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| 14008072348 | Vedas | "Wisdom," early collections of prayers and hymns that provide information about the Indo-European Aryans who migrated to India around 1500 B.C.E. |  | 0 |
| 14008072349 | Theocracy | A government ruled by God or by church leaders |  | 1 |
| 14008072350 | Aristocracy | a class of persons holding exceptional rank and privileges, especially the hereditary nobility |  | 2 |
| 14008072351 | Artisan | a craftsman |  | 3 |
| 14008072352 | Civilization | A cultural group with advanced cities, complex institutions, skilled workers, advanced technology, and a system of recordkeeping |  | 4 |
| 14008072353 | Edict of Milan | A document that made Christianity one of the religions allowed in the Roman Empire |  | 5 |
| 14008072354 | polis | Greek city-state |  | 6 |
| 14008072355 | Indo-Europeans | A group of semi-nomadic people who, around 2000 B.C.E. began to migrate from central Asia to India, Europe, and the Middle East |  | 7 |
| 14008072356 | Brahmin | a member of the social class of priests in Aryan society |  | 8 |
| 14008072357 | Quetzalcoatl | A Mesoamerica legend of a god who would someday return to rule his people in peace |  | 9 |
| 14008072358 | Huns | A nomadic group, believed to be from Central Asia, who invaded into Europe near the end of Rome |  | 10 |
| 14008072359 | Democracy | a political system in which the people rule |  | 11 |
| 14008072360 | Monsoon | A seasonal wind |  | 12 |
| 14008072361 | Dynasty | a series of rulers from the same family |  | 13 |
| 14008072362 | Hieroglyphics | A system of picture writing used in Egypt |  | 14 |
| 14008072363 | Cuneiform | a system of writing originating in Mesopotamia in which a wedge-shaped stylus was used to press symbols into clay |  | 15 |
| 14008072364 | Foraging | A term for hunting and gathering |  | 16 |
| 14008072365 | Covenant | agreement; in the Judeo-Christian heritage, an agreement between God and humankind |  | 17 |
| 14008072366 | Slash-and-burn | An agricultural method in which farmers clear fields by cutting and burning trees, then use the ashes as fertilizer |  | 18 |
| 14008072367 | Pharaoh | An Egyptian monarch |  | 19 |
| 14008072368 | Artifact | an object made by human hands |  | 20 |
| 14008072369 | Oracle Bones | animal bones carved with written characters which were used for telling the future |  | 21 |
| 14008072370 | Bodhisattvas | Buddhist holy men who accumulated spiritual merits during their lifetime; Buddhists prayed to them in order to receive some of their holiness. |  | 22 |
| 14008072371 | Silk Roads | Caravan routes and sea lanes between China and the Middle East. |  | 23 |
| 14008072372 | Analects | collection of teachings and sayings made by Confucius |  | 24 |
| 14008072373 | Jati | Complicated system of subcastes in the Hindu caste system. |  | 25 |
| 14008072374 | Steppe | Dry grassland. |  | 26 |
| 14008072375 | Mystery religion | During the Hellenistic age, religions that promised their faithful followers eternity a state of bliss | 27 | |
| 14008072376 | Yahweh | God of the monotheistic religion of Judaism that influcenced later religions of Christianity and Islam |  | 28 |
| 14008072377 | Aristotle | Greek philosopher who rejected the theory of forms and ideas, he believed that people could depend on their senses and reason to answer the mysteries of the world |  | 29 |
| 14008072378 | Yin and yang | In ancient Chinese belief, the opposing forces that bring balance to nature and life. |  | 30 |
| 14008072379 | Nirvana | In Buddhism, a state of perfect peace that is the goal of reincarnation |  | 31 |
| 14008072380 | Filial piety | In China, respect for one's parents and other elders. |  | 32 |
| 14008072381 | Moksha | In Hindu belief, the spirit's liberation from the cycle of reincarnation |  | 33 |
| 14008072382 | Latifundia | Large landholdings in the Roman Empire |  | 34 |
| 14008072383 | Alexander the Great | Macedonian king who led an army Eastward and conquered land from Greece to India. He was known as a brilliant military leader and his death marked the beginning of the Hellenistic Era |  | 35 |
| 14008072384 | Ziggurat | Mesopotamian Temples |  | 36 |
| 14008072385 | Disciple | One of the 12 followers of Christ, or any of the professed followers of Christ in his lifetime. |  | 37 |
| 14008072386 | Zoroastrianism | Persian religion based on the teaching of the 6th century BCE prophet Zarathustra; its emphasis on the duality of good and evil and on the role of individuals in determining their own fate would influence later religions |  | 38 |
| 14008072387 | Patriarchal | Pertaining to a social system in which the father is the head of the family |  | 39 |
| 14008072388 | Reincarnation | Rebirth; a belief of both Buddhism and Hinduism |  | 40 |
| 14008072389 | Matrilineal | Referring to a social system in which descent and inheritance are traced through the mother |  | 41 |
| 14008072390 | Twelve tables | The codification of Roman law during the republic |  | 42 |
| 14008072391 | Mandate of heaven | The "will of the gods" that granted a ruler the right to rule |  | 43 |
| 14008072392 | Geocentric theory | the belief held by many before the Scientific Revolution that the earth is the center of the universe |  | 44 |
| 14008072393 | Polytheism | The belief in many gods |  | 45 |
| 14008072394 | Monotheism | Belief in one God |  | 46 |
| 14008072395 | Animism | The belief that spirits inhabit the features of nature |  | 47 |
| 14008072396 | Hsiung-nu | The Central Nomadic people who invaded into China in the ancient world |  | 48 |
| 14008072397 | Sati | The custom among the higher castes of Hinduism of a widow throwing herself on the burning funeral pyre of her husband. | 49 | |
| 14008072398 | Specialization of labor | The division of labor that aids the development of skills in a particular type of work |  | 50 |
| 14008072399 | Hellenistic age | The era in which Greek culture blended with Persian and other Eastern influences and spread throughout the former empire of Alexander the Great |  | 51 |
| 14008072400 | Diaspora | the exile of an ethnic or racial group from their homeland |  | 52 |
| 14008072401 | Torah | The first five books of the Jewish scripture. |  | 53 |
| 14008072402 | Pope | The head of the Roman Catholic Church. |  | 54 |
| 14008072403 | Varna | The Hindu word for caste |  | 55 |
| 14008072404 | Independent invention | The idea that ancient civilizations were able to achieve characteristics of civilization without contact with others |  | 56 |
| 14008072405 | Neolithic revolution | The introduction of agriculture, domestication of animals, and a more sedentary life during the Neolithic Age |  | 57 |
| 14008072406 | Ten commandments | The moral law of the Hebrews. |  | 58 |
| 14008072407 | Stoicism | The most popular Hellenistic philosophy; it involved strict discipline and an emphasis on helping others. |  | 59 |
| 14008072408 | Neolithic age | The New Stone Age that was marked by the discovery and mastery of agriculture |  | 60 |
| 14008072409 | Climate | The pattern of temperature and precipitation over a period of time |  | 61 |
| 14008072410 | New testament | The portion of the Christian Bible that contains the Gospels that relate the account of the life of Jesus; letters from the followers of Jesus to the early Christian churches and the Book of Revelation, a prophetic text |  | 62 |
| 14008072411 | Dharma | the position in the Hindu caste system that was determined by one's birth |  | 63 |
| 14008072412 | Pastoralism | The practice of herding |  | 64 |
| 14008072413 | Messiah | The Roman Peace; the period of prosperity and stability throughout the Roman Empire in the first two centuries C.E. |  | 65 |
| 14008072414 | Untouchables | The social division in Hindu society that fell in rank below the caste system; it was occupied by those who carried out undesirable occupations such as undertaking, butchering, and waste collection. |  | 66 |
| 14008072415 | Agricultural Revolution | The transition from foraging to the cultivation of food occurring about 8000 - 2000 BC; also known as the Neolithic revolution |  | 67 |
| 14008072416 | Cultural diffusion | the transmission of ideas and products from one culture to another |  | 68 |
