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| 296298538 | Vedic & Epic ages | formative period, in which Indo-European migrants gradually adopted agriculture | 0 | |
| 296298539 | Mauryn Dynasty | Chandra Gupta -powerful empire in ancient India, 321 to 185 B.C.E. | 1 | |
| 296298540 | ashoka | ruler of the Mauryan Empire who converted to Buddhism | 2 | |
| 296298541 | Gupta Empire | Golden Age of India; central government but allowed village power; restored Hinduism | 3 | |
| 296298542 | Sanskrit | writing system developed by the Aryans | 4 | |
| 296298543 | Hinduism | Indian belief in reincarnation and a supreme being who takes many forms | 5 | |
| 296298544 | Upanishads | Sacred Hindu writings concerning the relations of humans, God, and the universe. | 6 | |
| 296298545 | Dharma | the religious and moral duties of Hindus | 7 | |
| 296298546 | Buddhism | religion founded by Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha; taught that the way to find truth was to give up all desires | 8 | |
| 296298547 | Tamils | Dravidian Hindus who settled at the southern tip of India in Sri Lanka | 9 | |
| 296298548 | Pericles | Ruled Athens in Golden Age. Made The government more democratic | 10 | |
| 296298549 | Alexander the Great | King of Macedonia who conquered Greece, Egypt, and Persia | 11 | |
| 296298550 | Hellenistic period | time where Greek art and culture merge with influences from the Middle East; | 12 | |
| 296298551 | Punic Wars | 3 wars fought between Rome and Carthage. Rome became dominant in Mediterranean | 13 | |
| 296298552 | Julius Caesar | dictator who conquering Gaul, assinated by the Senate because they were afraid of his power | 14 | |
| 296298553 | Senate | in ancient Rome, the supreme governing body, originally made up only of aristocrats | 15 | |
| 296298554 | zoroastrianism | system of religion founded in Persia in the 6th century BC about dual gods and early monotheism | 16 | |
| 296298555 | Peloponnesian wars | Series of wars between Athens and Sparta (winner) | 17 | |
| 296298556 | Philip II of Macedon | ruled Macedon from 359 to 336 BCE; founder of centralized kingdom; father of Alexander the Great | 18 | |
| 296298557 | Alexandria | City in Egypt founded by Alexander the Great, center of commerce and Hellenistic civilization | 19 | |
| 296298558 | Roman Republic | The period from 507 to 31 B.C.E., during which Rome was largely governed by the aristocratic Roman Senate | 20 | |
| 296298559 | Carthage | ancient powerful city the interfered with Roman access to the Mediterranean. Army led by Hannibal | 21 | |
| 296298560 | Hannibal | general who commanded the Carthaginian army in the second Punic War | 22 | |
| 296298561 | Augustus Caesar | The first emperor of Rome, the adopted son of Julius Caesar, help Rome come into Pax Romana, or the Age of Roman Peace. AKA Octavian | 23 | |
| 296298562 | Polis | Greek word for city-state | 24 | |
| 296298563 | Twelve Tables | Rome's first code of laws | 25 | |
| 296298564 | Kush | Nubian kingdom flourishing along the upper Nile around 1000 B.C.E. | 26 | |
| 296298565 | Axum and Ethiopia | Axum defeated Kush. Ethiopia in turn defeated Axum. Both kingdoms had contacts with the eastern Med. until after Rome's fall. Became Christian. | 27 | |
| 296298566 | shintoism | a religion based in Japan, marked by worship of nature and reverence for ancestors. Based on Buddhism | 28 | |
| 296298567 | Olmec | The first Mesoamerican civilization. Between ca. 1200 and 400 B.C.E., these people of central Mexico created a vibrant civilization that included intensive agriculture, wide-ranging trade, ceremonial centers, and monumental construction. | 29 | |
| 296298568 | Teotihuacan | First powerful city-state in central Mexico It's population was 150,000 in its peak in 600 CE; largest city in the Americas; remembered for giant Pyramid of the Sun | 30 | |
| 296298569 | Polynesian Peoples | Island civilizations that reached Fiji and Samoa by 1000 B.C.E. and Hawaii by 400 C.E. They adapted local plants, introduced new animals, and imported a caste system led by a local king | 31 | |
| 296298570 | Yellow Turbans | Chinese Daoists who launched a revolt in 184 CE in China promising a golden age to be brought about by divine magic | 32 | |
| 296298571 | Rajput | regional military princes in India following the collapse of the Gupta empire. | 33 | |
| 296298572 | Devi | The mother goddess of Hinduism. The worship of this deity encouraged new emotionalism in the religion. | 34 | |
| 296298573 | Augustine | One of the greatest Christian theologians from North Africa. | 35 | |
| 296298574 | Coptic Christianity | Largest branch of African Christianity, centered in Egypt. brought from Byzantine | 36 | |
| 296298575 | syncretism | a blending of two or more religious traditions | 37 | |
| 296298576 | Bodhisattvas | enlightened persons who have postponed nirvana to help others attain enlightenment | 38 | |
| 296298577 | Mahayana | Chinese version of Buddhism; placed considerable emphasis on Buddha as god or savior | 39 | |
| 296298578 | Jesus of Nazareth | Prophet and teacher among the Jews; Christian Messiah | 40 | |
| 296298579 | Paul | Jewish follower of Jesus who helped spread Christianity throughout the Roman world | 41 | |
| 296298580 | Benedict | Wrote a book describing the rules of monastic life. | 42 | |
| 296298581 | Maya | Mesoamerican civilization concentrated in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula and in Guatemala and Honduras but never unified into a single empire. Major contributions were in mathematics, astronomy, and development of the calendar. | 43 | |
| 296298582 | Pope | Head of the Roman Catholic Church | 44 | |
| 296298583 | Animism | the doctrine that all natural objects and the universe itself have souls | 45 |
