88333843 | Samarkand | where the Mughal Empire was located | 0 | |
88333844 | Han Wudi | 'martial emperor', started a university that taught Confucianism (insured its long term survival) | 1 | |
88333845 | Harrapans | First civilization of Indian Subcontinent, Origin is Indus River Valley, Around 2000 BCE | 2 | |
88333846 | Celtics | Indo-European peoples that largely dominated northern Europe, particularly in modern-day France and Great Britain | 3 | |
88333847 | Xiongnu | nomads who terrorized the border and were defeated by Wudi. Lived in the steppes or grasslands north of China. Were the biggest threat to security. | 4 | |
88333848 | Brahman | in India, were priests, top of the caste system | 5 | |
88333849 | Analects | Collection of the ideas and teachings of Confucius | 6 | |
88333850 | Mandate of Heaven | a political theory of ancient China in which those in power were given the right to rule from a divine source | 7 | |
88333851 | Siddhartha Gautama | founder of Buddism; born a prince; left his father's wealth to find the cause of human suffering; also know as Buddha | 8 | |
88333852 | Sargon of Akkad | A conqueror from Akkad, north of Sumer, who took over all of Mesopotamia and created the world's first empire. | 9 | |
88333853 | Quanats | a gently sloping underground channel or tunnel constructed to lead water from the interior of a hill to a village below | 10 | |
88333854 | Royal Road | in Persian empire, encouraged trade which helped the Persian economy | 11 | |
88333855 | Menes | king of upper egypt united the two kingdoms of upper and lower egypt | 12 | |
88333856 | Linear A | an undeciphered writing system used in Crete in the 17th century B.C. | 13 | |
88333857 | Tribunes | An officer of ancient Rome elected by the plebeians to protect their rights from arbitrary acts of the patrician magistrates. | 14 | |
88333858 | Upanishads | A group of writings sacred in Hinduism concerning the relations of humans, God, and the universe. | 15 | |
88333859 | Paleolithic | second part of the Stone Age beginning about 750,00 to 500,000 years BC and lasting until the end of the last ice age about 8,500 years BC, Old Stone Age | 16 | |
88333860 | Neolithic | latest part of the Stone Age beginning about 10,000 BC in the middle east (but later elsewhere), New Stone Age | 17 | |
88333861 | Zhou Dynasty | the imperial dynasty of China from 1122 to 221 BC; notable for the rise of Confucianism and Taoism, displaced Shang Dynasty; alliances with regional princes and families (feudal system); overtook Yangtze River Valley (Middle Kingdom); invoked the "Mandate of Heaven"; Mandarin Chinese language; Confucious (philosopher) | 18 | |
88333862 | Ptolemy | an ancient dynasty of Macedonian kings who ruled Egypt from 323 BC to 30 BC | 19 | |
88333863 | taoism | yin/yang; harmony with nature, people who accept the world as they find it, avoiding useless struggles and adhering to the "path" of nature, popular Chinese philosophical system based in teachings of Lao-tzu but characterized by a pantheism of many gods and the practices of alchemy and divination and magic | 20 | |
88333864 | Khama | African chief who ruled in righteousness for 50 years, became a Christian | 21 | |
88333865 | Shang Dynasty | Second Chinese dynasty (about 1750-1122 B.C.) which was mostly a farming society ruled by an aristocracy mostly concerned with war. They're best remembered for their art of bronze casting | 22 | |
88333866 | Helot | a peasant forced to stay on the land they worked | 23 | |
88333867 | Complex Society | society that has an organized government, taxes, and laws | 24 | |
88333868 | 476 C.E. | Fall of Rome | 25 | |
88333869 | Aryans | nomads from Europe and Asia who migrated to India and finally settled; vedas from this time suggest beginning of caste system | 26 | |
88333870 | Hieroglyphics | an ancient Egyptian writing system in which pictures were used to represent ideas and sounds | 27 | |
88333871 | Ancestor Veneration | Ancestors are highly revered and sometimes even feared, They are considered to have become sacred beings who have the ability to help or harm the living, Well-maintained altars/gravesites and specific rituals serve the purpose of honoring and appeasing the dead | 28 | |
88333872 | Paterfamilias | the eldest male who ruled the house, | 29 | |
88333873 | Pericles | Athenian leader noted for advancing democracy in Athens and for ordering the construction of the Parthenon, Aristocratic leader who guided the Athenian state through the transformation to full participatory democracy for all male citizens | 30 | |
88333874 | Zoroastrianism | Persian religion founded by Zoroaster; taught that humans had the freedom to choose between right and wrong, and that goodness would triumph in the end | 31 | |
88333875 | Xia Dynasty | This was the earliest known dynasty. There is no written evidence of this early time period, but artifacts have been found. The people of this time were farmers and made pottery. | 32 | |
88333876 | Oracle Bones | animal bones carved with written characters which were used for telling the future | 33 | |
88333877 | Semitic | a group of languages in a common region consisting of Hebrew, Aramaic, Phoenician, and Arabic | 34 |
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