Chapter 5 Vocab from the textbook:
World Civilizations: The Global Experience, Fifth Edition by Peter N. Stearns
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| 86416772 | Kush | an ancient nubian kingdom whose rulers contolled egypt between 2000 and 1000 B.C. | 0 | |
| 86416773 | Axum | trading center, and powerful ancient kingdom in northern present-day Ethiopia | 1 | |
| 86416774 | Ethiopia | a Christian kingdom that developed in the highlands of eastern Africa under the dynasty of King Lalaibela; retained Christianity in the face of Muslim expansion elsewhere in Africa | 2 | |
| 86416775 | Shintoism | Shinto means the way of the gods and was the traditional religion of Japan. | 3 | |
| 86416776 | Olmec | a member of an early Mesoamerican civilization contered around Veracruz that flourished between 1300 and 400 BC | 4 | |
| 86416777 | Teotihuacan | A powerful city-state in central Mexico (100-75 C.E.). Its population was about 150,000 at its peak in 600. (p. 300) | 5 | |
| 86416778 | 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. | 6 | |
| 86416779 | Inca | a member of the small group of Quechuan people living in the Cuzco valley in Peru who established hegemony over their neighbors to create the great Inca empire that lasted from about 1100 until the Spanish conquest in the early 1530s | 7 | |
| 86416780 | Polynesian | these people had reached the islands of Fiji and Samoa by 1000 BCE | 8 | |
| 86416781 | Yellow Turbans | Chinese Daoists who launched a revolt in 184 C.E., promising a golden age to be brought about by divine magic. | 9 | |
| 86416782 | Sui | himself, herself, itself, themselves | 10 | |
| 86416783 | Tang | the imperial dynasty of China from 618 to 907 | 11 | |
| 86416784 | Rajput | Regional princes in India following collapse of empire; emphasized military control of their regions | 12 | |
| 86416785 | Devi | the great goddess, the source and summation of all female deities and the power that animates the entire cosmos | 13 | |
| 86416786 | Islam | the religion practiced by Muslims; Islam means "submission to the will of God." | 14 | |
| 86416787 | Allah | Muslim name for the one and only God | 15 | |
| 86416788 | Diocletian | This emperor divided up the empire into east/west and made two rulers for each section with direct sub-rulers for each | 16 | |
| 86416789 | Constantine | Emperor of Rome who adopted the Christian faith and stopped the persecution of Christians (280-337) | 17 | |
| 86416790 | Germanic Tribes | invaded the Roman Empire from the North and East, caused the fall of Rome | 18 | |
| 86416791 | Huns | Warlike people who migrated from Eastern Europe into territory controlled by Germanic tribes, forcing them to move into areas controlled by Rome | 19 | |
| 86416792 | Byzantine | a native or inhabitant of Byzantium or of the Byzantine Empire | 20 | |
| 86416793 | Justinian | Byzantine emperor in the 6th century A.D. who reconquered much of the territory previously ruler by Rome, initiated an ambitious building program , including Hagia Sofia, as well as a new legal code | 21 | |
| 86416794 | Sassanid | Empire that developed in the Middle East in 227 CE, attempted to revive the glories of the Persian Empire (including a revival of the Persian religion Zoroastrianism) | 22 | |
| 86416795 | Augustine | (Roman Catholic Church) one of the great fathers of the early Christian church | 23 | |
| 86416796 | Coptic | language spoken/written in Egypt that followed ancient Egyptian language and contained some ancient Egyptian words | 24 | |
| 86416797 | bodhisattvas | enlightened persons who have postponed nirvana to help others attain enlightenment | 25 | |
| 86416798 | Mahayana | one of two great schools of Buddhist doctrine emphasizing a common search for universal salvation especially through faith alone | 26 | |
| 86416799 | Jesus | A teacher and prophet whose life and teachings form the basis of Christianity. Christians believe Jesus to be Son of God and the Christ. | 27 | |
| 86416800 | Paul | A Jew from the Greek city of Tarsus in Anatolia, he initially persecuted the followers of Jesus but, after receiving a revelation on the road to Syrian Damascus, became a Christian. | 28 | |
| 86416801 | Benedict | 480-547 Italian monk; founder of the Benedictine order | 29 | |
| 86416802 | Pope | Head of the Roman Catholic Church | 30 | |
| 86416803 | World Religions | Judiasim: Jew; Islam: Muslam; Christianity; Christian; Buddhism: Buddhist; Hinduism: Hindu; Atheism: Atheist | 31 | |
| 86416804 | Sahara | the world's largest desert (3,500,000 square miles) in northern Africa | 32 | |
| 86416805 | Animism | Belief that objects, such as plants and stones, or natural events, like thunderstorms and earthquakes, have a discrete spirit and conscious life. | 33 |
