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| 336156944 | POWS (period of warring states) | A period of political disunity in China that led to the cultural developments of Daoism, Legalism, Confucianism in search of order. | 0 | |
| 336156945 | Paul of tarsus | A significant early missionary given credit for spreading Christianity through his written works in the New Testament | 1 | |
| 336156946 | Aryans | A group of Indo-Euro Nomads that brought beliefs like the caste system and Hinduism to India probably through conquest of the earlier Davidians | 2 | |
| 336156947 | decentralized | Gov't where power is divided into many places. Ex: India, Mesopotamia, Greece, Mayans Europe during post classical era. | 3 | |
| 336156948 | Polis | Specific Greek term that applies to the city states that developed in the Golden age of Greece. EX: Athens and Sparta | 4 | |
| 336156949 | Silk Roads | Trade route during the classical period | 5 | |
| 336169090 | Alphabet | a character set that includes letters and is used to write a language | 6 | |
| 336169091 | Huns | Nomads that caused a collapse of LPE's (end of classical period) | 7 | |
| 336169092 | monumental architecture | Large buildings that unified ppl & were based the culture of society Ex: Pyramids | 8 | |
| 336169093 | Alexander the Great | King of Macedon, studied under Aristotle, conquered much of the middle east all the way to the north of India and left a lasting Greek imprint in the area. | 9 | |
| 336169094 | Ashoka | Mauryan emperor that established Buddhism as the state religion | 10 | |
| 336169095 | syncretism | the fusion of 2 or more belief systems, often occurring with a universalizing religion meets regional customs | 11 | |
| 336169096 | Confucianism | Chinese beliefs based on deference and respect to superiors, meant to restore order to Chinese society,. this ideology placed heavy emphasis on education, filial piety and respect fro the emperor. | 12 | |
| 336169097 | zigurat | Mesopotamian, stepped temples often at the center of each city-state's geography and culture. | 13 | |
| 336169098 | Hellenization | the spread of Greek culture, particularly in the period between the golden age of Greece and the rise of the roman republic | 14 | |
| 336327707 | Vedic tradition | ancient oral tradition of knowledge that arrived in India and ultimately developed into Hinduism | 15 | |
| 336327708 | Analects | One of the "4 books" of Confucianism, contains speeches and discussions held by Confucius. | 16 | |
| 336327709 | Hammurabi Code | Early Mesopotamian law code known as "eye 4 and eye" or lex talionis, but the code differentiate based on class and gender. | 17 | |
| 336327710 | Royal roads | Persian highway built from Susa to Sardis for communication. This integrated Persia into the larger trade framework of the Classical Period | 18 | |
| 336327711 | Shihuangdi | Self-declared first emperor, this chinese ruler ended the POWS and buitl the terracotta army and started the Great Wall | 19 | |
| 336327712 | xuanzang | a young Buddhist monk who traveled to India to learn more of Buddhism. his travels inspired the book, "journey to the West" | 20 | |
| 336327713 | phonecians | Ancient group of people that lived in the Fertile Crescent. They used the 1st alphabet, the 1 that all current ones are based upon | 21 | |
| 336327714 | kublai khan | 4th Great Khan of the Mongol empire, this man dounded the Yuan dynasty | 22 | |
| 336327715 | Aztec | Mesoamerican empire the located in Mexico. capital is now modern day Mexico city (Tenochitilan) | 23 | |
| 336327716 | Jizya | Islamic law uses this as a per-capital tax levied on the state's non-Muslim citizens, particularly on "ppl of the book" | 24 | |
| 336327717 | Justinian | byzantine emperor. conquered Rome from vandals. revamped old roman civil law and building of the hagia Sophia | 25 | |
| 336327718 | bread and circuses | public entertainment that roman elites used to keep the plebeians happy and distracted from problems in the empire | 26 | |
| 336327719 | neo Confucianism | blended Chinese philosophy incorporated existing Chinese beliefs with Buddhism which was introduced in the late classical period | 27 | |
| 336327720 | chinggis khan | leader and founder of the mongol empire, largest land empire. created pax mongolia where trade flourished | 28 | |
| 336327721 | inca | largest mesoamerican empire b4 comlumbus came, (based in Peru) and inlcluded ecuador, bolivia, argentina, and chile | 29 | |
| 336327722 | mansa musa | muslim mali "kings of kings" that took a pilgramage to Mecca. taking a large amount of gold and servants with him | 30 | |
| 336327723 | sundiata | foudner of the Mali empire, and the subj. for the historical epic w/ the same name | 31 | |
| 336327724 | crusade | serious of religious wars from Europeans to recover the "holy land" from the Muslims. A major result of these wars was the Europe once more entered global market | 32 | |
| 336327725 | vikings | Norse explorers who acted as warriors, merchants, and even pirates. They lived in Europe and dominated the North Atlantic islands but traveled as far as America and Asia | 33 | |
| 336327726 | zhu chi | leading figure in the School of Principle, the Neo-Confucian stressed the importance of the 4 books | 34 | |
| 336327727 | chinampas | method of ancient mesoamerican agriculture which used small rectangle shaped areas of fertile arable land to grow crows such as corn 9maize) son the shallow lake beds in the Valley of Mexico | 35 | |
| 336327728 | abasid caliphate | Islamic theocracy w/ their capital @ Baghdad established 8th c. CE this empire extensively traded on the Silk Roads and Indian ocean | 36 | |
| 336327729 | epic of gilgamesh | epic poem form Mesopotamia, 1 of the earliest known works of literature. the poem revolves the king of the same name and Enkidu | 37 |
