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12077333434Catal Huyuk, TurkeyBest Early example of early neolithic towns0
12077333435NomadsHunter-Gathers, travel from place to place1
12077333436PastroalistsBranch of agriculture, use herds to affect environment2
12077333437Silk RoadMost important land trading route3
12077333438Mespotamiathe land between the rivers, Tigris and Euphrates, on the Eastern part of the Fertile Cresent4
12077333439Kushan EmpireRegion in south africa5
12077333440Axum/EthiopiaKingdoms of sub-Saharan east Africa based on Christianity6
12077333441CuneiformA form of writing developed by the Sumerians using a wedge shaped stylus and clay tablets.7
12077333442ideographs (ideograms)Images that represent an idea, such as a heart representing love.8
12077333443Zhou, Qin, HanClassical Chinese dynasties9
12077333444Confucianism/ConfuciusConfucius was a scholar Confucianism stated that everybody had a role in society and they should behave/beware of hierarchy10
12077333445Xi'an/ Chang'anCapital of Han Dynasty11
12077333446Silk RoadMost important land trading route12
12077333447AshokaLeader of the Mauryan dynasty of India.13
12077333448HinduismA religion developed in ancient India, characterized by a belief in reincarnation and a supreme being who takes many forms14
12077333449Buddhisma religion based on the teachings of the Buddha that developed in India15
12077333450Chandragupta Mauryafounder of the Mauryan Empire16
12077333451Mauryan EmpireThis was the first centralized empire of India whose founder was Chandragupta Maurya.17
12077333452Gupta EmpireThe decentralized empire that emerged after the Mauryan Empire, and whose founder is Chandra Gupta.18
12077333453Zoroastrianismsystem of religion founded in Persia in the 6th century BC by Zoroaster noun19
12077333454HellenismGreek culture spread across western Asia and northeastern Africa after the conquests of Alexander the Great.20
12077333455Punic WarsWars fought between Rome and Carthage21
12077333456Julius CaesarRoman general who became the republic's dictator22
12077333457ConstantineEmperor of Rome who adopted the Christian faith and stopped the persecution of Christians23
12077333458DiocletianRoman emperor who divided the empire into a West and an East section.24
12077333459ByzantiumCity in eastern Roman Empire that eventually became constantonopal25
12077333460RomeCapital city of the Roman Empire26
12077333461ShintoismReligion located in Japan and related to Buddhism. Shintoism focuses particularly on nature and ancestor worship.27
12077333462Islam: MuhammadFrom Mecca; unified Arabia into a single religious policy under Islam28
12077333463CaliphA supreme political and religious leader in a Muslim government29
12077333464Umayyadthe first dynasty of Arab caliphs whose capital was Damascus30
12077333465Abbasid EmpireGolden age of Islam, capital in Baghdad,31
12077333466Battle of SiffinFirst Muslim civil war July 26- July 28th; negotiation led to fragmentation of Ali's party.32
12117200836Battle of TalasBattle between the Tang Dynasty and the Muslims. Muslims win the Battle and stop Chinese western expansion. Diffusion of culture and technology33
12117206555Karbalaa city in central Iraq, located about 100 km southwest of Baghdad, and a few miles east of Lake Milh. Karbala is the capital of Karbala Governorate, and has an estimated population of 700,000 people.34
12117208545sunnisThe political division within Islam who supported the Umayyads. The split between Sunnis and the Shi'a is the most fundamental in the Islamic world.35
12117211600shi'athe branch of Islam whose members acknowledge Ali and his descendants as the rightful successors of Muhammad36
12117212946baghdadCapital of Abbasid dynasty located in Iraq near ancient Persian capital of Ctesiphon37
12117216649Seljuk TurksScary men (BLAHA: Are you kidding me?) Central Asian Turkic nomads who migrated to the Middle East on horses defeated the Byzantines (Eastern Rome) at the battle of manzikert in 1071 CE. Byzantines would never recover.38
12117219750ShrivijayaSrivijaya was an important centre for the expansion of Buddhism from the 8th to the 12th century. Srivijaya was the first unified kingdom to dominate much of Malay archipelago39
12117224508MalaccaPortuguese factory or fortified trade town located on the top of the Malayan peninsula; traditionally a center for trade among the southeastern Asian island.40
12117226075demakmost powerful of the trading states on north coast of Java; converted to Islam and served as a point of dissemination to other ports.41
12117228751Sundiatamember of the Keita clan;created a unified states that became the Mali Empire.42
12117230554Ibn BattutaArab traveler who described African societies and cultures in his travel records43
12117231790Mali EmpireLocated between the Senegal And niger rivers, the Mali empire broke away from Ghana control in the 13th century. It was a model of an Islamicized Sudanic kingdom. It's economy was agriculturally based. Timbuktu was the port city of mali with a population of 50,000.44
12117233237song hay empireThe Songhai Empire was a state that dominated the western Sahel in the 15th and 16th century. At its peak, it was one of the largest states in African history. The state is known by its historiographical name, derived from its leading ethnic group and ruling elite, the Songhai45
12117234987mansa musaMansa Musa was the tenth Mansa, which translates to "sultan", "conqueror", or "emperor", of the wealthy West African Mali Empire.46
12117237387Bantu MigrationWest african originated tribe that migrated to eastern and southern africa47
12117241309Byzantine Empireeastern half of Roman Empire following collapse of western half of old empire;retained Mediterranean culture,particularly Greek,later lost Palestine, Syria, and Egypt to Islam; capital at Constantinople.48
12117243733BelisariusFlavius Belisarius was a general of the Byzantine Empire. He was instrumental to Emperor Justinian's ambitious project of reconquering much of the Mediterranean territory of the former Western Roman Empire, which had been lost less than a century before.49
12117246100Kievan RusKievan Rus' was a loose federation of East Slavic and Finnic peoples in Europe from the late 9th to the mid-13th century, under the reign of the Varangian Rurik dynasty.50
12117249151NovgorodThe first city founded by the Kievan Rus' as they traveled down Eastern Europe in the mid 9th century.51
12117250758kievKiev is the capital city of Ukraine, bisected by the Dnieper River and known for its religious architecture, secular monuments and history museums.52
12117252079Cyril and Methodiusthe cyrillic alphabet mainly used in eastern europe was created by these two men53
12117255087FeudalismA political system in which nobles are granted the use of lands that legally belong to their king, in exchange for their loyalty, military service, and protection of the people who live on the land54
12117260017ManorialismManorialism, also called manorial system, seignorialism, or seignorial system, political, economic, and social system by which the peasants of medieval Europe were rendered dependent on their land and on their lord.55
12117261401serfsa peasant who is bound to the land they live on. Work the land in exchange for military protection and shelter.56
12117263232Carolinian DynastyRoyal house of Franks grew in strength during the 8th century, then Carolingians took over this monarchy which was based in northern France.57
12117265135Charles Martel(686-741) Carolingian monarch of Franks; responsible for defeating Muslims in battle of Tours in 732; ended Muslim threat to western Europe58
12117267931Charlemagne: First Holy Roman Empire emperor; Reunited western Europe for the first time since the Roman Empire;59
12117271506Hanseatic Leaguean organization of cities in northern Germany and southern Scandinavia for the purpose of establishing a commercial alliance.60

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