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4832174268AgricultureThe process of scientifically taming, raising, and breeding plants for human benefit0
4832175449CivilizationOne way that societies organised themselves including features such as monumental architecture, literature, complex religion, organised governments, and a legal code1
4832178338MesopotamiaThe river floodplains where the worlds first civilisation began2
4832181137PatriarchyA system of living where men are favored3
4832183841MonotheisticA religon that worships one god4
4832185930PolytheisticA religion that worships multiple gods5
4832189120Specilzation of laborWhen someone works in one type of work inatead of a variety came about after surpluses of food allowed peope to focus on other types of work6
4832200142BureaucracyA system of government that hires state employees to make decisions not elected officials they work in cabinets people get frustrated going through the many layers7
4832207991Oligarchya small group of people having control of a country, organization, or institution.8
4832208564DemocracyGovernment that uses elected officials voted in by the people orginated in athens Greece about everyone having a say and being equal9
4832364208Ancestor venerationThe practice of giving reverence and worship, such as creating a shrine, to family member's after they have died.10
4832365830ConfucianismThis philosophy promoted the use of honour and virtue in an effort to bring in a stable society and good government to China.11
4832367448FedualismSystem of government in which land is granted in exchange for formal oaths of allegiance and loyalty. The Zhou ruled China in this way.12
4832368706Mandate of HeavenThe idea that Chinese rulers are given the right to rule from the gods, and should exercise this right appropriately.13
4832369914DaoismThis philosophy focused on inaction, nature, and The Way.14
4832371636Silk RoadThe major trade route that connected China to Rome and Egypt during the classical period.15
4832372969LegalismThis philosophy was structured with harsh laws and punishments in order to create order in China.16
4832380241Siddhartha GautamaHindu prince who became know as "the Buddha17
4832381075AryansIndo-European speaking Nomads who entered India from the Central Asian steppes between 15000 and 1000 BCE.18
4832382531PersepolisThe ceremonial capital of the Persian Empire19
4832383413Chang'anCapital of Han China the key point on the Silk Road20
4832384119PataliputraChief city of India's Mauryan and Gupta Empires21
4832384348AthensBirthplace of democracy and Commercial and Naval power of the Greek city-states22
4832385477CarthragePhoenician port on the North African Coast in early enemy of Rome23
4832385674RomeThe Italian home of the most efficient and centralized state in the ancient world24
4832386433AlexandriaAlexander the Great's capital in Egypt and the Mediterranean world most cosmopolitan center of learning25
4832389966ConstantinopleEastern headquarters of the Roman Empire in the Byzantine Empire that followed it situated on the crossroads between Europe and Asia26
4832390410Food storage and distributionMost societies maintain to this for emergencies or everyday use Rose preserve social order by providing grain27
4832391943OverreachThe state assume too many responsibilities spent too much money or Concord to a territory for its rulers bureaucracies and armies to handle28
4832395286Punic Wars3 bitter conflict between Rome and carthridge do to Rome's expansion29
4832398855Classical LanguagesSanskrit Mandarin Chinese Greek and Latin30
4832399740ChristianityFounded by Jesus of Nazareth AND Persecuted by THE Romans31
4837570006Hunting & ForagingA way to supported themselves in the Paleolithic Era One DONE More BY Males THE Other More done by females32
4837579142FireYou are just used to cook food to heat their dwellings and allowing them to expand into colder regions and protect themselves against predators33
4837583772NomadicMigrating usually done in the Paleolithic era the fall of their favorite game abandoning old hunting grounds for new ones34
4837588827AnimismA belief system in which all things in the natural world are thought to be animated by spirits popular in the Paleolithic era35
4837592977Domestication of animalsTaming animals to be used in companionship security and help in hunting36
4837596707CitiesIncrease social complexity of the Neolithic era led to the emergence of this innovation flash social structure they offered protection to large numbers of people and surgicenter server for trade religious worship and political leadership37
4837635455WritingAn innovation used to keep records and pass on learning and information more effectively than oral traditions38
4837639662CuneiformThe first written script devised by the Sumerians39
4837651390OlmecsThe mother civilization of mesoamerica who arose between 1500 and 1200 BCE do not have a large river system nearby unlike most early civilizations of the time40
4837653378QuipuCreated by the Andean culture they did not have a written language but this innovation of record-keeping using knots tied to string41
4837663110ChavínMost noteworthy of the several civilizations that popped up along the Andes mountain domesticated animals like the llama skilled at weaving and metalworking42
4837669188PhoeniciansThe maritime culture that traded in called as Wireless wrote the Mediterranean between 1550 and 300 BC from their home cities in Syria and Lebanon they created the alphabet43
4837670889AlphabetCreated by the Phoenicians a written script and in which each side representative sound rather than a concept or an object44
4837677852Four Noble TruthsLife is suffering is the first at these Buddhist teachings The four central beliefs containing the essence of Buddhist teaching45
4837682925The caste systemIn India the level or name of the hierarchy social stratification jati46
4837690001MigrationsWhen people move from one place to another due to lack of food in original home or other problems such as War47
4837694394Classical civilizationThe art and literature in architecture produced by States like Han China Gupta India or Greece and Rome as well as the language used by them or off and longer lived in their influence in the actual States themselves48
4837698051Filial pietya virtue of respect for one's parents, elders, and ancestors49

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