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| 12478822148 | Axum | Kingdom located in Ethiopian highlands; replaced Meroë in first century AD; received strong influence from Arabian peninsula; eventually converted to Christianity. | 0 | |
| 12478822149 | Ethiopia | A Christian kingdom that developed in the highlands of eastern Africa under the dynasty of King Lalibela; retained Christianity in the face of Muslim expansion elsewhere in Africa. | 1 | |
| 12478822150 | Sahara | Desert running across northern Africa; separates the Mediterranean coast from southern Africa. | 2 | |
| 12478822151 | Shintoism | Religion of early Japanese culture; devotees worshipped numerous gods and spirits associated with the natural world; offers of food and prayers made to gods and nature spirits. | 3 | |
| 12478822152 | Teotihuacan | Site of classic culture in central Mexico; urban center with important religious functions; supported by intensive agriculture in surrounding regions; population as much as 200,000. | 4 | |
| 12478822153 | Maya | Classic culture emerging in southern Mexico and Central America contemporary with Teotihuacan; extended over broad region; featured monumental architecture, written language, calendrical and mathematical systems, highly developed religion. | 5 | |
| 12478822154 | Inca | Group of clans centered at Cuzco that were able to create empire incorporating various Andean cultures; term also used for leader of empire. | 6 | |
| 12478822155 | Polynesia | Islands contained in a rough triangle whose points lie in Hawaii, New Zealand, and Easter Island. | 7 | |
| 12478822156 | Yellow Turbans | Chinese Daoists who launched a revolt in 184 AD in China promising a golden age to be brought about by divine magic. | 8 | |
| 12478822157 | Sui | Dynasty that succeeded the Han in China; emerged from strong rulers in northern China; united all of northern China and reconquered southern China. | 9 | |
| 12478822158 | Tang | Dynasty that succeeded the Sui in 618 AD; more stable than previous dynasty. | 10 | |
| 12478822159 | Harsha | Ruler who followed Guptas in India; briefly constructed a loose empire in northern India between 616 and 657 AD. | 11 | |
| 12478822160 | Rajput | Regional princes in western India; emphasized military control of their regions. | 12 | |
| 12478822161 | Devi | Mother Goddess within Hinduism; widely spread following collapse of Guptas; encouraged new emotionalism in religious ritual. | 13 | |
| 12478822162 | Islam | Major world religion having its origins in 610 AD in the Arabian peninsula; meaning literally submission; based on prophecy of Muhammad. | 14 | |
| 12478822163 | Diocletian | Roman emperor from 284 to 305 AD; restored later empire by improved administration and tax collection. | 15 | |
| 12478822164 | Constantine | Roman emperor from 312 to 337 CE; established second capital at Constantinople; attempted to use religious force of Christianity to unify empire spiritually. | 16 | |
| 12478822165 | Byzantine empire | Eastern half of Roman empire following collapse of western half of old empire; retained Mediterranean culture, particularly Greek; later lost Palestine, Syria, and Egypt to Islam; capital at Constantinople. | 17 | |
| 12478822166 | Augustine (saint) | Influential church father and theologian (354-430 AD); born in Africa and ultimately bishop of Hippo in Africa; champion of Christian doctrine against various heresies and very important in the long-term development of Christian thought on such issues as predestination. | 18 | |
| 12478822167 | Coptic | Christian sect in Egypt; later tolerated after Islamic takeover. | 19 | |
| 12478822168 | Mahayana | Chinese version of Buddhism; placed considerable emphasis on Buddha as god or savior. | 20 | |
| 12478822169 | Bodhisattvas | Buddhist holy men and women; built up spiritual merits during their lifetimes; prayers even after death could aid people to achieve reflected holiness. | 21 | |
| 12478822170 | Jesus of Nazareth | Prophet and teacher among the Jews; believed by Christians to be the Messiah; executes c. 30 AD | 22 | |
| 12478822171 | Paul | One of the first Christian missionaries; moved away from insistence that adherents of the new religion follow Jewish law; use of Greek as language of Church. | 23 | |
| 12478822172 | Pope | Bishop of Rome; head of the Christian Church in western Europe. | 24 | |
| 12478822173 | Council of Nicaea | Christian council that met in 325 AD to determine orthodoxy with respect to the Trinity; insisted on divinity of all persons of the Trinity. | 25 | |
| 12478822174 | Benedict of Nursia | Founder of monasticism in what had been the western half of the Roman empire; established Benedictine Rule in the 6th century; paralleled development of Basil's rules in Byzantine empire. | 26 |
