Chapter 5
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| 298959382 | Axum | Kingdom located in Ethiopian highlands; replaced Meroe in first century C.E.; received strong influencs from Arabian peninsula; eventually converted to Christianity. | 0 | |
| 298959383 | Ethiopia | a Christian kingdom that developed in the highlands of eastern Africa under the dynasty of King Lalaibela; retained Christianity in the face of Muslim expansion elsewhere in Africa | 1 | |
| 298959384 | Sahara | Desert running across northern Africa; seperates the Mediterranean coast from southern Africa. | 2 | |
| 298959385 | Shintoism | Religion located in Japan and related to Buddhism. Shintoism focuses particularly on nature and ancestor worship. | 3 | |
| 298959386 | Olmec culture | Cultural tradition that arose at San Lorenzo and La Venta in Mexico circa 1,200 BCE; featured irrigated agriculture, urbanism, elaborate religion, beginnings of calendrical and writing systems | 4 | |
| 298959387 | Teotihuacan | Site of classic culture in central Mexico; urban center with important religious functions; supported by intensive agriculture in surrounding regions; population of as much as 200,000. | 5 | |
| 298959388 | Maya | Classic culture emerging in southern Mexico and Central American contemporary with Teotihuacán; extended over broad religion; featured monumental architecture, written language, calendrical and mathematical systems, highly developed religion. | 6 | |
| 298959389 | Inca | Group of clans centered at Cuzco that were able to create an empire incorporationg various Andean cultures; term also used for leader of empire. | 7 | |
| 298959390 | Polynesian | Islands contained in a rough triangle whose points lie in Hawaii, New Zealand, and and Easter Island. | 8 | |
| 298959391 | Turbans | traditionally Muslim headdresses made of a long scarf of linen, cotton, or silk that is wound around a small cap or directly around the head | 9 | |
| 298959392 | Sui | Dynasty that succeeded the Han in China; emerged from strong rulers in northern China; united all of northern China and conquered southern China. | 10 | |
| 298959393 | Shang | First Chinese dynasty for which archeological evidence exists; capital located in Ordos bulge of the Huanghe; flourished 1600 to 1046 B.C.E. | 11 | |
| 298959394 | Rajput | Regional princes in western India; emphasized military control of their regions. | 12 | |
| 298959395 | Devi | mother goddess within Hinduism; devotion to her spread widely after the collapse of the Gupta and encouraged new emotionalism in religious ritual. | 13 | |
| 298959396 | Islam | Major world religion having its origins in 610 C.E. in the Arabian peninsula; meaning literally submission; based on prophecy of Muhammad. | 14 | |
| 298959397 | Allah | Supreme God in strict monotheistic Islam. | 15 | |
| 298959398 | Byzantine Empire | Historians' name for the eastern portion of the Roman Empire from the fourth century onward, taken from 'Byzantion,' an early name for Constantinople, the Byzantine capital city. The empire fell to the Ottomans in 1453. | 16 | |
| 298959399 | Justinian | Byzantine emperor in the 6th century A.D. who reconquered much of the territory previously ruled by Rome, initiated an ambitious building program , including Hagia Sofia, as well as a new legal code | 17 | |
| 298959400 | Augustine | influential church father and theologian; Bishop of Hippo; champion of Christian doctrine against various heresies and very important in the long-term development of Christian thought on such issues as predestination | 18 | |
| 298959401 | Coptic | Ancient church of ethiopia | 19 | |
| 298959402 | bidhisattvas | Those on the path to enlightenment Theravada- see only one Mahayana- believe many, anyone can ahieve full enlightenment | 20 | |
| 298959403 | Mahayana | Chinese version of Buddhism; placed considerable emphasis on Buddha as god or savior | 21 | |
| 298959404 | Jesus of Nazareth | Prophwt and teacher among the Jews; believed by Christians to be the Messiah; executed c. 30 C.E. | 22 | |
| 298959405 | Paul | One of the first Christian missionaries; moved away from insistence that adherents of the new religion follow Jewish law; use of Greek as language of Church. | 23 | |
| 298959406 | pope | Bishop of Rome; head of Christian church in western Europe. | 24 | |
| 298959407 | Benedict | Founder of monasticism in what had been the western half of the Roman Empire; established Benedictine Rule in the 6th century; paralleled development of Basil's rules in Byzantine Empire. | 25 | |
| 298959408 | animism | religious outlook that sees gods in many aspects of nature and propitiates them to help control and explain nature; typical of Mesopotamian religions. | 26 |
