4832174268 | Agriculture | The process of scientifically taming, raising, and breeding plants for human benefit | 0 | |
4832175449 | Civilization | One way that societies organised themselves including features such as monumental architecture, literature, complex religion, organised governments, and a legal code | 1 | |
4832178338 | Mesopotamia | The river floodplains where the worlds first civilisation began | 2 | |
4832181137 | Patriarchy | A system of living where men are favored | 3 | |
4832183841 | Monotheistic | A religon that worships one god | 4 | |
4832185930 | Polytheistic | A religion that worships multiple gods | 5 | |
4832189120 | Specilzation of labor | When 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 work | 6 | |
4832200142 | Bureaucracy | A system of government that hires state employees to make decisions not elected officials they work in cabinets people get frustrated going through the many layers | 7 | |
4832207991 | Oligarchy | a small group of people having control of a country, organization, or institution. | 8 | |
4832208564 | Democracy | Government that uses elected officials voted in by the people orginated in athens Greece about everyone having a say and being equal | 9 | |
4832364208 | Ancestor veneration | The practice of giving reverence and worship, such as creating a shrine, to family member's after they have died. | 10 | |
4832365830 | Confucianism | This philosophy promoted the use of honour and virtue in an effort to bring in a stable society and good government to China. | 11 | |
4832367448 | Fedualism | System of government in which land is granted in exchange for formal oaths of allegiance and loyalty. The Zhou ruled China in this way. | 12 | |
4832368706 | Mandate of Heaven | The idea that Chinese rulers are given the right to rule from the gods, and should exercise this right appropriately. | 13 | |
4832369914 | Daoism | This philosophy focused on inaction, nature, and The Way. | 14 | |
4832371636 | Silk Road | The major trade route that connected China to Rome and Egypt during the classical period. | 15 | |
4832372969 | Legalism | This philosophy was structured with harsh laws and punishments in order to create order in China. | 16 | |
4832380241 | Siddhartha Gautama | Hindu prince who became know as "the Buddha | 17 | |
4832381075 | Aryans | Indo-European speaking Nomads who entered India from the Central Asian steppes between 15000 and 1000 BCE. | 18 | |
4832382531 | Persepolis | The ceremonial capital of the Persian Empire | 19 | |
4832383413 | Chang'an | Capital of Han China the key point on the Silk Road | 20 | |
4832384119 | Pataliputra | Chief city of India's Mauryan and Gupta Empires | 21 | |
4832384348 | Athens | Birthplace of democracy and Commercial and Naval power of the Greek city-states | 22 | |
4832385477 | Carthrage | Phoenician port on the North African Coast in early enemy of Rome | 23 | |
4832385674 | Rome | The Italian home of the most efficient and centralized state in the ancient world | 24 | |
4832386433 | Alexandria | Alexander the Great's capital in Egypt and the Mediterranean world most cosmopolitan center of learning | 25 | |
4832389966 | Constantinople | Eastern headquarters of the Roman Empire in the Byzantine Empire that followed it situated on the crossroads between Europe and Asia | 26 | |
4832390410 | Food storage and distribution | Most societies maintain to this for emergencies or everyday use Rose preserve social order by providing grain | 27 | |
4832391943 | Overreach | The state assume too many responsibilities spent too much money or Concord to a territory for its rulers bureaucracies and armies to handle | 28 | |
4832395286 | Punic Wars | 3 bitter conflict between Rome and carthridge do to Rome's expansion | 29 | |
4832398855 | Classical Languages | Sanskrit Mandarin Chinese Greek and Latin | 30 | |
4832399740 | Christianity | Founded by Jesus of Nazareth AND Persecuted by THE Romans | 31 | |
4837570006 | Hunting & Foraging | A way to supported themselves in the Paleolithic Era One DONE More BY Males THE Other More done by females | 32 | |
4837579142 | Fire | You are just used to cook food to heat their dwellings and allowing them to expand into colder regions and protect themselves against predators | 33 | |
4837583772 | Nomadic | Migrating usually done in the Paleolithic era the fall of their favorite game abandoning old hunting grounds for new ones | 34 | |
4837588827 | Animism | A belief system in which all things in the natural world are thought to be animated by spirits popular in the Paleolithic era | 35 | |
4837592977 | Domestication of animals | Taming animals to be used in companionship security and help in hunting | 36 | |
4837596707 | Cities | Increase 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 leadership | 37 | |
4837635455 | Writing | An innovation used to keep records and pass on learning and information more effectively than oral traditions | 38 | |
4837639662 | Cuneiform | The first written script devised by the Sumerians | 39 | |
4837651390 | Olmecs | The 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 time | 40 | |
4837653378 | Quipu | Created by the Andean culture they did not have a written language but this innovation of record-keeping using knots tied to string | 41 | |
4837663110 | Chavín | Most noteworthy of the several civilizations that popped up along the Andes mountain domesticated animals like the llama skilled at weaving and metalworking | 42 | |
4837669188 | Phoenicians | The 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 alphabet | 43 | |
4837670889 | Alphabet | Created by the Phoenicians a written script and in which each side representative sound rather than a concept or an object | 44 | |
4837677852 | Four Noble Truths | Life is suffering is the first at these Buddhist teachings The four central beliefs containing the essence of Buddhist teaching | 45 | |
4837682925 | The caste system | In India the level or name of the hierarchy social stratification jati | 46 | |
4837690001 | Migrations | When people move from one place to another due to lack of food in original home or other problems such as War | 47 | |
4837694394 | Classical civilization | The 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 themselves | 48 | |
4837698051 | Filial piety | a virtue of respect for one's parents, elders, and ancestors | 49 |
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