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| 7656745816 | Bactria | The ancient region stretching from the Hindu Kush mountain range to the ancient Ganhara region of the Indian subcontinent. |  | 0 |
| 7656745817 | Barracks Emperors | Series of Roman generals who seized the throne between 235 and 284 C.E. |  | 1 |
| 7656745818 | Bubonic Plague | Epidemic that swept Eurasia, causing devastating population loss and disruption. Known as the Black Death in Europe after 1350 C.E. |  | 2 |
| 7656745819 | Buddhism | Religion, based on Four Noble Truths, associated with Siddhartha Gautama (563--483 B.C.E.), or the Buddha; its adherents desired to eliminate all distracting passion and reach nirvana. |  | 3 |
| 7656745820 | Byzantine | Long-lasting empire centered at Constantinople; it grew out of the end of the Roman empire and carried legacy of Roman greatness and was the only classical society to survive into the early modern age; it reached its early peak during the reign of Justinian (483--565). |  | 4 |
| 7656745821 | Christianity | Religion emerging from Middle East in the first century C.E. holding Jesus to be the son of God who sacrificed himself on behalf of mankind. |  | 5 |
| 7656745822 | Confucianism | Philosophy, based on the teachings of the Chinese philosopher Kong Fuzi (551-479 B.C.E.), or Confucius, that emphasizes order, the role of the gentleman, obligation to society, and reciprocity. |  | 6 |
| 7656745823 | Edict of Milan | Emperor Constantine's 313 C.E. that Christianity was a legitimate religion. |  | 7 |
| 7656745824 | Han Dynasty | Chinese dynasty that ruled an expanding empire with a large bureaucracy based upon Legalist and Confucian values. The empire taxed agriculture and trade and raised large armies to colonize Vietnam, Korea, and the Xiongnu territory. |  | 8 |
| 7656745825 | Hellenistic Era | Second phase in Greek history (328-146 B.C.E.), from the conquest of Greece by Philip of Macedon until Greece's fall to the Romans; this era was a more cosmopolitan age facilitated by the conquests of Alexander the Great. |  | 9 |
| 7656745826 | Hinduism | Main religion of India, a combination of Dravidian and Aryan concepts; Hinduism's goal is to reach spiritual purity and union with the great world spirit; its important concepts include dharma, karma, and samsara. |  | 10 |
| 7656745827 | Karakorum | Capital of the Mongol empire. |  | 11 |
| 7656745828 | Manichaeism | Religion founded by the prophet Mani in the third century C.E., a syncretic version of Zoroastrian, Christian, and Buddhist elements. |  | 12 |
| 7656745829 | Mesopotamia | Term meaning "between the rivers," in this case the Tigris and Euphrates; Sumer and Akkad are two of the earliest societies. |  | 13 |
| 7656745830 | Monotheism | Belief in only one god, a rare concept in the ancient world. |  | 14 |
| 7656745831 | Nestorian | Early branch of Christianity, named after the fifth-century Greek theologian Nestorius, that emphasized the human nature of Jesus Christ. |  | 15 |
| 7656745832 | Ptolemaic | Term used to signify both the Egyptian kingdom founded by Alexander the Great's general Ptolemy and the thought of the philosopher Ptolemy of Alexandria (second century C.E.), who used mathematical formulas in an attempt to prove Aristotle's geocentric theory of the universe. |  | 16 |
| 7656745833 | Sasanids | Later powerful Persian dynasty (224-651) that would reach its peak under Shapur I and later fall to Arabic expansion. |  | 17 |
| 7656745834 | Silk roads | Ancient trade routes that extended from the Roman empire in the west to China in the east. |  | 18 |
| 7656745835 | Zen Buddhism | Japanese version of Chinese Chan Buddhism, with an emphasis on intuition and sudden flashes of insight instead of textual study. |  | 19 |
| 7656745836 | Zoroastrianism | Persian religion based on the teaching of the sixth-century-B.C.E. prophet Zarathustra; its emphasis on the duality of good and evil and on the role of individuals in determining their own fate would influence later religions. |  | 20 |
