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| 294561256 | Brahman | the highest of the four varnas: the priestly or sacerdotal category | 0 | |
| 294561257 | Mohenjo-Daro | Indus Valley city laid out in a grid pattern. Had a complex irrigation and sewer system. | 1 | |
| 294561258 | Harappa | Site of one of the great cities of the Indus Valley civilization of the third millennium B.C.E. It was located on the northwest frontier of the zone of cultivation , and may have been a center for the acquisition of raw materials. (p. 48) | 2 | |
| 294561259 | Indus River | an Asian river | 3 | |
| 294561260 | Punjab | a historical region on northwestern India and northern Pakistan | 4 | |
| 294561261 | Ganges River | an Asian river | 5 | |
| 294561262 | Xia dynasty | This was the earliest known dynasty. There is no written evidence of this early time period, but artifacts have been found. The people of this time were farmers and made pottery. | 6 | |
| 294561263 | Shang dynasty | the imperial dynasty ruling China from about the 18th to the 12th centuries BC | 7 | |
| 294561264 | Zhou dynasty | the imperial dynasty of China from 1122 to 221 BC | 8 | |
| 294561265 | Qin dynasty | the Chinese dynasty (from 246 BC to 206 BC) that established the first centralized imperial government and built much of the Great Wall | 9 | |
| 294561266 | Oracle bones | animal bones carved with written characters which were used for telling the future | 10 | |
| 294561267 | Confucius | Chinese philosopher (circa 551-478 BC) | 11 | |
| 294561268 | Huang He River | river with deadly floods, in northern china, 3,395 miles long, carries loess, often call Yellow River | 12 | |
| 294561269 | Yangzi River | River in Central China. | 13 | |
| 294561270 | Steppe lands | -semiarid grasslands -stretch from Russia to the Great Wall of CHina | 14 | |
| 294561271 | Ao | blue | 15 | |
| 294561272 | Chu | of course - use at the end of sentence | 16 | |
| 294561273 | Olmec calendar | this culture developed a calendar to keep track of religious ceremonies | 17 | |
| 294561274 | Mayan calendar | reflected a powerful urge to identify meaningful cycles of time and to understand human events in the context of those cycles. It consisted of two kinds of years, a solar year that consisted of 365 days for agriculture, and a ritual year for daily affairs. | 18 | |
| 294561275 | Chavin cult | a new religion that appeared in the Andes mountains after 1000 BCE; enjoyed enormous popularity during the 900 to 800 BCE; spread in the area of modern Peru; vanished about 300 BCE; no information survives on the significance of the cults | 19 | |
| 294561276 | Aboriginal | having existed from the beginning | 20 | |
| 294561277 | Pyramid of the Sun | Pyramid found in ancient Teotihuacan, it was 200-feet tall and had a base larger than that of the Great Pyramid in Egypt. | 21 | |
| 294561278 | Lapita | Society from New Guinea to Tonga (1500-500 B.C.E.) with agricultural villages, networks of trade and communication, and hierarchical chiefdoms. | 22 | |
| 294561279 | Olmecs | (1400 B.C.E. to 500 B.C.E.) earliest known Mexican civilization,lived in rainforests along the Gulf of Mexico, developed calendar and constructed public buildings and temples, carried on trade with other groups. | 23 | |
| 294561280 | Maya | a family of American Indian languages spoken by Mayan peoples | 24 | |
| 294561281 | Mochica | Mochica is a society in the Andean valleys, near the Moche River, that left behind a remarkable artistic legacy. They made ceramics that represented gods and everyday life. | 25 | |
| 294561282 | Tikal | the most important Maya political center between the 4th-9th centuries. It was a city that had temples, pyramids, palaces, and public buildings. | 26 | |
| 294561283 | Teotihuacan | A powerful city-state in central Mexico (100-75 C.E.). Its population was about 150,000 at its peak in 600. | 27 | |
| 294561284 | Mesoamerica | Mexico and Central America | 28 | |
| 294561285 | Andes | a mountain range in South America running 5000 miles along the Pacific coast | 29 | |
| 294561286 | Bering Strait | a strait connecting the Bering Sea to the Arctic Ocean | 30 | |
| 294561287 | Oceania | a large group of islands in the south Pacific including Melanesia and Micronesia and Polynesia (and sometimes Australasia and the Malay Archipelago) | 31 | |
| 294561288 | Achaemenid | 558- 333B.C.E, first Persian Empire, founded by Cyrus who capitalized on weakening Syrian and Babylonian empires. Peak was under Darius | 32 | |
| 294561289 | Seleucid | one of the three regions of Alexander's empire; contained Bactria and Anatolia | 33 | |
| 294561290 | Parthian | a native or inhabitant of Parthia | 34 | |
| 294561291 | Sasanid | group from Persia who defeated the Parthians and ruled until 651 CE Shapur I-alive from 239-272 CE, emperor that stabilized the western frontier of the empire | 35 | |
| 294561292 | Satrapy | one of the 20 provinces in which Darius divided the Persian Empire | 36 | |
| 294561293 | Zoroastrianism | system of religion founded in Persia in the 6th century BC by Zoroaster | 37 | |
| 294561294 | Ahura Mazda | chief deity of Zoroastrianism | 38 | |
| 294561295 | Angra Mainyu | Zarathustra's name for the destructive spirit, the devil; also known as Ahriman. | 39 | |
| 294561296 | Gathas | Hymns or poems written by Zarathustra; considered to be the most authoritative expressions of the Zoroastrian religion. | 40 | |
| 294561297 | Darius | the great king of persia. he was able to become king after a year of a civil war following the death of someone. | 41 | |
| 294561298 | Xerxes | son of Darius; became Persian king. He vowed revenge on the Athenians. He invaded Greece with 180,000 troops in 480 B.C. | 42 | |
| 294561299 | Alexander of Macedon | The son of King Philip who inherited all of his father's army. A very powerful and successful leader. He and his army conquered all of Persia and into India. He neglected to appoint a successor so all his conquered land was split up and distributed. | 43 | |
| 294561300 | Persepolis | an ancient city that was the capital of the ancient Persian Empire | 44 | |
| 294561301 | Zarathustra | Persian prophet who founded Zoroastrianism (circa 628-551 BC) | 45 | |
| 294561302 | Junzi | a term created by Confucius to describe his ideal human. Often translated as "gentleman" or "superior person" the junzi literally means "ruler's son". Despite its literal meaning, any righteous man willing to improve himself can become a junzi. | 46 | |
| 294561303 | Ren | kidney | 47 | |
| 294561304 | Li | Chinese distance measure | 48 | |
| 294561305 | Xiao | small | 49 |
