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| 223884835 | Kush 1000 BCE | an independent kindom flourishing along the upper Nile River | 0 | |
| 223884836 | Olmec c 800-400 BCE | Central America's first civilization which dev. agriculture and produced accurate calendars. Had a POWERFUL influence on later American cultures | 1 | |
| 223884837 | Teotihuacan c 400 BCE-400 CE | Followed the Olmec. Built the first great city in the Americas and dev. the first alphabet | 2 | |
| 223884838 | Inca | American culture center in Andes Mountains. Domesticated the llama | 3 | |
| 223884839 | Polynesian Peoples | island civilizations that reached Fiji and Samoa by 1000 BCE and Hawaii by 400 CE. They adapted lacal plants, introduced new animals, and imported a caste system led by a local king | 4 | |
| 223884840 | Yellow Turbans | During the decline of classical China they were a Daoist group that promised a golden age that was to be brought about by divine magic | 5 | |
| 223884841 | Rajput | Regional Indian princes who ruled after the fall of the guptas | 6 | |
| 223884842 | Devi | The mother goddess of Hinduism. The worship of this deity encouraged new emotionalism in the religion | 7 | |
| 223884843 | Allah | Sole deity in the Islamic faith | 8 | |
| 223884844 | Consantinople | Center of the Roman Empire after 312 CE, established by the last strong emperor, Constantine | 9 | |
| 223884845 | Byzantine Empire | Successor to the Roman Empire in the E. Mediterranean. It was artistically creative and active in trade. Its emperors, esp. in Justinian, tried to revive the heritage of Rome throughout its previous territory but failed. Many centuries of fighting Muslims led to its demise in 1453 | 10 | |
| 223884846 | Augustinie | One of the greatest Christian theologians. Bishop of Alexandria, Egypt | 11 | |
| 223884847 | Coptic Christianity | Largest branch of African Christianity, centered in Egypt | 12 | |
| 223884848 | Syncretism | The blending of cultures. | 13 | |
| 223884849 | Bodhisattvas | Buddhist doctrine that held that some people could gain nirvana through meditation. This shows that Buddhism shifted from a system of ethics into a more emotional belief | 14 | |
| 223884850 | Mahayana | or the "Greater Vehicle" E. Asian form of Buddhism that emphasized its founder as a divine savior | 15 | |
| 223884851 | 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 | 16 | |
| 223884852 | Maya 300-900 CE | Classic culture emerging in S Mexico and Central America contemorary with Teotihuacan; extended over a broad region; ft. monumental architecture, written lang, calendrical and mathematical systems, and highly dev. religion | 17 | |
| 223897749 | Axum and Ethiopia | Axum defeated Kush around 300 BCE. Ethiopia then defeated Axum. Both these African kingdoms had active contacts with the E Mediterranean world unitll after Rome's fall | 18 | |
| 223897750 | Shintoism | Japanese religion that provided for worship of political rulers and spirits of nature. This was the basis for teh worship of the Japanese emperor as a religious figure | 19 | |
| 223897751 | Sui and Tang | Chinese Dynasties following the fall of the Han. Under Tang leadership esp., China enjoyed one of the most glorious eras in its history. Confucianism and the bureaucracy were revived | 20 | |
| 223897752 | Jesus of Nazareth | Jewish teacher who preached reforms in Judaism. His followers believed him to be the Messiah, the savior sent by God to redeem humanity. Over time, his disciples spread Jesus' message of compassion and piety throughout the Roman Empire | 21 | |
| 223897753 | Paul | Early Christian leader who saw the faith in a different light. Instead of a reform of Judaism, Paul helped turn the faith into a new religion that welcoed non-Jews | 22 | |
| 223897754 | Sahara | Vast desert region of N Africa which extends from Atlantic Ocean to the Nile River | 23 | |
| 223897755 | Islam | Monotheistic religion in which the supreme being is Allah and the chief prophet and founder is Mohammad; dev. in the Arabian peninsula in the 7th century CE | 24 | |
| 223897756 | Animism | a belief in the existence of many spirits and demons which are found in the natural world | 25 |
