those most-missed terms
67887826 | Alexander | "Great" Persian ruler who briefly controlled northeaster India around 500 BCE | 0 | |
67887827 | Mauryan | Dynasty that ruled the first great Indian Empire | 1 | |
67887828 | Gupta | Rulers who controlled India during a "golden age" from 320 C.E. to about 550 C.E. | 2 | |
67887829 | Vishun, Brahma, Shiva | Three gods of the Hindu trinity | 3 | |
67887830 | "Arabic" numerals | Essential advancement in mathematics invented in India, concept of 0 | 4 | |
67887831 | Stupas | Sacred mounds said to contain remians of the Buddha | 5 | |
67887832 | Brahmins | Group that opposed Buddhism in India | 6 | |
67887833 | Eightfold Path | The road to enlightenment, according to the Buddha | 7 | |
67887834 | Mahayana, Theravada | Two major schools that Buddhism split into | 8 | |
67887835 | Berbers | Original inhabitants of North Africa, fiercely independent desert dwellers | 9 | |
67887836 | Bantu | West African farmers and herders who spread widely south and east between 500 BCE and 1500 CE | 10 | |
67887837 | Mansa Musa | Great Mali ruler who gave away vast amounts of gold on his hajj to Mecca | 11 | |
67887838 | Ibn Battuta | North African traveler and historian who wrote in detail about his journeys throu Islamic Africa in the 1300s | 12 | |
67887839 | Timbuktu | Famous Mali trading city and center of Musli learning | 13 | |
67887840 | Ghana | Earliest kingdom of the wester Sudan, it flourished from the 700s to the mid-100s | 14 | |
67887841 | Mali | Kingdom that controlled much of western Africa from the 1200s until about 1500 | 15 | |
67887842 | Songhai | West African empire that flourished in the 1400s and 1500s, overthrown by Moroccans in 1591 | 16 | |
67887843 | Meroe | Capital of the Ancient Nubian Kingdom of Kush, and an important African iron-making center | 17 | |
67887844 | Civil Service Exams | Method of choosing government officials which originated in China during the 6th century; helped to strengthen administrative rule of China | 18 | |
67887845 | Liu Bang | Han Dynasty was founded by this person in 200 BCE that lasted for over 400 years | 19 | |
67887846 | Confucian scholars | People killed by the thousands by China's "first emperor" who united China, he also banned many schools of thought & instituted Legalism during the Qin Dynasty | 20 | |
67887847 | Wudi | Han warrior emperor who greatly expanded the empire | 21 | |
67887848 | Shi HuangDi | The "First Emperor" who unified China during the Qin Dynasty, terra cotta army, Great Wall, Legalism | 22 | |
67887849 | Laozi | Founder of the pilosophy of Daoism | 23 | |
67887850 | filial piety | According to Confucious, this was a son or daughter's most important duty | 24 | |
67887851 | The Analects | Written collection of the sayings of Confucius | 25 | |
67887852 | Assimilation | Policy toward conquered people promoted byt the Han and Roman Empires | 26 | |
67887853 | Il-Khanate | Political state established in Persia in the 13th century, considered a part of the Mongol Empire | 27 | |
67887854 | Temujin | Genghis Khan's birth name | 28 | |
67887855 | Yuan Dynasty | Name of the Mongol dynasty in China | 29 | |
67887856 | Akbar | Chief builder of the Mughal empire, the founder's grandson, called "the great" | 30 | |
67887857 | Timur the Lame/Tamerlane | Warrior leader from Central Asia whose army destroyed Delhi in 1398 | 31 | |
67887858 | Delhi Sultanate | Capital of the Islamic Sultanate that ruled much of northern India from 1206 to 1526 | 32 | |
67887859 | Babur | Founder of the Mughal Empire in 1526 | 33 | |
67887860 | Abbas the Great | Most outstanding Safavid ruler | 34 | |
67887861 | Crusades | Wester attacks against the medieval Islamic Eljuk Empire in Palestine | 35 | |
67887862 | Seljuk Empire | The Mongols crushed the remnants of this Central Asian state in the 13th century | 36 | |
67887863 | Isma'il | Teenage ruler who established the Safavid Empire | 37 | |
67887864 | millets | Non-Muslim religious communities in the Ottoman Empire | 38 | |
67887865 | 5 | The grade you'll earn tomorrow on your AP World History exam =D | 39 |