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| 10713351963 | Wang Mang | A Han court official who usurped the throne and ruled from 8 C.E. to 23 C.E.; noted for his reform movement that included the breakup of large estates. interrupted Han rule for around 15 years to rule China; tried helping the poor by establishing granaries and land reform. | 0 | |
| 10713354070 | China's scholar-gentry class | A term used to describe members of China's landowning families, reflecting their wealth from the land and the privilege that they derived as government officials. Held the highest status in Chinese society, created by the civil service exams | 1 | |
| 10713354071 | Ge Hong | A famous advocate of immortality who lived from 284 to 363 and was the author of The Master Embracing Simplicity. He was an eclectic thinker who aspired to reconcile Daoism and Confucianism and sought immortality through alchemy but also through the written word. | 2 | |
| 10713356111 | Yellow Turban Rebellion | A massive Chinese peasant uprising inspired by Daoist teachings that began in 184 C.E. with the goal of establishing a new golden age of equality and harmony. A major Chinese peasant revolt that began in 184 BCE and helped cause the fall of the Han dynasty | 3 | |
| 10713361617 | caste as varna and jati | The system of social organization in India that has evolved over millennia; it is based on an original division of the populace into four inherited classes(varna), with the addition of thousands of social distinctions based on occupation (jati), which became the main cell of social life in India. | 4 | |
| 10713363597 | "ritual purity" in Indian social practice | In India, the idea that members of higher castes must adhere to strict regulations limiting or forbidding their contact with objects and members of lower castes to preserve their own caste standing and their relationship with the gods. | 5 | |
| 10713365128 | Greek and Roman slavery | In the Greek and Roman world, slaves were captives from war and piracy (and their descendants), abandoned children, and the victims of long-distance trade; manumission was common. Among the Greeks, household service was the most common form of slavery, but in parts of the Roman state, thousands of slaves were employed under brutal conditions in the mines and on great plantations. | 6 | |
| 10713367716 | Spartacus | A Roman gladiator who led the most serious slave revolt in Roman history from 73 to 71 B.C.E.). slave, trained as a gladiator, who led a rebellion against the roman army for slave freedom- he was killed after two years | 7 | |
| 10713370719 | patriarchy | a system of society or government in which the father or eldest male is head of the family and descent is traced through the male line. a form of social organization in which a male is the family head and title is traced through the male line. | 8 | |
| 10713372674 | the "three obediences" | In Chinese Confucian thought, the notion that a woman is permanently subordinate to male control: child to father, wife to husband, and widow to son | 9 | |
| 10713374419 | Empress Wu | Empress of China during the Tang dynasty, she ruled ruthlessly and brought prosperity to China the only woman to rule China in her own name, expanded the empire and supported Buddhism during the Tang Dynasty. | 10 | |
| 10713376635 | Aspasia and Pericles | -Husband and wife. -Greece. -Aspasia lived from 470 BC to 400 BC, and Pericles lived around the same time. -The two fell in love and lived together, and Aspasia helped Pericles rule Athens. Aspasia was knowledgeable and witty, and she achieved a lot for her female role in Athens. | 11 | |
| 10713376636 | Helots | Slaves to the Spartans that revolted and nearly destroyed Sparta in 650 B.C.E. | 12 |
