286182234 | Axum | trading center, and powerful ancient kingdom in northern present-day Ethiopia | 0 | |
286182235 | Animism | the belief that spirits are present in animals, plants, and other natural objects | 1 | |
286182236 | Shintoism | a religion based in Japan, marked by worship of nature and reverence for ancestors | 2 | |
286182237 | Byzantine Empire | (330-1453) The eastern half of the Roman Empire, which survived after the fall of the Western Empire at the end of the 5th century C.E. Its capital was Constantinople, named after the Emperor Constantine. | 3 | |
286182238 | Inca | Largest and most powerful Andean empire. Controlled the Pacific coast of South America from Ecuador to Chile from its capital of Cuzco. | 4 | |
286182239 | Sahara | the world's largest desert (3,500,000 square miles) in northern Africa | 5 | |
286182240 | Pope | the head of the Roman Catholic Church | 6 | |
286182241 | 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. | 7 | |
286182242 | Justinian | Byzantine emperor who held the eastern frontier of his empire against the Persians | 8 | |
286182243 | Polynesian | these people had reached the islands of Fiji and Samoa by 1000 BCE | 9 | |
286182244 | Islam | the monotheistic religion of Muslims founded in Arabia in the 7th century and based on the teachings of Muhammad as laid down in the Koran | 10 | |
286182245 | Yellow Turbans | Chinese Daoists who launched a revolt in China promising a Golden Age to be brought by divine magic | 11 |
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