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| 5479258429 | Hellenistic Age | The term for the era in which Greek culture spread across western Asia and northeastern Africa, usually dated 323-30 B.C.E. | 0 | |
| 5479260077 | hoplite | A heavily armored Greek infantryman who fought in the close-packed phalanx formation (during the Classical Period) | 1 | |
| 5479260078 | Helot | A member of a class of serfs in ancient Sparta, intermediate in status between slaves and citizens, that revolted and almost destroyed Sparta in 650 B.C.E. | 2 | |
| 5479260646 | Shi Huangdi | Founder of the short-lived Qin dynasty and creator of the Chinese Empire (221-210 B.C.E.). Remembered for his ruthless conquests of rival states, standardization of practices, and forcible organization of labor for military and engineering tasks. | 3 | |
| 5479261542 | Han | (1) The ethnic Chinese people who originated in the Yellow River Valley and spread throughout regions of China suitable for agriculture (2) The dynasty of emperors who ruled from 206 B.C.E. to 220 C.E. | 4 | |
| 5479264416 | Terracotta Army | A collection of terracotta sculptures depicting the armies of Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China. | 5 | |
| 5479264417 | Macedonia | An ancient kingdom on the periphery of Classical Greece. and later the dominant state of Hellenistic Greece. | 6 | |
| 5479265052 | Bering land bridge | A land bridge between Russia and Alaska that formed during the Ice Age that allowed a group of natives to cross over and populate the Americas. | 7 | |
| 5479265997 | Paleolithic Period | The period of the Stone Age associated with the evolution of humans. Before the Neolithic period. | 8 | |
| 5479266512 | The Epic of Gilgamesh | An epic poem from ancient Mesopotamia. Often regarded as the earliest surviving great work of literature. Composed of five Sumerian poems about the king of Uruk, and the lesson that death is an inevitable is shown in this writing. | 9 | |
| 5479267079 | polytheism | The belief in or worship of many gods. | 10 | |
| 5479267080 | Socrates | An Athenian philosopher who shifted the emphasis of philosophical investigation from questions of natural science to ethics and human behavior. He attracted young disciples from elite families but made enemies by revealing the ignorance and pretensions of others, culminating in his trial and execution by the Athenian state. (p. 140) | 11 | |
| 5479267081 | Pericles | Aristocratic leader who guided the Athenian state through the transformation to full participatory democracy for all male citizens, supervised construction of the Acropolis, and pursued a policy of imperial expansion that led to the Peloponnesian War. | 12 | |
| 5479267669 | Patricians | Roman aristocrats and wealthy classes. | 13 | |
| 5479267670 | Darius I | Third ruler of the Persian Empire. He crushed the initial resistance to his rule and gave all major government posts to Persians rather than to Medes. He established a system of provinces and tribute, began construction of Persepolis, and expanded Persian control in the east and west. | 14 | |
| 5479268358 | city-state | A small independent state consisting of an urban center and the surrounding agricultural territory. | 15 | |
| 5479268359 | Neolithic Period | The period of the Stone Age associated with the ancient Agricultural Revolution. Follows the Paleolithic Period | 16 | |
| 5479268360 | Hammurabi | Amorite ruler of Babylon. He conquered many city-states in southern and northern Mesopotamia and is best known for a code of laws, inscribed on a black stone pillar, illustrating the principles to be used in legal cases. | 17 | |
| 5479269081 | cuneiform | A system of writing in which wedge-shaped symbols represented words or syllables. Originated in Mesopotamia and was used initially for Sumerian and Akkadian but later was adapted to represent other languages of western Asia. | 18 | |
| 5479269082 | Sima Qian | The prime historian and eunuch of the Han Dynasty. He is responsible for reconstructing China's history prior to the Han dynasty. | 19 | |
| 5479269983 | republic | A government where citizens rule through elected representatives. | 20 | |
| 5479269984 | Augustus | The first empreror of Rome, the adopted son of Julius Caesar, help Rome come into Pax Romana, or the Age of Roman Peace. | 21 | |
| 5479280295 | Mandate of Heaven | Chinese religious and political ideology developed by the Zhou, according to which it was the prerogative of Heaven, the chief deity, to grant power to the ruler of China and to take away that power if the ruler failed to conduct himself justly and in the best interests of his subjects. | 22 | |
| 5479294501 | polis | The Greek term for a city-state, an urban center and the agricultural territory under its control. | 23 | |
| 5479744014 | Hammurabi's Code | A well-preserved Babylonian law code of ancient Mesopotamia, one of the oldest deciphered writings of significant length in the world. | 24 |
