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| 7260002310 | Mandate of Heaven | The Chinese belief that there could only be one legitimate ruler of China at a time and that they had a blessing from the gods. A person in China couldn't be a ruler unless they were given the blessing of the gods. |  | 0 |
| 7260002899 | Agricultural Revolution | The transition from hunting and gathering to farming crops. This was a major turning point in history, because it lead to the formation of civilizations. |  | 1 |
| 7260002900 | Code of Hammurabi | A code where punishments were based on class. This showed inequality among people of different classes. |  | 2 |
| 7260003322 | Patriarchy | A system of society or government in which the father is head of the family and men are superior to women. Women were no longer equal to men, and they had less rights than the men did. |  | 3 |
| 7260004231 | Polytheism | The belief in and worship of many gods. Early religions worshiped many gods, including spirits of things in nature. |  | 4 |
| 7260004611 | Cuneiform | Wedge-shaped symbols on clay tablets representing objects, abstract ideas, sounds, and syllables. This was an early form of writing in Mesopotamia. |  | 5 |
| 7312357815 | Indo-European | The people of the Persian empire located on the Iranian plateau. | 6 | |
| 7312357816 | Satraps | Persian governors that were placed in each of Persia's twenty-three provinces | 7 | |
| 7312358898 | Persepolis | A Persian imperial center that reflected the wealth and power of the Persian empire. The city had palaces and monuments that made it a symbol of authority. | 8 | |
| 7312362216 | Hellenes | What the ancient Greeks called themselves when they first formed their civilization. | 9 | |
| 7312362217 | Citizenship | The people in Greece with citizenship were initially only elite men, but later, lower class men and farmers were allowed to have citizenship. Women, slaves, and foreigners were not granted citizenship. | 10 | |
| 7312363390 | Alexander and his conquests | The son of Philip II. Conquered many lands for Greece. | 11 | |
| 7312365492 | Alexandria | The largest Greek city in Egypt conquered by Alexander. | 12 | |
| 7333809018 | Pater Familias | Head of the household | 13 | |
| 7333809019 | Augustus | First ruler of Rome, originally named Octavian | 14 | |
| 7333809020 | Pax Romana | Roman peace | 15 | |
| 7333809021 | Qin Shihuangdi | First emperor of China | 16 | |
| 7333809022 | Han Wudi | Emperor of Han | 17 | |
| 7333809023 | Xiongnu | People living beyond the northwest fronteir of China. | 18 | |
| 7333809024 | Julius Caesar | A military leader in Rome | 19 | |
| 7359042135 | Filial Piety | the responsibility children have to respect, obey, and care for their parents | 20 | |
| 7359042794 | Dao | The way | 21 | |
| 7359047643 | Vedas and Upanishads | collections of poems, hymns, prayers, and rituals | 22 | |
| 7359047644 | Brahman | the World Soul and the final and ultimate reality | 23 | |
| 7359048193 | Atman | the human soul and part of Brahman | 24 | |
| 7359048194 | Samsara | reincarnation | 25 | |
| 7359048195 | Karma | a principle where the human soul migrated from body to body based on one's actions | 26 | |
| 7359049240 | Moksha | liberation from the illusion of human existence | 27 | |
| 7359049241 | Nirvana | enlightenment | 28 | |
| 7359050457 | Theravada vs. Mahayana | Theravada, Teaching of the Elders, portrayed Buddha as a wise teacher, and Mahayana, Great Vehicle, provided help for believers on their voyage to enlightenment. Theravada was on your own and Mahayana was with help from others. | 29 | |
| 7359051235 | 4 Noble Truths | the four main ideas of Buddhism | 30 | |
| 7359052347 | Noble Eight Fold Path | Buddhist guide to life | 31 | |
| 7442079502 | Ashoka | a ruler of the Mauryan Empire in India who converted to Buddhism | 32 | |
| 7442079503 | Saint Paul | Responsible for much of the spread of Christianity | 33 | |
| 7442082409 | Coptic Christianity | Orthodox form of Christianity from Egypt practiced in Ethiopia | 34 | |
| 7442085887 | Stoics | One outwardly unaffected by pain or pleasure | 35 | |
| 7496828766 | Wang Mang | Took over the Chinese emperor's throne in 8 CE. Tried to divide landowners' land among peasants with no land, but was opposed and assassinated in 23 CE. | 36 | |
| 7496828767 | Scholar-gentry | Well educated Chinese officials that were a part of China's bureaucracy | 37 | |
| 7496831999 | Yellow Turban Rebellion | Peasants that were affected by the flooding of the Yellow River started a rebellion and wore yellow scarves on their heads to show support. In 184 CE, they had around 360,000 followers, but were suppressed by the Han military. However, they did weaken the economy and state, which assisted the fall of the Han dynasty a few years later. | 38 | |
| 7496832000 | Varnas | The four ranked classes in India in 500 BCE | 39 | |
| 7496833713 | Jatis | Occupationally based groups in India | 40 | |
| 7496836080 | Latifundia | Huge estates in Rome | 41 | |
| 7496838827 | Spartacus | In 73 BCE, he led seventy other slaves to freedom from a gladiator school, which attracted other slaves to revolt. | 42 | |
| 7496840534 | Patricians | The wealthy, hereditary aristocrats during the Roman era. | 43 | |
| 7496840535 | Plebians | Common people of Rome | 44 | |
| 7534052700 | Coptic Christianity | A form of Christianity practiced in Ethiopia | 45 | |
| 7534054875 | King Ezana of Axum | Adopted the religion of Christianity at about the same time as Constantine in Rome | 46 | |
| 7534054876 | Jenne-Jeno | An urbanized city which at its peak housed about 40,000 people, and did not have a centralized political system | 47 | |
| 7534054877 | Tikal | A city in the Mayan empire that had about 50,000 people | 48 | |
| 7534058870 | Teotihuacan | A Mesoamerican city that was formed before Columbus's exploration | 49 | |
| 7534067555 | Gender Parallelism | Men and women in the Aztec and Inca were separate but equal | 50 | |
| 7557699438 | Silk Roads | Trading networks that stretched through Eurasia by land. | 51 | |
| 7557699439 | Xiongnu | Nomadic people in China that were taken over by the Han. | 52 | |
| 7557701367 | Roman Empire | Diseases affected this empire because they were spread through trade on the Silk Roads. | 53 | |
| 7557701368 | Buddhism | This religion changed and added new concepts through the Silk Road, such as the Greek's Herakles who was viewed as Buddah's protector. | 54 | |
| 7557705238 | Dunhuang | An oasis city in Central Asia the Buddhism spread to. | 55 | |
| 7557705239 | Monsoons | They are alternating wind currents that blew predictably eastward during the summer months and westward during the winter. Understanding them and a gradually accumulating technology of shipbuilding and oceanic navigation drew on the ingenuity of many peoples - Chinese, Malays, Indians, Arabs, Swahilis, and others. | 56 |
