7544678011 | Bureaucracy | A system of government in which most of the important decisions are made by state officials rather than by elected representatives. | 0 | |
7544556101 | Diaspora | The dispersion of Jews beyond Israel. | 1 | |
7544562895 | Reincarnation | The rebirth of a soul in a new body. | 2 | |
7544568481 | Caste System | A class structure determined by birth. | 3 | |
7544575111 | Monotheism | The doctrine or belief that there is only one God. | 4 | |
7544581778 | Polytheism | The belief in or worship of more than one god. | 5 | |
7544585885 | Missionary | A person sent on a religious mission, especially one sent to promote Christianity in a foreign country. | 6 | |
7544589537 | Filial Piety | A virtue of respect for one's parents, elders, and ancestors. | 7 | |
7544595041 | Monasticism | A religious way of life in which one renounces worldly pursuits to devote oneself fully to spiritual work. | 8 | |
7544601118 | Shamanism | A religion practiced by indigenous peoples of far northern Europe and Siberia that is characterized by belief in an unseen world of gods, demons, and ancestral spirits responsive only to the shamans | 9 | |
7544607814 | Animism | The belief in a supernatural power that organizes and animates the material universe. | 10 | |
7544615055 | Ancestor veneration | he custom of venerating deceased ancestors who are considered still a part of the family and whose spirits are believed to have the power to intervene in the affairs of the living. | 11 | |
7544618161 | Shi Huangdi | Qin Shi Huang was the founder of the Qin dynasty and was the first emperor of a unified China. | 12 | |
7544623742 | Zhou dynasty | The Zhou Dynasty (1046-256 BCE) was the longest-lasting of China's dynasties. | 13 | |
7544629106 | Qin dynasty | Chinese dynasty (from 246 BC to 206 BC) that established the first centralized imperial government and built much of the Great Wall | 14 | |
7544634663 | Han dynasty | The Han Dynasty was the second imperial dynasty of China. Founded in 206 BC when the rebel leader Liu Bang successfully ended the Qin Dynasty, the Han Dynasty lasted for four centuries and is considered a golden age in Chinese history. | 15 | |
7544641084 | Great Wall | Stone wall extending for fifteen hundred miles across northern China. | 16 | |
7544646740 | Mauryan | a native or inhabitant of the area of northern India ruled by the Mauryan dynasty. | 17 | |
7544653675 | Gupta | The Gupta Empire was an ancient Indian empire founded by Sri Gupta. The empire existed at its zenith from approximately 320 to 550 CE and covered much of the Indian subcontinent. This period is called the Golden Age of India. | 18 | |
7544667413 | Ashoka | Ashoka was an Indian emperor of the Maurya Dynasty, who ruled almost all of the Indian subcontinent from c. 268 to 232 BCE | 19 | |
7544669275 | Rome | Italy's capital, is a sprawling, cosmopolitan city with nearly 3,000 years of globally influential art, architecture and culture on display. | 20 | |
7544672618 | Currency | A system of money in general use in a particular country. | 21 | |
7544681507 | Fortification | A defensive wall or other reinforcement built to strengthen a place against attack. | 22 | |
7544691971 | Hellenism | The national character or culture of Greece, especially ancient Greece. | 23 | |
7544693913 | Corvee labor | A form of unpaid, labor, which is intermittent in nature and which lasts limited periods of time. | 24 | |
7544705899 | Chattel slavery | Most people have in mind when they think of the kind of slavery that existed in the United States before the Civil War, and that existed legally throughout many parts of the world as far back as recorded history. | 25 | |
7544710886 | Tribute | Payment made periodically by one state or ruler to another, especially as a sign of dependence. | 26 | |
7544714134 | Silk Road | The Silk Road or Silk Route was an ancient network of trade routes that were for centuries central to cultural interaction originally through regions of Eurasia connecting the East and West and stretching from the Korean peninsula and Japan to the Mediterranean Sea. | 27 | |
7544719724 | Trans-Saharan trade route | The Trans-Sahara Highway is a proposed transnational highway project to pave, improve and ease border formalities on an existing trade route across the Sahara Desert. | 28 | |
7550997420 | Alexander the Great | A king of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon and a member of the Argead dynasty | 29 | |
7551014587 | Julius Caesar | A Roman politician and general who played a critical role in the events that led to the demise of the Roman Republic and the rise of the Roman Empire | 30 | |
7551032873 | Oligarchy | A small group of people having control of a country, organization, or institution. | 31 | |
7551055154 | Democracy | a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives. | 32 | |
7551063342 | Syncretism | the amalgamation or attempted amalgamation of different religions, cultures, or schools of thought. | 33 | |
7551070259 | Sanskrit | the primary liturgical language of Hinduism | 34 | |
7551086058 | stupa | a dome-shaped structure erected as a Buddhist shrine. | 35 | |
7551091197 | Buddha | any of a series of teachers in Buddhism, of whom Gautama was the last, who bring enlightenment and wisdom. | 36 | |
7551101760 | Confucius | Confucius was a Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn period of Chinese history | 37 | |
7551111773 | Jainism | a nontheistic religion founded in India in the 6th century BC by the Jina Vardhamana Mahavira as a reaction against the teachings of orthodox Brahmanism, and still practiced there | 38 | |
7551140984 | Christianity | the religion based on the person and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, or its beliefs and practices. | 39 | |
7551149413 | Cyrus the Great | was the founder of the Achaemenid Empire | 40 | |
7551161012 | Royal Road | a way of attaining or reaching something without trouble. | 41 | |
7551170736 | Daoism | a Chinese philosophy based on the writings of Lao-tzu ( 6th century BC), advocating humility and religious piety. | 42 | |
7551174619 | Legalism | excessive adherence to law or formula. | 43 | |
7551182852 | Satraps | a provincial governor in the ancient Persian empire. | 44 | |
7551185097 | Shaman | a person regarded as having access to, and influence in, the world of good and evil spirits, especially among some peoples of northern Asia and North America. | 45 | |
7551190920 | White Huns | a race of largely nomadic peoples who were a part of the Hunnic tribes of Central Asia. | 46 | |
7551198579 | Yellow Turban Revolution | a peasant revolt in China against the Eastern Han dynasty. | 47 |
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