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| 6769754426 | Pharaoh | An egyptian monarch | 0 | |
| 6769756837 | Artifact | An object made by humans | 1 | |
| 6769758660 | Oracle bones | Animal bones or shells used by Chinese priests to receive messages from the gods | 2 | |
| 6769784808 | Bodhisattvas | Buddhist holy men who accumulated spiritual merits during their lifetime; Buddhists prayed tobthe, in order to receive some of their holiness | 3 | |
| 6769817053 | Silk roads | Caravan routes and sea lanes between china and the middle east | 4 | |
| 6769821748 | Analects | Collection of teachings and sayings made by confucius | 5 | |
| 6769831344 | Jati | sub castes; were groups of people within each caste that worked together for one economic function | 6 | |
| 6769832481 | Steppe | Sparse, dry, treeless grassland | 7 | |
| 6769837986 | Mystery religion | During the Hellenistic Age, religions that promised their faithful followers eternity in a state of bliss | 8 | |
| 6769840470 | Yahweh | The personal name of the God of Israel revealed to Moses and meaning "I am who I am." The word is rendered "Lord" or Adonai. | 9 | |
| 6769870385 | Aristotle | Greek philosopher; teacher of Alexander the Great; knowledge based on observation of phenomena in material world | 10 | |
| 6769873620 | Yin and yang | two forces in the universe, according to Chinese Theory: Yin is the passive, negative force, and Yang the active, positive force | 11 | |
| 6769875580 | Nirvana | The state of englightenment for Buddhists. | 12 | |
| 6769879155 | Filial piety | In China, respect for one's parents and other elders | 13 | |
| 6769885239 | Moksha | The Hindu concept of the spirit's 'liberation' from the endless cycle of rebirths. | 14 | |
| 6769887081 | Karma | (Hinduism and Buddhism) the effects of a person's actions that determine his destiny in his next incarnation | 15 | |
| 6769904400 | Latifunia | large land owned by aristocrats. serfs lived there in exchange for working the land( farming etc) | 16 | |
| 6769912436 | Alexander the great | King of Macedonia who conquered Greece, Egypt, and Persia | 17 | |
| 6769924867 | Vedas | Early Indian sacred 'knowledge'-the literal meaning of the term-long preserved and communicated orally by Brahmin priests and eventually written down. | 18 | |
| 6769928031 | Theocracy | A government controlled by religious leaders | 19 | |
| 6769943969 | Aristocracy | A government in which power is in the hands of a hereditary ruling class or nobility | 20 | |
| 6769945322 | Artisan | craftsman | 21 | |
| 6769948518 | Civilization | a society with reliable food surplus, specialized occupations, social class distinctions, cities, complex governments, trade, and an organized writing system | 22 | |
| 6769951670 | Edict of man | Granted the Hugenots religious toleration and let them fortify their own towns and cities | 23 | |
| 6769953782 | Polis | A Greek city-state | 24 | |
| 6769955870 | Indo-European | In about the 1500s BCE these people were migrating tribes from present-day southeast Russia. Some traveled to Europe, some to Persia, and some to India. Thus, today many people in Europe, Perisa, and India share some lingustic, cultural, and biological roots. | 25 | |
| 6769958219 | Brahmin | A member of the social class of priests in Aryan society | 26 | |
| 6769962603 | Quetzalcoatl | Aztec nature god, feathered serpent, his disappearance and promised return coincided with the arrival of Cortes | 27 | |
| 6794474424 | huns | large nomadic group from northern Asia who invaded territories extending from China to Eastern Europe. They virtually lived on their horses, herding cattle, sheep, and horses as well as hunting. | 28 | |
| 6794476809 | democracy | A political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them | 29 | |
| 6794478781 | monsoon | A seasonal wind. | 30 | |
| 6794480382 | dynasty | A series of rulers from the same family | 31 | |
| 6794483485 | hieroglyphics | An ancient Egyptian writing system in which pictures were used to represent ideas and sounds | 32 | |
| 6794485587 | cuneiform | A system of writing in which wedge-shaped symbols represented words or syllables. It originated in Mesopotamia and was used initially for Sumerian and Akkadian but later was adapted to represent other languages of western Asia. | 33 | |
| 6794490616 | foraging | A term for hunting and gathering | 34 | |
| 6794493258 | covenant | An agreement between God and his people | 35 | |
| 6794497963 | slash and burn cultivation | An agricultural method in which farmers clear fields by cutting and burning trees, then use the ashes as fertilizer | 36 | |
| 6794502802 | ziggurat | Mesopotamia temple tower made of rectangular terraces of diminishing size | 37 | |
| 6794509142 | disciple | A follower of Jesus | 38 | |
| 6794515498 | zoroastrianism | Persian religion founded by Zoroaster; taught that humans had the freedom to choose between right and wrong, and that goodness would triumph in the end | 39 | |
| 6794519941 | patriarchal | relating to a society in which men hold the greatest legal and moral authority | 40 | |
| 6794523606 | reincarnation | In Hinduism and Buddhism, the process by which a soul is reborn continuously until it achieves perfect understanding | 41 | |
| 6794529679 | matrilineal | relating to a social system in which family descent and inheritance rights are traced through the mother | 42 | |
| 6794532532 | 12 tablets | Rome's first written law of code. | 43 | |
| 6794537937 | mandate of heaven | A power or law believed to be granted by a god | 44 | |
| 6794541459 | geocentric theory | theory that earth is the center of the solar system or the universe. Geo is Greek for earth | 45 | |
| 6794546623 | polytheism | The belief in many gods | 46 | |
| 6794548968 | monotheism | Belief in one God | 47 | |
| 6794551514 | animism | The belief that spirits inhabit the features of nature | 48 | |
| 6794556927 | hsiung-nu | The Central Nomadic people who invaded China in the ancient world | 49 | |
| 6794563682 | sati | a custom among the higher castes of hinduism of a widow throwing herself on the burning funeral pyre of her husband | 50 | |
| 6794579739 | specialization of labor | The division of labor that aids the development of skills in a particular type of work | 51 | |
| 6794582928 | hellenistic age | Historians' term for the era, usually dated 323-30 B.C.E., in which Greek culture spread across western Asia and northeastern Africa after the conquests of Alexander the Great. The period ended with the fall of the last major kingdom to Rome, but Greek cultural influence persisted until the spread of Islam in the seventh century C.E. | 52 | |
| 6794587228 | diaspora | A dispersion of people from their homeland | 53 | |
| 6794590750 | torah | The first five books of Jewish Scripture, which they believe are by Moses, are called this | 54 | |
| 6794594435 | pope | Head of the Roman Catholic Church | 55 | |
| 6794675028 | varna | hindu word for caste | 56 | |
| 6794679011 | independent invention | The idea that ancient civilizations were able to achieve characteristics of civilization without contact with others | 57 | |
| 6794684121 | neolithic revolution | (10,000 - 4,000 BCE) The development of agriculture and the domestication of animals as a food source. This led to the development of permanent settlements and the start of civilization. | 58 | |
| 6794687396 | 10 commandments | Express the natural law of God and are the basis of morality | 59 | |
| 6794692234 | stoicism | An ancient Greek philosophy that became popular amongst many notable Romans. Emphasis on ethics. They considered destructive emotions to be the result of errors in judgment, and that a wise person would repress emotions, especially negative ones and that "virtue is sufficient for happiness." They were also concerned with the conflict between free will and determinism. They were also non-dualists and naturalists. | 60 | |
| 6794694307 | neolithic age | the new stone age that was marked by the discovery and mastery of agriculture | 61 | |
| 6794697801 | climate | Overall weather in an area over a long period of time | 62 | |
| 6794699523 | new testament | The second part of the Christian Bible, containing descriptions of the life and teachings of Jesus and of his early followers | 63 | |
| 6794703206 | dharma | The position in the Hindu caste system that was determined by one's birth | 64 | |
| 6794712551 | pastoralism | the practice of herding | 65 | |
| 6794715087 | messiah | "God's chosen (anointed) one" - the awaited king of the Jews; this term is derived from the Hebrew language | 66 | |
| 6794717878 | pax romana | 200 year period of peace in Rome. | 67 | |
| 6794721256 | untouchables | LOWEST LEVEL OF INDIAN SOCIETY; not considered a real part of the caste system; often given degrading jobs; their life was extremely difficult | 68 | |
| 6794725504 | agricultural revolution | The time when human beings first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering | 69 | |
| 6794728292 | cultural diffusion | The spread of ideas, customs, and technologies from one people to another | 70 | |
| 6799714890 | ka'aba | A black stone building in Mecca that is shaped like a cube and that is the most sacred Muslim pilgrim shrine | 71 | |
| 6799715877 | syncretism | a combination of different forms of belief and practice | 72 | |
| 6799718879 | austronesian | A branch of languages originating in Oceania | 73 | |
| 6799722649 | hadith | A collection of the sayings and deeds of Muhammad | 74 | |
| 6799723967 | magna carta | "the Great Charter"; a written legal agreement signed in 1215 that limited the English monarch's power | 75 | |
| 6799725373 | harem | A household of wives and concubines in the Middle East, Africa, or Asia | 76 | |
| 6799726236 | dalmyo | Were the most powerful samurai or ruling leaders. | 77 | |
| 6799728434 | chivalry | A code that knights adopted in the late Middle Ages; requiring them to be brave, loyal and true to their word; they had to fight fairly in battle | 78 | |
| 6799729200 | mita | Andean labor system based on shared obligations to help kinsmen and work on behalf of the ruler and religious organizations. | 79 | |
| 6799730249 | maori | A member of a Polynesian group that settled New Zealand about 800 C.E. | 80 | |
| 6799731057 | bakufu | A military government established in Japan after the Gempei Wars; the emperor became a figurehead, while real power was concentrated in the military, including the samurai | 81 | |
| 6799732646 | khan | A Mongol ruler | 82 | |
| 6799734949 | astrolabe | A navigational instrument used to determine latitude by measuring the position of the stars | 83 | |
| 6799735813 | serf | an agricultural laborer bound under the feudal system to work on his lord's estate. | 84 | |
| 6799739658 | neo-confusianism | Confucian teachings and practices with the influence of Buddhism | 85 | |
| 6799740711 | feudalism | A political and social system that developed during the Middle Ages; nobles offered protection and land in return for service | 86 | |
| 6799741441 | parliament | Body of representatives that makes laws for a nation | 87 | |
| 6799742186 | kowtow | The ritual of prostrating and touching the forehead to the ground, demanded of all foreign ambassadors to the Chinese court as a symbol of submission. | 88 | |
| 6799743725 | caravel | A small, highly maneuverable three-masted ship used by the Portuguese and Spanish in the exploration of the Atlantic. | 89 | |
| 6799746645 | stateless society | A society that is based on the authority of kinship groups rather than on a central government | 90 | |
| 6799747511 | quipus | A system of knotted cords of different sizes and colors used by the Incas for keeping records | 91 | |
| 6799749059 | monorialism | The system of self-sufficient estates that arose in medieval Europe | 92 | |
| 6799749811 | zakat | Tax for charity; obligatory for all Muslims | 93 | |
| 6799751889 | people of the book | what Muslims called Christians and Jews which means that they too only believe in one god | 94 | |
| 6799753534 | minaret | a tall slender tower, typically part of a mosque, with a balcony from which a muezzin calls Muslims to prayer. | 95 | |
| 6799754363 | lateen sails | a triangular sail on a long yard at an angle of 45° to the mast. | 96 | |
| 6799754896 | age grade | An age group into which children were placed in Bantu societies of early sub-Saharan Africa; children within the age grade were given responsibilities and privileges suitable for their age and in this manner were prepared for adult responsibilities | 97 | |
| 6799755955 | abacus | counting device | 98 | |
| 6799756873 | tea ceremony | An ancient Shinto ritual still performed in the traditional Japanese capital of Kyoto | 99 |
