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| 9677728979 | Absolute monarchs | Type of government that arose in Europe during the seventeenth century in which the monarch controlled nation-state for the greater benefit of the people. | 0 | |
| 9677728980 | Alphabet script | Written communication in which symbols represent speech, sounds, and/or letters | 1 | |
| 9677728981 | Animism | Belief that life is produced by a spiritual force that is separate from matter; Sometimes includes the belief in the existence of spirits and demons which inhabit particular objects | 2 | |
| 9677728982 | anti-Semitism | Hostility and discrimination toward the Jewish people | 3 | |
| 9677728983 | Apartheid | Legal and institutional separation of black and whites that existed in South Africa during most of the twentieth century | 4 | |
| 9677728984 | Authoritorianism | Enforcement of unquestioning obedience to authority without individual freedom, dictatorships characterize this type of rule | 5 | |
| 9677728985 | B.C.E. | Newer historical term which replaces B.C. and stands for Before the Common Era | 6 | |
| 9677728986 | Bureacracy | Administrative system based on nonelected officials, policies, and procedures | 7 | |
| 9677728987 | C.E. | Newer historical term which replaces A.D. and stands for Common Era | 8 | |
| 9677728988 | Caste system | System in which people obtain their rank in the society from their birth parents, change of rank or class in this system is very difficult | 9 | |
| 9677728989 | City-state | Form of political organization in which a city-based ruler controls the surrounding countryside | 10 | |
| 9677728990 | Civilization | Society that has developed systematic agriculture to produce a food surplus in addition to an elite and merchant class | 11 | |
| 9677728991 | Colonization | New settlement of people linked to the parent country through trade and government control | 12 | |
| 9677728992 | Columbian Exchange | Exchange of goods, plants, animals, and also diseases that happened after Columbus' initial discovery between the Europe and the America | 13 | |
| 9677728993 | Communism | Economic theory which advocates the ownership of property by the community as a whole | 14 | |
| 9677728994 | Conservative | Policies that support tradition and stability; during the early nineteenth century, believers of this believed in obedience to political authority and the importance of organized religion | 15 | |
| 9677728995 | Coup d'état | French term used to designate a sudden, violent, and forcible overthrow of a government by a small group of people with military or political authority | 16 | |
| 9677728996 | Cultural diffusion | Exchange of culture between societires | 17 | |
| 9677728997 | Culture | Ideas, customs, language, and skills of a society that are transmitted through time | 18 | |
| 9677728998 | Cuneiform | Wedge-shaped writing produced on clay tablets developed by the Sumerians | 19 | |
| 9677728999 | Democracy | Government by the people; directly or by elected representatives | 20 | |
| 9677729000 | Détente | Lessening of tensions between nations due to treaties or trade agreements | 21 | |
| 9677729001 | Dynasty | Family of rulers who pass on the right to rule within the family | 22 | |
| 9677729002 | Empire | Government that controls several different territories and people | 23 | |
| 9677729003 | Empiricism | Belief that sensory experience through observations and experiments is the only source of human knowledge | 24 | |
| 9677741108 | Enlightened Monarchs | Rulers who used the principles of the Enlightenment during their rule while also maintaining their absolute powers | 25 | |
| 9677741109 | Enlightenment | Intellectual movement centered in Europe during the eighteenth century that featured the application of scientific methods to the study of society; belief that rational laws and reason can describe society | 26 | |
| 9677741110 | Environmentalism | Use of policies to solve environmental problems such as pollution, shortage of natural resources, and population growth | 27 | |
| 9677741111 | Epic poem | Long poems that details the deeds of heroes | 28 | |
| 9677741112 | Fascism | Government led by a dictator that glorifies the state above the individual | 29 | |
| 9677741113 | Feudalism | Economic, political, and social system in which land, worked by peasants who are bound to it, is held by a lord in exchange for military services to an overlord | 30 | |
| 9677741114 | Filial Piety | Duty of family members to lower their needs and desires to those of the male head of the family or ruler | 31 | |
| 9677741115 | Globalization | Interconnectedness of the nations of the world in communication, commerce, culture, and politics | 32 | |
| 9677741116 | Green Revolution | Development of better types of rice, corn, and other grains that have better yields per acre than traditional crops | 33 | |
| 9677741117 | Gunpowder Empires | Empires formed by unifying different regions through conquest based on the superior use of firearms | 34 | |
| 9677741118 | Hominids | Humans or human-like creatures that walk up-right | 35 | |
| 9677741119 | Humanism | Systems of thought with man at the center;man is the sum of all things | 36 | |
| 9677741120 | Iconoclasm | Policies that oppose the religious use of images and advocate the destruction of such images | 37 | |
| 9677741121 | Ideographic script | Written script in which a graphic symbols represents an idea, concept, or object without expressing that sound that forms its name | 38 | |
| 9677741122 | Imperialism | Extension of political and cultural power over many different regions | 39 | |
| 9677741123 | Industrial Revolution | Technological revolution starting in England in the mid-seventeenth century in which newly invented machines were used in production leading to population, agriculture, and commercial growth | 40 | |
| 9677741124 | Inquisition | General tribunal used to discover and confront heresy in the Roman Catholic Church during the late Middle Ages | 41 | |
| 9677741125 | Liberalism | Intellectual movement based on the ideas of the Enlightenment with several loosely assembled tenants; people were to be free as possible from government restraint; government was to be used to protect the civil liberties of the people; emphasis on the use of representative assemblies in which voting and office should be limited to men to property; the rule of constitutions | 42 | |
| 9677741126 | Marxism | Intellectual movements developed by Karl Marx in the nineteenth century in which history was defined as a class struggle between groups without power and groups controlling the means of productions | 43 | |
| 9677741127 | Mercantilism | Economic policy that many European governments pursued during the eighteenth and nineteenth century; nation was to export more valuable goods than they imported; theoretically the pursuit of this policy makes a nation rich and powerful by keeping the economic resources in the country | 44 | |
| 9677741128 | Middle Passage | Voyages of African slaves from Africa to the Americas that occurred from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries | 45 | |
| 9677741129 | Migration | Movement of people from one region to another | 46 | |
| 9677741130 | Militarism | Dependence on military strength to obtain political objectives | 47 | |
| 9677741131 | Modernism | Artistic and literary movement during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in which artists intentionally moved away from all previous artistic styles | 48 | |
| 9677741132 | Monotheism | Religious worship of a single god | 49 | |
| 9677741133 | Nationalism | Belief that a nation should be made of people who have a common language, traditions, religions, and customs | 50 | |
| 9677741134 | Neolithic Revolution | Period of time in which systematic agriculture and the domestication of animals occurred; varies from 8000 to 5000 B.C.E. depending on region | 51 | |
| 9677741135 | Nomads | Herding societies that move from place to place in search of better pastureland | 52 | |
| 9677746036 | Old Regime | Social system of eighteenth century France that consisted of three estates; clergy, nobility, and middle/lower class | 53 | |
| 9677746037 | Oligarchy | Government rued by an elite and powerful few | 54 | |
| 9677746038 | Pax Mongolia | Period of time in which transregional trade and commerce was renewed under the watch of Mongolian armies | 55 | |
| 9677746039 | Pax Romana | Period of 200 years of relative peace in Roman history | 56 | |
| 9677746040 | Polis | Greek city-state which included the city and the surrounding countryside which it controlled and used for farming | 57 | |
| 9677746041 | Polytheistic | Religious worship of many different gods | 58 | |
| 9677746042 | Realism | Artistic movement of the mid-nineteenth that sought to portray life as it really was | 59 | |
| 9677746043 | Reformation | Religious movement of the sixteenth century originating with Martin Luther; demanded the reform of the Roman Catholic Church; resulted in the division of the Church | 60 | |
| 9677746044 | Renaissance | Cultural and political movement that began in Italy during the fifteenth century; development of literature and art that were more secular than that of the Middle Ages | 61 | |
| 9677746045 | Republic | Government in which leader acquires consent of the governed through voting | 62 | |
| 9677746046 | Rogue Nation | Nation that acts outside the boundaries of international and diplomacy | 63 | |
| 9677746047 | Romanticism | Artistic and literary movement of nineteenth century Europe; belief that emotion is key to understanding human experience | 64 | |
| 9677746048 | Satellite State | Small state that is economically and/or politically dependent on a larger more powerful state; they adjust their policies based on the desires of the larger state | 65 | |
| 9677746049 | Scientific Revolution | Intellectual movement of seventeenth century Europe that used empiricism to develop wider scientific and theoretical generalizations | 66 | |
| 9677746050 | Secularism | Intellectual movement that rejects the use of religion or religious consideration | 67 | |
| 9677746051 | Silk Road | Trading routes that connected European, Indian, and Chinese civilizations transmitting goods and ideas | 68 | |
| 9677746052 | Socialism | Political movement that started in Europe during the nineteenth century; wanted the state to control the means of production to create equality in society | 69 | |
| 9677746053 | Sultanate | Region ruled by the authority and office of a strictly Islamic monarch | 70 | |
| 9677746054 | Terrorism | Use of force or threats to demoralize or intimidate in order to obtain political objectives | 71 | |
| 9677746055 | Theocrat | Ruler who claims to have the sanction of a god or gods in directing a government; claims have a powerful effect if the religion is culturally important | 72 | |
| 9677746056 | Ptolemaic System | Belief advanced by the second century Greek mathematician that Earth was a fixed point and the celestial bodies orbited around it | 73 | |
| 9677746057 | Total War | Warfare that involves the mobilization of an entire nation including its civilian population | 74 | |
| 9677746058 | Triangular Trade Network | Network that emerged during the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries; manufactured goods were traded in Africa for slaves; slaves were shipped to the Americas where they were exchanged for sugar, tobacco, and raw cotton; those products were shipped to Europe to be made into finished goods which went back to the colonies or to Africa to begin the trading network again | 75 | |
| 9677746059 | Westernization | Process in which a nation adopts the culture and institution that typify the West | 76 | |
| 9677746060 | Zionism | Movement that argued that the Jewish people must return to the region of Palestine | 77 |
