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| 2023669246 | Karma and samsara | Karma: The effects of a person's actions that determine his destiny in his next incarnation Samsara: The endless cycle of birth and suffering and death and rebirth | 0 | |
| 2023669247 | Moksha | Becoming liberated for the cycle of reincarnation in Hinduism. | 1 | |
| 2023669248 | Xia | A legendary Chinese dynasty that was not believed to exist until relatively recently. Created pictograms which would evolve in to the first Chinese script. | 2 | |
| 2023669249 | Shang Dynasty | (1766-1122 BCE) The Chinese dynasty that rose to power due to bronze metallurgy, war chariots, and powerful strongholds. | 3 | |
| 2023669250 | Zhou Dynasty | Longest dynasty in Chinese history, after displacing Shang Dynasty. Established a new political order with king at the highest level, then lords and warriors and then peasants. They invoked the "Mandate of Heaven". The start of the language Mandarin Chinese. Confucius the philosopher appear in this dynasty. | 4 | |
| 2023669251 | Loess | A fine, light silt deposited by wind and water. It what makes up the fertile soil of the Yellow River Valley in northern China. | 5 | |
| 2023669252 | Steppe | A large area of flat unforested grassland in southeastern Europe or Siberia. | 6 | |
| 2023669253 | "China's Sorrow" | Haung He river nickname given due to years of disastrous flooding | 7 | |
| 2023669254 | Qin Dynasty | The first centralized dynasty of China that used Legalism as its base of belief. | 8 | |
| 2023669255 | Veneration of ancestors | Chinese had great respect for their ancestors. Offered sacrifices at graves. Head of family in charge of rites to honor spirits. Buried material goods with their dead. | 9 | |
| 2023669256 | Oracle bones | Cattle bones or tortoise shells on which Chinese priests would write questions and then interpret answers from the cracks that formed when the bones were heated. Used primarily in fortune telling. |  | 10 |
| 2023669257 | Ice Ages | Long periods of freezing weather about 1.6 million years ago; this period ended about 10,000 years ago. | 11 | |
| 2023669258 | Maize | An early form of corn grown by Native Americans |  | 12 |
| 2023669259 | Authoritarian rule | A system of rule in which power depends not on popular legitimacy but on the coercive force of the political authorities | 13 | |
| 2023669260 | Obsidian | A usually black or banded, hard volcanic glass that displays shiny, curved surfaces when fractured and is formed by rapid cooling of lava |  | 14 |
| 2023669261 | Terrace farming | A farming system that is in the form of steps going up a mountain |  | 15 |
| 2023669262 | Calendar | A system of organizing time that defines the beginning,length, and divisions of a year | 16 | |
| 2023669263 | Theocracy | A government controlled by religious leaders | 17 | |
| 2023669264 | Chavin Cult | An early society in the Andes mountains that promoted fertility and abundant harvest. They created stone carvings and other art of both humans and nature. They focused primarily on the seasons of harvesting and planting, which appealed to farmers and other agricultural societies of early South America. Popular religious cult of the Andeans, centered at the modern location of Chavín de Huantar in northern Peru. It was a popular Andean religion from 900 to 800 B.C.E. | 18 | |
| 2023669265 | Human migration | Human migration is the movement by people from one place to another with the intention of settling temporarily or permanently in the new location. | 19 | |
| 2023669266 | Aboriginal | Inhabiting or existing in a land from the earliest times; indigenous. | 20 | |
| 2023669267 | Austronesian | An Asian-language family whose speakers gradually became the dominant culture of the Philippines, Indonesia, and the Pacific islands, thanks to their mastery of agriculture. | 21 | |
| 2023669268 | Satrapies | The 20 provinces Darius divided the country into to ease in the efficient running of the country | 22 | |
| 2023669269 | Taxation | Charge against a citizen's person or property or activity for the support of king from people\ church 10% from people\ noble men from peasants for land. | 23 | |
| 2023669270 | Persian Wars | Wars between the Persian empire and Greek city-states; Greek victories allowed Greek civilization to define identity. | 24 | |
| 2023669271 | Bureaucrats | Employees of a bureaucracy, usually meaning a government bureaucracy. Appointed officials who operate government agencies | 25 | |
| 2023669272 | Free classes | The biggest social class of the Persian empire. They were free but did not enjoy any of the privileges of the bureaucrats. In Persia, these consisted of priests, priestesses, artisans, craftsmen, merchants, and low-ranking civil servants | 26 | |
| 2023669273 | Slavery | A system of enforced servitude in which some people are owned by other people. Slaves are not considered people, but capital. | 27 | |
| 2023669274 | Zoroastrianism | A religion originating in ancient Persia. Founded by Zoroaster; taught that humans had the freedom to choose between right and wrong, and that goodness would triumph in the end. It emphasized truth-telling, purity, and respect for nature. | 28 | |
| 2023669275 | Period of Warring States | The period in Chinese history in which many different states emerged and were fighting for control of China. It occured after the fall Zhou dynasty and not ending until the formation of the Qin dynasty | 29 | |
| 2023669276 | Confucianism | A philosophy of ethics, education, and statesmanship taught by Confucius and his disciples, stressing love for humanity, worshipping ancestors, reverence for parents and superiors, and harmony in thought and conduct. | 30 | |
| 2023669277 | Daoism | A Philosophy based on the ideas of the Chinese thinker Laozi, Who taught that people should be guided by a universal force called the Dao. Advocates a simple honest life and noninterference with the course of natural events | 31 | |
| 2023669278 | Legalism | A Chinese philosophy that was devoted to strengthen and expand the state through increased agricultural work and military service. | 32 | |
| 2023669279 | Standardized weights and measures; roads | A set of weights and measures to set a universal base for pricing. Also infrastructure such as roads were greatly expanded, and developed. This occurred during the Qin Dynasty. | 33 | |
| 2023669280 | Silk production | A luxury product that was high in demand, on the silk road. A important tradition by the Chinese. | 34 | |
| 2023669281 | Rice paper | A white, smooth, translucent paper made from the stems and branches of a plant/tree. It was used primarily in c | 35 | |
| 2023669282 | Yellow Turbans Rebellion | During the decline of classical China, the Yellow Turbans were a peasant Taoist group that promised a golden age by promising land to all and a restoration of balance that would be brought about by divine magic. | 36 | |
| 2023669283 | Buddhism | A religion in which Buddha's teachings that life is permeated with suffering caused by desire and suffering ceases when desire ceases. Enlightenment obtained through right conduct, wisdom, and meditation releases one from desire, suffering, and rebirth (reincarnation). | 37 | |
| 2023669284 | Monsoon seasons | Necessary seasons in India for crops to grow. Rivers usually flood and water crops, but sometimes horrible flooding affects the villagers. | 38 | |
| 2023669285 | Nuclear families | A family that consists of parents, children, and maybe grandparents. | 39 | |
| 2023669286 | Child brides | Children secretly get married off by parents, to much older suitors. Even as young as the age of 7 | 40 | |
| 2023669287 | Four Noble Truths | 1) All life is full of suffering, pain, and sorrow. 2) The cause of suffering is non virtue, or negative deeds and mindsets such as hated and desire. 3) The only cure for suffering is to overcome non virtue. 4) The way to overcome non virtue is to follow the Eightfold Path. | 41 | |
| 2023669288 | Noble Eightfold Path | Buddhists follow these eight points in their search for Nirvana. | 42 | |
| 2023669289 | Nirvana / Dharma | The ultimate goal of all Buddhists, the extinction of desire and any sense of individual selfhood, resulting in liberation from samsara and its limiting conditions. | 43 |
