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| 320346078 | Foraging Societies | hunter-gatherer clans; traveled from point to point as the climate and availability of plants and animals dictated | 0 | |
| 320346079 | Pastoral Societies | domesticate and heard animals as their primary source of food. Scorn land boundaries b/c they're constantly on the move. | 1 | |
| 320346080 | Cuneiform | The earliest known form of writing, which was used by the Sumerians. The name derives from the wedge shaped marks made with a stylus into soft clay. Used from the 3000s BCE to the 100s BCE. | 2 | |
| 320346081 | Polytheistic | believing in many gods | 3 | |
| 320346082 | Great Royal Road | the longest road built by the Persian Empire; 1600 miles from the Persian Gulf to the Aegean Sea | 4 | |
| 320346083 | Encomienda System | system in Spanish America that gave settlers the right to tax local Indians or to demand their labor in exchange for protecting them and teaching them skills. | 5 | |
| 320346084 | Deism | The religion of the Enlightenment (1700s). Followers believed that God existed and had created the world, but that afterwards He left it to run by its own natural laws. Denied that God communicated to man or in any way influenced his life. | 6 | |
| 320346085 | Treaty of Tordesillas | Which established a line of demarcation on a longitudinal (north-south) line that runs through the western Atlantic Ocean | 7 | |
| 320346086 | Foot binding | practice in Chinese society to mutilate women's feet in order to make them smaller; produced pain and restricted women's movement; made it easier to confine women to the household | 8 | |
| 320346087 | Bushido | traditional code of the Japanese samurai which stressed courage and loyalty and self-discipline and simple living | 9 | |
| 320346088 | Tikal | the most important Maya political center between the 4th-9th centuries. It was a city that had temples, pyramids, palaces, and public buildings. | 10 | |
| 320346089 | Lydians | introduced first coined money | 11 | |
| 320346090 | Queen Hatshepsut | Ruler of Egypt who built impressive monuments and temples, who expanded trade south to Punt on the Red Sea and north to Asia Minor and Greece;ancient Egypt's only woman pharaoh | 12 | |
| 320346091 | Persian Wars | Conflicts between Greek city-states and the Persian Empire, ranging from the Ionian Revolt (499-494 B.C.E.) through Darius's punitive expedition that failed at Marathon. Chronicled by Herodotus. (131) | 13 | |
| 320346092 | Crusades | 1096 Christian Europe aim to reclaim Jerusalem and aid they Byzantines; 1st success and the rest a failure; weakens the Byzantines; opens up trade | 14 | |
| 320346093 | Theocracy | the belief in government by divine guidance | 15 | |
| 320346094 | Code of Chivalry | An honor system that strongly condemned betrayal and promoted mutual respect. | 16 | |
| 320346095 | Black Death | the epidemic form of bubonic plague experienced during the Middle Ages when it killed nearly half the people of western Europe | 17 | |
| 320346096 | Silk Road | an ancient trade route between China and the Mediterranean (4,000 miles) | 18 | |
| 320346097 | Magna Carta | This document, signed by King John of Endland in 1215, is the cornerstone of English justice and law. It declared that the king and government were bound by the same laws as other citizens of England. It contained the antecedents of the ideas of due process and the right to a fair and speedy trial that are included in the protection offered by the U.S. Bill of Rights | 19 | |
| 320346098 | Mansa Musa | this Mali king brought Mali to its peak of power and wealth from 1312 the 1337; he was the most powerful king in west africa | 20 | |
| 320346099 | Louis XVI | The last king of France before the French Revolution; the husband of Marie Antoinette. He at first accepted a change from absolute monarchy to constitutional monarchy in France. Then he tried to flee the country and was brought back a prisoner. Radicals, including the Jacobins, assumed control of the revolution and had Louis and Marie Antoinette beheaded for treason. | 21 | |
| 320346100 | King Henry III | King of England from 1509 to 1547 and founder of the Church of England; he broke with the Catholic Church because the pope would not grant him a divorce | 22 | |
| 320346101 | Mary | First Queen of England by birthright 1553-1558 - switches the religion back to Catholicism. Her nickname is "Bloody Mary" because of all the blood spilled during her reign. | 23 | |
| 320346102 | Queen Elizabeth | daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn; she succeeded the Catholic Mary I and restored Protestantism to England; during her reign Mary Queen of Scots was executed and the Spanish Armada was defeated; her reign was marked by prosperity and literary genius (1533-1603) | 24 |
