateuch)41
5191089425The Vedas of Hinduism pg: 94, 99-101 Clarge body of texts originating in the ancient Indian subcontinent42
5191091214Xiongnu pg: 194, 196-97, 199, 201, 287 Pwere one of the nomadic peoples of Ancient Central Asia43

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