2011. Words seventy to one-hundred three.
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| 126620160 | Mauryan Dynasty (Rise and Fall) | First ruler was Chandragupta Maurya; unified much of the entire subcontinent; large armies with thousands of chariots and elephant borne troops; developed a substantial bureaucracy with a postal service; autocratic government. Declined immediately in 232 BCE after Ashoka Maurya died. | 0 | |
| 126620161 | Trade Routes of Mauryan Dynasty | From Eastern Asia to the Meditteranean sea by land (not through Himalayas), around Burma through the Bay of Bengal by sea. | 1 | |
| 126620162 | Ashoka's Policies | Communicated his policies through his realm through inscribing his edicts on stone; unified India through conquest; established a capital city and safe trade routes; built roads to facilitate trade and communication; highly-developed bureaucracy; centralized government; decline when he died. | 2 | |
| 126620163 | Gupta Dynasty (Rise and Fall) | Established tributary alliances to not fight, little crime, science and mathematics. Declined when Huns came crashing through time after time. | 3 | |
| 126620164 | Caste and Jati | A hereditary social class among Indian peoples. Jati based on occupation. | 4 | |
| 126620165 | Minoan and Mycenaean Contributions to Greeks | - Minoan - Linear A, advanced sailing craft of Phoenician design, indoor plumbing and drainage systems. - Mycenaean - Linear B, the Iliad and Odyssey. | 5 | |
| 126620166 | Important Greek Poleis | Sparta and Athens. | 6 | |
| 126620167 | Greek Trade | Linked Greek communities with Anatolia, the Meditteranean islands, and the Black Sea. Greeks offered olive oil and wine, Egypt, Sicily, and Southern Russia had grain, salted fish from Spain and the Black Sea lands, timber and pitch from Macedon, tin from Anatolia, slaves from Egypt and Russia. | 7 | |
| 126620168 | Wars with Persia | Darius mounted attack to Athens, through outnumbered Athenians were victorious. A decade later, Xerxes launched another attack, first burning Athens but then lost in naval warfare. | 8 | |
| 126620169 | The Peloponnesian War | Tensions led to two armed camps, under leadership of Athens and Sparta; unconditional surrender of Athens, 431-404 BCE. | 9 | |
| 126620170 | Age of Pericles | The period between 461 and 429 B.C. when Pericles dominated Athenian politics and Athens reached the height of its power. | 10 | |
| 126620171 | Athenian Republic | Patriarchal, brutal civil war, reforms turned into democratic state. | 11 | |
| 126620172 | Homer | Ancient Greek epic poet who is believed to have written the Iliad and the Odyssey (circa 850 BCE). | 12 | |
| 126620173 | Socrates and Plato | Concluded that the mind is seperate from the body and continues after the body dies, knowledge is innate-born within us. | 13 | |
| 126620174 | Aristotle | Greek philosopher. A pupil of Plato, the tutor of Alexander the Great, and the author of works on logic, metaphysics, ethics, natural sciences, politics, and poetics, he profoundly influenced Western thought. In his philosophical system, which led him to criticize what he saw as Plato's metaphysical excesses, theory follows empirical observation and logic, based on the syllogism, is the essential method of rational inquiry. | 14 | |
| 126620175 | Golden Mean | Aristotle's term for describing ethical behavior as a midpoint between extremes. Everything in moderation. | 15 | |
| 126620176 | Western Scientific Thought | Systematic approach of obervation, hypothesis formation, testing and evaluation that forms the basis for modern science. | 16 | |
| 126620177 | Sophocles | One of the great tragedians of ancient Greece (496-406 BCE), wrote Oepidius Rex. | 17 | |
| 126620178 | Macedon and Philip | Country and leader, expand territory into Central Greece, murdered 336 CE. | 18 | |
| 126620179 | Alexander and His Conquests | Tutored by Aristotle, he became one of history's most successful generals. His conquests included lands like Egypt and the Persian Empire, but in his early 30's he died of a mysterious fever. | 19 | |
| 126620180 | Hellenistic Era | The time started by Alexander the Great (c. 335 BCE) around the Mediteranian and Middle East. Hellenistic means "imitate greeks", and it is called this because the Greeks were spreading their culture in the Middle east and other non-greek eras. It was very big on advancement of science. | 20 | |
| 126620181 | Etruscan Contributions to Rome | An alphabet, how to drain swamps, how to build roads, how to build arches, and how to build aqueducts. | 21 | |
| 126620182 | Roman Republic | The ancient Roman state from 509 BCE until Augustus assumed power in 27 BCE. | 22 | |
| 126620183 | Plebeians vs. Patricians | - Plebeians - Lower on the social structure. - Patricians - Wealthy, wise, upper class. | 23 | |
| 126620184 | Punic Wars | A series of three wars between Rome and Carthage (264-146 BCE); resulted in the destruction of Carthage and Rome's dominance over the western Mediterranean. | 24 | |
| 126620185 | Gracchi Brothers' Reforms | They wanted to limit latifundia land and giving land to the poor. But they both were murdered. | 25 | |
| 126620186 | Julius Caesar | Roman general and dictator. He was murdered by a group of senators and his former friend Brutus who hoped to restore the normal running of the republic. | 26 | |
| 126620187 | Roman Empire | An empire established by Augustus in 27 BCE and divided in 395 CE into the Western Roman Empire and the Eastern or Byzantine Empire. | 27 | |
| 126620188 | Pax Romana and Law | A period of peace and prosperity throughout the Roman Empire, lasting from 27 BCE to CE 180. Twelve Tables - The earliest written collection of Roman laws, drawn up by patricians about 450 BCE, that became the foundation of Roman law. | 28 | |
| 126620189 | Trade, Roads, and Shipping | Outstanding roads bordered the Meditteranean Sea, between Germania and Gaul to Byzantium. | 29 | |
| 126620190 | Paterfamilias and Social Structure | "Father of the Family" - Authority to arrange marriages, determine work, punishment. Roman family consisted of slaves, free servants, and close relatives. By the first century BCE, women supervised financial affairs. | 30 | |
| 126620191 | Fall of Rome | Military interference in politics, civil war and unrest, moving the capital and division of the empire, low confidence, disloyalty, contrast between rich and poor, poor harvests, gold and silver drain, inflation, and threat of attack; immediate causes were pressure from Huns, invasion by Germanic tribes and by Huns, sack of Rome, and conquest by invaders. | 31 | |
| 126620192 | Cultural Diffusion vs. Independent Innovation | In anthropology, the process by which a cultural trait, material object, idea, or behavior pattern is spread from one society to another vs. a culture creating a trait, material object, idea, or behavior pattern that is apart from other societies. | 32 | |
| 127492694 | Aristocracy | A government in which power is in the hands of a hereditary ruling class or nobility. | 33 |
