4758751527 | Culture | a group's knowledge, language, beliefs, customs, and religion (Foels) | 0 | |
4758751528 | Artifacts | Objects that people in the past have made. Example: Pottery, tools, sculptures. (Leslie V.) | 1 | |
4758751529 | Paleolithic Era | Known as Old stone age, last for about 2.5 million years. (Leslie V.) | 2 | |
4758751530 | Nomads | People who move from place to place in search of food and water. (Leslie V.) | 3 | |
4758751531 | Hunter-gatherers | People who hunt animals and gather wild plants to provide for their needs. (Leslie V.) | 4 | |
4758751532 | Neolithic Era | The New Stone Age; the time period after Paleolithic Era. (Leslie V.) | 5 | |
4758751533 | Domestication | Taming animals and adapting crops for human use. (Leslie V.) | 6 | |
4758751534 | Surplus | excess (Leslie V.) | 7 | |
4758751535 | Division of labor | When certain people do specific task. (Leslie V.) | 8 | |
4758751536 | Traditional economy | Economic system based of customs, beliefs, religion and habits. (Leslie V.) | 9 | |
4758751537 | Cultural diffusion | The spreading of culture from one society to another. (Leslie V.) | 10 | |
4758751538 | Fertile Crescent | Rich farmland that curves from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf centered on the area between the Tigris and Euphrates. (Leslie V.) | 11 | |
4758751539 | Mesopotamia | 12 | ||
4758751540 | Ziggurat | 13 | ||
4758751541 | Polytheism | the belief in many gods. | 14 | |
4758751542 | Cuneiform | Sumerian writing | 15 | |
4758751543 | Hammurabi's Code | the first written laws | 16 | |
4758751544 | Judaism | religion of the Jews people | 17 | |
4758751545 | Torah | the first five books of the Hebrew Bible. The most sacred texts of Jewish faith | 18 | |
4758751546 | Christianity | a religion based on the teaching of Jesus | 19 | |
4758751547 | Bible | Book of Jesus | 20 | |
4758751548 | Jesus | God's son | 21 | |
4758751549 | Islam | was created by Muhammad | 22 | |
4758751550 | Quran | the sacred text of Islam | 23 | |
4758751551 | Muhammad | Started Islam | 24 | |
4758751552 | 5 Pillars | behaviors and obligations that are common to all Muslims | 25 | |
4758751553 | Monotheism | the belief in one god | 26 | |
4758751554 | Nile River | 27 | ||
4758751555 | Bureaucracy | 28 | ||
4758751556 | Hatshepsut | 29 | ||
4758751557 | Hieroglyphics | 30 | ||
4758751558 | Rosetta Stone | 31 | ||
4758751559 | Monsoons | 32 | ||
4758751560 | Castes | 33 | ||
4758751561 | Brahmins | 34 | ||
4758751562 | Untouchables | 35 | ||
4758751563 | Hinduism | 36 | ||
4758751564 | Reincarnation | 37 | ||
4758751565 | Karma | 38 | ||
4758751566 | Buddhism | 39 | ||
4758751567 | Four Noble Truths & Eightfold Path | 40 | ||
4758751568 | Dynasty | 41 | ||
4758751569 | Confucianism | 42 | ||
4758751570 | Daoism | 43 | ||
4758751571 | Greece | 44 | ||
4758751572 | Democracy | 45 | ||
4758751573 | Direct democracy | ...A type of government where people vote directly on an issue | 46 | |
4758751574 | Pericles | ...prominent and influential Greek statesman and general of Athens during the Golden Age. Opened democracy up to more classes of citizens. | 47 | |
4758751575 | Socrates | ...Socrates was a classical Greek philosopher credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy. | 48 | |
4758751576 | Plato | ...Plato was a philosopher, as well as mathematician, in Classical Greece | 49 | |
4758751577 | Republic | ... A political system in which the citizens of a region to select a representative to run the government | 50 | |
4758751578 | Representative democracy | ...a variety of democracy founded on the principle of elected officials representing a group of people, as opposed to a direct democracy | 51 | |
4758751579 | Pax Romana | ...A period of peace in the Roman empire lasting from the beginning from Augustus's reign to the death of Marco Aurelius | 52 | |
4758751580 | Aqueducts | ...Manmade channels used to transport water | 53 | |
4758751581 | Silk Road | ...Trade routes stretching from china to the Mediterranean, which allowed for the exchange goods and ideas from china to the roman empire | 54 | |
4758751582 | Ashoka | ...Mauryan emperor one of the greatest rulers of ancient india | 55 | |
4758751583 | Bantu Migration | ...The Bantu expansion is the name for a postulated millennia-long series of migrations of speakers of the original proto-Bantu language group | 56 | |
4758751584 | Gold-Salt Trade | ...exchange of gold and salt between North and West African traders | 57 | |
4758751585 | Timbuktu | ...a town in central Mali, W Africa, near the Niger River. | 58 | |
4758751586 | Mali | 59 | ||
4758751587 | Mansa Musa | Mansa Musa wast the African king of Timbuktu (luis) | 60 | |
4758751588 | Byzantine Empire | The name of the capital city before it was change to Constantinople (luis) | 61 | |
4758751589 | Feudal system | a political and social system based on the granting of land in exchange for loyalty, military assistance, and other service(luis) | 62 | |
4758751590 | Knights | where people who fought for a king(luis) | 63 | |
4758751591 | Magna Carta | 64 | ||
4758751592 | Crusades | 65 | ||
4758751593 | Black Death | 66 | ||
4758751594 | Renaissance | 67 | ||
4758751595 | Reformation | 68 | ||
4758751596 | Humanism | 69 | ||
4758751597 | Niccolo Machiavelli | 70 | ||
4758751598 | De Medici family | 71 | ||
4758751599 | Leonardo daVinci | 72 | ||
4758751600 | Printing Press | 73 | ||
4758751601 | Indulgences | 74 | ||
4758751602 | Martin Luther | 75 | ||
4758751603 | Theocracy | 76 | ||
4758751604 | Encomienda | 77 | ||
4758751605 | Conquistador | 78 | ||
4758751606 | Columbian exchange | 79 | ||
4758751607 | Mercantilism | system that is held by power | 80 | |
4758751608 | Capitalism | system where most businesses are privately owned | 81 | |
4758751609 | Joint-stock Companies | Group of people who make investments together and share profits | 82 | |
4758751610 | Triangle Trade | trade between Europe, America and Africa | 83 | |
4758751611 | Middle Passage | passage that brought slaves across the atlantic | 84 | |
4758751612 | Aztecs | American Indian people dominant in Mexico | 85 | |
4758751613 | Montezuma | 86 | ||
4758751614 | Hernan Cortez | 87 | ||
4758751615 | Incas | 88 | ||
4758751616 | Absolute Monarch | 89 | ||
4758751617 | Divine Right | 90 | ||
4758751618 | Constitutional Monarchy | 91 | ||
4758751619 | Geocentric Model | 92 | ||
4758751620 | Heliocentric Model | 93 | ||
4758751621 | Scientific Revolution | 94 | ||
4758751622 | Enlightenment | In 17- 1800 expressed reason rather than tradition | 95 | |
4758751623 | John Locke | 96 | ||
4758751624 | Thomas Hobbes | 97 | ||
4758751625 | Sir Isaac Newton | 98 | ||
4758751626 | Galileo | 99 | ||
4758751627 | Voltaire | 100 | ||
4758751628 | Baron de Montesquieu | 101 | ||
4758751629 | Adam Smith | 102 | ||
4758751630 | American Revolution | 103 | ||
4758751631 | French Revolution | 104 | ||
4758751632 | Haitian Revolution | 105 | ||
4758751633 | Napoleon | 106 | ||
4758751634 | Industrial Revolution | 107 | ||
4758751635 | Mass Production | 108 | ||
4758751636 | Assembly Line | 109 | ||
4758751637 | Laissez-faire | 110 | ||
4758751638 | Berlin Conference | 111 | ||
4758751639 | Imperialism | a policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force. (Alena) | 112 | |
4758751640 | Colonialism | the policy or practice of acquiring full or partial political control over another country, occupying it with settlers, and exploiting it economically. (Alena) | 113 | |
4758751641 | Social Darwinism | an application of Charles Darwin's scientific theories of natural selection and the survival of the fittest to the struggle between nations and races; used in the late 1800s to justify imperialism and racism. (Alena) | 114 | |
4758751642 | White-Man's Burden | the task that white colonizers believed they had to impose their civilization on the black inhabitants of their colonies (Alena) | 115 | |
4758751643 | world war I | A war fought from 1914 to 1918 between the Allies, notably Britain, France, Russia, and Italy (which entered in 1915), and the Central Powers: Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire. | 116 | |
4758751644 | The Great Depression | a long and severe recession in an economy or market | 117 | |
4758751645 | World War II | A war fought from 1939 to 1945 between the Axis powers — Germany, Italy, and Japan — and the Allies, including France and Britain, and later the Soviet Union and the United States. | 118 | |
4758751646 | The Cold War | 119 | ||
4758751647 | Joseph Stalin | 120 | ||
4758751648 | Franklin Roosevelt | 121 | ||
4758751649 | Mohandas Gandhi | 122 | ||
4758751650 | Barack Obama | 123 | ||
4758751651 | Vietnam War | 124 | ||
4758751652 | OPEC | 125 | ||
4758751653 | Globalization | 126 | ||
4758751654 | Terrorism | 127 | ||
4758751655 | IRA | 128 | ||
4758751656 | PLO | 129 | ||
4758751657 | al-Qaeda | 130 | ||
4758751658 | atomic bomb | 131 | ||
4758751659 | Hiroshima | Japanese city that the United States dropped an atomic bomb on ending World War II | 132 | |
4758751660 | Nagasaki | Japanese city that the United States dropped an atomic bomb on ending World War II | 133 | |
4758751661 | appeasement | Policy of allowing Nazi Germany to take over neighboring territories in order to prevent another world war. Did not work | 134 | |
4758751662 | Marshall Plan | Policy of providing financial aid to European countries to rebuild after World War II. Also intended to stop spread of communist ideas. | 135 | |
4758751663 | Cuban Missile Crisis | A confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union in 1962 over the presence of missile sites in Cuba; one of the "hottest" periods of the cold war. The Soviet premier, Nikita Khrushchev, placed Soviet military missiles in Cuba, which had come under Soviet influence since the success of the Cuban Revolution three years earlier. President John F. Kennedy of the United States set up a naval blockade of Cuba and insisted that Khrushchev remove the missiles. Khrushchev did. (dictionary.com) | 136 |
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