10453829522 | Pharoh | An Egyptian monarch | 0 | |
10453830288 | artifact | an object made by human hands | 1 | |
10453831384 | Oracle Bones | Animal bones or shells used by the Chinese priests to receive messages from the God. | 2 | |
10453833913 | Budkisattues | Buddhist holy men who accumulated spiritual merits during their lifetime; Buddhists prayed to them in order to receive some of their holiness. | 3 | |
10453835728 | Silk road | Caravan routes and sea lanes between China and the middle East | 4 | |
10453837061 | Analects | Collection of teachings and sayings made by Confucius | 5 | |
10453838429 | Jari | Complicated system of subcastes in the Hindu caste system | 6 | |
10453840399 | Steppe | Dry grassland | 7 | |
10453845009 | Mystery of Religon | During the Hellenistic age, religions that promised their faithful followers eternity a state of bliss | 8 | |
10453845835 | Yahweh | God of the monotheistic religion of Judaism that influenced later religions of Christianity and Islam | 9 | |
10453849206 | Aristotle | Greek philosopher who rejected the theory of forms and ideas, he believed that people could depend on their senses and reason to answer the mysteries of the world | 10 | |
10453852168 | Yin and Yang | In ancient Chinese belief, the opposing forces that bring balance to nature and life | 11 | |
10453853871 | Mirvane | In Buddhism, a state of perfect peace that is goal of reincarnation | 12 | |
10453855287 | Filiel Piety | In China, respect for one's parents and other elders | 13 | |
10453855876 | Moksla | In Hindu belief, the spirit's liberation from the cycle of reincarnation | 14 | |
10453856919 | Karma | In the Hindu tradition, the good or evil deed done by a person | 15 | |
10453858533 | Latifndia | Large landholdings in the Roman Empire | 16 | |
10453859211 | Alexander the Great | Macedonian king who led an army Eastward an conquered land from Greece to India. He was known as a brilliant military leader and his death marked the beginning of the Hellenistic Era | 17 | |
10453866696 | Vedas | "Wisdom," early collections of prayers and humans that provide information about the Indo-European Aryans who migrated to India around 1500 B.C.E | 18 | |
10453869257 | Theocray | A government ruled by God or by church leaders | 19 | |
10453869903 | Aristocrat | a class of persons holding exceptional rank and privileges, especially the hereditary nobility | 20 | |
10453871695 | Artisan | a craftsman | 21 | |
10453872448 | Civilization | a cultural group with advanced cities, complex institutions, skilled workers, advanced technology and a system of recordkeeping | 22 | |
10453877159 | Edict of Muvan | A document that made Christianity one of the religions allowed in the Roman Empire | 23 | |
10453879375 | Polis | A greek city-state | 24 | |
10453881401 | Indo-Europeans | A group of semi-nomadic people who, around 2000 BCE began to migrate from central Asia to India, Europe, and the Middle East | 25 | |
10453884749 | Brahmin | a member of the social class of priests in Aryan society | 26 | |
10453888049 | Quetzalcaah | A mesomaerica legend of a God who would someday return to rule his people in peace | 27 | |
10453889978 | Huns | A nomadic group, believed to be from Central Asia, who invaded into Europe near the end of Rome | 28 | |
10453890801 | Democracy | a political system in which the people rule | 29 | |
10453892140 | Monsoon | a seasonal wind | 30 | |
10453892141 | Dysanty | a series of rulers from the same family | 31 | |
10453894978 | hieroglyphic | A system of picture writing used in Egypt | 32 | |
10453896411 | cuneiform | a system of writing originating in Mesopotamia in which a wedge-shaped stylus was sued to press symbols into classy | 33 | |
10453898953 | forgoing | a term for hunting and gathering | 34 | |
10453901173 | Covenant | agreement; in the Judeo-Christian heritage, an agreement between God and humankind | 35 | |
10453903968 | Slash-n-burn | an agricultural method in which farmers clear fields by cutting and burning trees, then use the ashes as fertilizer | 36 | |
10453910115 | Pope | Head of the Roman Catholic Church | 37 | |
10453911488 | Varna | The Hindu word for caste | 38 | |
10453913009 | independent invention | The idea that ancient civilizations were able to achieve characteristics of civilization without contact with others | 39 | |
10453929391 | Neolithic Revolution | The introduction of agriculture, domestication of animals, and a more sedentary life during the Neolithic Age | 40 | |
10453932950 | Climate | the pattern of temperature and precipitation typical of an area over a long period of time | 41 | |
10453944879 | Ten Commandments | The most popular Hellenistic philosophy; it involved strict discipline and an emphasis on helping others | 42 | |
10453953179 | Phara | The New Stone Age that was marked by the discovery and mastery of agriculture | 43 | |
10453955172 | New Testament | The portion of the Christian Bible that contains the Gospels that relate the account of the life of Jesus; letters from the followers of Jesus to the early Christian churches and the Book of Revelation, a prophetic text | 44 | |
10453963605 | Dharma | The position in the Hindu caste system that was determined by one's birth | 45 | |
10453964891 | Pasteralism | The practice of herding | 46 | |
10453966371 | Messiah | The religious term for "any expected deliverer" | 47 | |
10453968402 | Pax Romuna | The Roman Peace; the period of prosperity and stability throughout the Roman Empire in the first two centuries C.E. | 48 | |
10453970270 | untouchable | The social division in Hindu society that fell in rank below the caste system; it was occupied by those who carried out undesirable occupations such as undertaking, butchering, and waste collection | 49 | |
10453975591 | agriculture | The transition from foraging to the cultivation of food occurring about 8000-2000 BC; also known as the Neolithic revolution | 50 | |
10453977025 | Cultural diffusion | The transmission of ideas and products form one culture to another | 51 | |
10453978857 | ziggurt | Mesopotamian Temples | 52 | |
10453982044 | disciples | One of the 12 followers of Christ, or any of the professed followers of Christ in his lifetime | 53 | |
10453984849 | Zorastumiun | Persian religion based on the teaching of the 6th century BCE prophet Zarathustra; its emphasis on the duality of good an evil and on the role individuals in determining their own fate would influence later religions | 54 | |
10453987850 | Patriarch-ad | Pertaining to a social system in which the father is the head of the family | 55 | |
10453988515 | Reincarnation | Rebirth; a belief of both Buddhism and Hinduism | 56 | |
10453989851 | Twelve Tables | Referring to a social system in which descent and inheritance are traced through the mother | 57 | |
10453990846 | Mardate of Herum | the codification of Roman law during the republic | 58 | |
10453992895 | right of kings | The "will of the gods" that granted a ruler the right to rule | 59 | |
10453995245 | heliocentric | the belief held by many before the Scientific Revolution that the earth is the center of the universe | 60 | |
10453997973 | Ploytheistic | The belief in many gods | 61 | |
10453999145 | Monotheistic | The belief in one god | 62 | |
10454000624 | reincarnation | The belief that spirits inhabit the features of nature | 63 | |
10454001214 | Hsiang-no | The Central Nomadic people who invaded into China in the ancient world | 64 | |
10454002176 | Satu | The custom among the higher castes of Hinduism of a widow throwing herself on the burning funeral pyre of her husband | 65 | |
10454004375 | Specialization of Labor | The division of labor that aids the development of skills in a particular type of work | 66 | |
10454004915 | Hellensitc age | The era in which Greek culture blended with Persian an other Eastern influences and spread throughout the former empire of Alexander the Great | 67 | |
10454010798 | Diaspora | the exile of an ethnic or racial group from their homeland | 68 | |
10454012429 | Torah | the first five books of the Jewish scripture | 69 |
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