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| 176400646 | Sedentary | remaining in the same area throughout the year, not nomadic | 0 | |
| 176400647 | River Valley Civilizations | Tigres/Euphrates (Iraq), Nile River (Egypt), Indus River (India), and Huang He River (China) - first civilizations, they created a basic set of tools, intellectual concepts such as writing and mathematics, and political forms that would persist and spread to other parts of Europe, Asia, and Africa. Most were in decline by 1000 BC. | 1 | |
| 176400648 | Hammurabi | King of the Babylonian empire; creator of the Code of Hammurabi, one of the world's oldest codes of law. | 2 | |
| 176400649 | Agriculture | The raising of crops and animals for human use | 3 | |
| 176400650 | Neolithic Revolution | This social revolution was also known as the New Stone Age where people changed from hunting and gathering food to domesticating animals and cultivating land as farmers. | 4 | |
| 176400651 | Agricultural civilizations | producing their own food through domestication of animals and settled farming created the potential for job specialization, which can lead to commerce and cities supported by the farmers' surplus + permanent settlements = more time = complex cultures; WATER TRADE and FERTILE SOIL | 5 | |
| 176400652 | Hwang He | Yellow River in China (also Huang He);The majority of ancient Chinese civilizations originated in the Yellow River Valley; also known as River of Tears because of its flooding; yellow color of silt is from loess | 6 | |
| 176400653 | Son of Heaven | Title of the ruler of China, first known from the Zhou dynasty. It acknowledges the ruler's position as intermediary between heaven and earth. | 7 | |
| 176400654 | Confucianism | a philosophy of ethics, education, and public service based on the writings of Confucius and traditionally thought of as one of the core elements of Chinese culture | 8 | |
| 176400655 | Daoism | philosophy based on ideas of the Chinese thinker Laozi, who taught that people should be guided by a universal force called Dao | 9 | |
| 176400656 | Chinese dynasties | xia, shang, chou, chin, han, sui, tang, song, yaun, ming, ch'ing | 10 | |
| 176400657 | Hinduism | A religion native to India, featuring belief in many gods and reincarnation; today's largest religion in India | 11 | |
| 176400658 | Buddhism | This religion was founded by Siddhartha Gautama and explained the way to salvation through self-discipline and poverty. It evolved from Hinduism in northern India and Nepal. | 12 | |
| 176400659 | Caste system | System in India that gives every Indian a particular place in the social hierarchy from birth. Individuals may improve the position they inherit in the caste system in their next life through their actions, or karma. After many lives of good karma, they may be relieved from cycle of life and win their place in heaven. | 13 | |
| 176400660 | Polytheism | Belief in or worship of more than one god, or many gods. | 14 | |
| 176400661 | Monotheism | Belief in a single divine entity. The Israelite worship of Yahweh developed into an exclusive belief in one god, and this concept passed into Christianity and Islam. (102) | 15 | |
| 176400662 | Roman Empire | The territories ruled by ancient Rome which at one time encompassed most of the Mediterranean world and parts of France, England, and Germany. The empire lasted from Augustus in 27 BCE to 395 CE when it was divided into the Western Roman Empire and the Eastern or Byzantine Empire. | 16 | |
| 176400663 | Collapse of Classical Empires | Persia, Greece under Alexander the Great, Rome, China during the Qin and Han dynasties, India during the Mauryan and Gupta empires.... | 17 | |
| 176400664 | Islam | A religion based on the teachings of the prophet Mohammed which stresses belief in one god (Allah), Paradise and Hell, and a body of law written in the Quran. Followers are called Muslims. | 18 | |
| 176400665 | Rise of Islam | 7th century CE; Started in Arabian peninsula, took a decade to extend from Spain to central Asia and classic civilizations from Greece, Egypt and Persia.... | 19 | |
| 176400666 | Spread of Islam | spread through: trade, teaching, traders marrying and having kids with people in different areas (that they traded with), military conquest.... | 20 | |
| 176400667 | Muhammad | Came from family of merchants. Founded Islam. Believed he was the final prophet. Learned of Christianity and Judaism from merchants. Believed Gabriel the archangel told him he was god's prophet. Wrote the Koran. Forced out of Mecca to Medina. | 21 | |
| 176400668 | Ka'ba | Most revered religious shrine in Pre-Islamic Arabia; located in Mecca; focus of obligatory annual truce among bedouin tribes; later incorporated as important Shrine in Islam, "cube" shaped | 22 | |
| 176400669 | Mecca | City in western Arabia; birthplace of the Prophet Muhammad, and ritual center of the Islamic religion. | 23 | |
| 176400670 | Medina | City in western Arabia to which the Prophet Muhammad and his followers emigrated in 622 to escape persecution in Mecca. (p. 231) | 24 | |
| 176400671 | Umayyad | Sunni dynasty that controlled the Muslim world from 661-750 AD; capital was Damascus | 25 | |
| 176400672 | Abbasid | dynasty that overthew the Umayyad dynasty to rule to Muslim caliphate from 750-1258; for 150 years the Abbasids maintained the unity of the caliphate and Islamic culture and civilization flourished | 26 | |
| 176400673 | Ali | the fourth caliph of Islam who is considered to be the first caliph by Shi'ites; Prophet Muhammad's son-in-law; a leading figure in the Shi'a branch of Islam | 27 | |
| 176400674 | Caliph | "Successor to the prophet", a title taken by Muslim rulers who claimed religious authority to rule | 28 | |
| 176400675 | Sunni | Largest of the two main branches of Islam, whose members acknowledge the first four caliphs as the rightful successors of Muhammad; called the orthodox or traditionalist and they differ from the Shiites in accepting the traditions (sunna) of Muhammad as authoritative; believe that caliphs do not need to be descendants of Muhammad | 29 | |
| 176400676 | Shi'i | "partisans of Ali"; the second and smaller division of Islam (now dominant in Iraq and Iran), originating as a result of an early dispute over leadership; distinguishable from Sunni Islam mainly by its figure of the Imam and strong messianic expectations; believe that leaders should be descendants of Muhammad | 30 | |
| 176400677 | Sufi | A member of the more mystical third sect of Islam; name the variant of Islam the Safavid dynasty began from | 31 |
