2909000319 | Paleolithic Age | The beginnings of mankind | 0 | |
2909000320 | Neolithic Rev | Beginnings of agriculture and domestication of plants and animals | 1 | |
2909000321 | City-State | A city that is independent and has its own king but it's part of a state | 2 | |
2909000322 | Theocracy | A system of gov where god is the ruler | 3 | |
2909000323 | Cuneiform | Denoting or relating to the wedge shaped characters used in the ancient writing systems of Mesopotamia | 4 | |
2909000324 | Code of Hammurabi | First written code of laws | 5 | |
2909000325 | Torah | Judaism's sacred text | 6 | |
2909000326 | Diaspora | The dispersion of any people from their original homeland | 7 | |
2909000327 | Dharma | The following of religious ethics based on location of caste system | 8 | |
2909000328 | Moksha | Hindu's version of heaven | 9 | |
2909000329 | Deference | Acceptance of others being better | 10 | |
2909000330 | Nirvana | Buddhism's enlightenment | 11 | |
2909000331 | Bureaucracy | System of gov in which most of the important decisions are made by state officials | 12 | |
2909000332 | Filial Piety | A virtue of respect for ones father, elders, and ancestors | 13 | |
2909000333 | Aristocracy | Highest class, form of gov in which power is held by nobility | 14 | |
2909000334 | Mandate of Heaven | Ancient Chinese belief and philosophical idea that heaven granted emperors the right to rule based on their ability to govern well and fairly | 15 | |
2909000335 | Legalism | Strict adherence to law or prescription, the doctrine that salvation is gained through good works | 16 | |
2909000336 | Daoism | Philosophical, ethical or religious tradition of Chinese origin that emphasizes living in harmony with the Dao | 17 | |
3005916974 | Secular | Denoting attitudes, activities, or other things that have no religious or spiritual beliefs | 18 | |
3005923613 | Coup D Etat | A sudden decisive exercise of force in politics, violent overthrow of alteration of existing gov | 19 | |
3005937809 | Oligarchy | A small group of people having control | 20 | |
3005940375 | Monarchy | Supreme power to one person | 21 | |
3005954453 | Heresy | Dissenting view, nonbeliever | 22 | |
3005958542 | Conscription | Military draft | 23 | |
3005962212 | Blasphemy | Speech or actions that are disrespectful to sacred | 24 | |
3005965224 | Grassroot | Originating | 25 | |
3005968313 | Military-Industrial Complex | A country's military establishment and those industries producing armies or other military materials, regarded as powerful vested interest | 26 | |
3005976314 | Dowry | Property or money brought by a bride to her husband on their marriage | 27 | |
3006233852 | Patricians | Aristocratic peeps | 28 | |
3006237216 | Plebians | Poor peeps | 29 | |
3006248108 | Athens | Depended on sea trade, reliant on slaves, democratic, education and artistic expression is focused | 30 | |
3006254025 | Sparta | Aristocratic gov focuses on building a strong military, oligarchy, economy relied on agriculture and slaves | 31 | |
3006263971 | Julius Caesar | After his assassination in 44BCE, it led to the Roman Empire | 32 | |
3006283703 | Bicameral Legistlature | Two houses, veto, checks and balances | 33 | |
3006519169 | Socrates | Socratic method of questioning | 34 | |
3006521892 | Plato | Wanted to help us understand world better with cave metalhor | 35 | |
3006527060 | Aristotle | First to classify areas of human knowledge, first to develop a formalized statement for reasoning | 36 | |
3006537961 | Alexander the Great | Conquered much of the land and spread Hellenistic culture and never was defeated | 37 | |
3006542249 | Archimedes | Invented the pully, the screw and war machines and calculated pi | 38 | |
3006549964 | Eratosthenes | Estimated circumference of earth, coined term geography, created sieve for prime numbers | 39 | |
3006555803 | Pythagoras | Founded Pythagorean theorem | 40 | |
3006558405 | Hippocrates | Hippo Oath | 41 | |
3005945471 | Popular sovereignty | The doctrine in political theory that gov is created by and subjected to the will of the people | 42 |
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