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| 135121113 | Loess | fine, light silt deposited by wind and water. It constitutes the fertile soil of the Yellow River Valley in northern China. | 0 | |
| 135121114 | Shang | The dominant people in the earliest Chinese dynasty for which we have written records (ca. 1750-1045 B.C.E.). | 1 | |
| 135121115 | Divination | Techniques for ascertaining the future or the will of the gods by interpreting natural phenomena. | 2 | |
| 135121116 | Zhou | The people and dynasty that took over the dominant position in north China from the Shang and created the concept of the Mandate of Heaven to justify their rule. | 3 | |
| 135121117 | 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. | 4 | |
| 135121118 | Legalism | In China, a political philosophy that emphasized the unruliness of human nature and justified state coercion and control. | 5 | |
| 135121119 | Confucius | His doctrine of duty and public service had a great influence on subsequent Chinese thought and served as a code of conduct for government officials. | 6 | |
| 135121120 | Daoism | Chinese school of thought, originating in the Warring States Period with Laozi (604-531 B.C.E.). _____ believe that the world is always changing and is devoid of absolute morality or meaning. They accept the world as they find it, avoid futile struggles, and deviate as little as possible from the Dao, or path of nature. | 7 | |
| 135121121 | Yin/yang | In Chinese belief, complementary factors that help to maintain the equilibrium of the world. | 8 | |
| 135121122 | Kush | An Egyptian name for Nubia, the region alongside the Nile River south of Egypt, where and indigenous kingdom with its own distinctive institutions and cultural traditions arose beginning in the early second millennium B.C.E. | 9 | |
| 135121123 | Meroe | Capital of a flourishing kingdom in southern Nubia from the fourth century B.C.E. to the fourth century C.E. | 10 | |
| 135121124 | Olmec | The first Mesoamerican civilization. Between 1200 and 400 B.C.E., the _____ people of central Mexico created a vibrant civilization that included intensive agriculture, wide-ranging trade, ceremonial centers, and monumental construction. | 11 | |
| 135121125 | Chavin | The first major urban civilization in South America (900 B.C.E-250 B.C.E.). | 12 | |
| 135121126 | Llama | A hoofed animal indigenous to the Andes Mountains in South America. It was the only domesticated beast of burden in the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans. | 13 |
