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10574100309	Herodotus	Greek Historian, considered the father of History. He came from a Greek community in Anatolia and traveled extensively, collecting information in western Asia and the Mediterranean lands.	0
10574102475	The Histories	Created by Herodotus, serves as a record of the ancient traditions, politics, geography, and clashes of various cultures	1
10574115535	Homer	A Greek poet, author of the Iliad and the Odyssey	2
10574116832	Iliad	Homer's epic poem of the story of the Trojan War	3
10574118100	The Odyssey	writen by Homer, sequel to the Iliad.	4
10574143684	Plato	(430-347 BCE) Was a disciple of Socrates whose cornerstone of thought was his theory of Forms, in which there was another world of perfection. He founded an academy in Athens.	5
10574150205	The Republic	The ideal government thought of by Plato that was composed of workers, warriors, and "philosopher kings". Kings who wouls be smart an drational enough to make decisions for the good of the whole state.	6
10574195273	Aristotle	Greek philosopher. A pupil of Plato, the tutor of Alexander the Great, and the author of works on logic, metaphysics, ethics, natural sciences, politics, and poetics, he profoundly influenced Western thought. In his philosophical system, which led him to criticize what he saw as Plato's metaphysical excesses, theory follows empirical observation and logic, based on the syllogism, is the essential method of rational inquiry.	7
10574197092	Poetics	The first definitions of tragedy and comedy in the theater, as well as definitions of epic and lyric poetry. Created by Aristotle	8
10574224287	Avestas	is the religious book of Zoroastrians that contains a collection of sacred texts.	9
10574226632	Aristophanes	an ancient Greek dramatist remembered for his comedies (448-380 BC)	10
10574228246	Aeschylus	father of greek tragedy	11
10574230114	The Trojan Woman	A tragedy by the Greek playwright Euripides	12
10574232750	Euripides	A playwright who wrote about 90 tragedies and included strong female characters and smart slaves	13
10574236802	Sophocles	Greek writer of tragedies; author of Oedipus Rex	14
10574238338	Parthenon	A large temple dedicated to the goddess Athena on the Acropolis in Athens, Greece. It was built in the 5th century BCE, during the Athenian golden age.	15
10574242084	Persepolis	A complex of palaces, reception halls, and treasury buildings erected by the Persian kings Darius I and Xerxes in the Persian homeland and was destroyed by Alexander the Great.	16
10574247236	Knossos Palace	a palace complex that has indoor plumbing; located on Crete	17
10574252510	Socrates	Athenian philosopher (ca. 470-399 B.C.E.) who shifted the emphasis of philosophical investigation from questions of natural science to ethics and human behavior.	18
10574254155	Socratic Method	philosophical method of questioning to gain truth	19
10574256472	Academy	school of philosophy founded by Plato	20
10574257681	Golden Mean	Aristotle's term for describing ethical behavior as a midpoint between extremes	21
10574257682	Logic	the process of reasoning	22
10574262478	Empiricism	the view that knowledge originates in experience and that science should, therefore, rely on observation and experimentation	23
10574264969	Syncretism	A blending of two or more religious traditions	24
10574266970	Zoroastrianism	One of the first monotheistic religions, particularly one with a wide following. It was central to the political and religious culture of ancient Persia.	25
10574276021	Zarathustra	A Persian prophet, traditionally dated to the sixth or seventh century B.C.E. (but perhaps much older), who founded Zoroastrianism.	26
10574278759	Qanat	an underground canal first built by the ancient Persians	27
10574285039	Cyrus the Great	king of Persia and founder of the Persian empire (circa 600-529 BC)	28
10574286778	Delian League	an alliance headed by Athens that says that all Greek city-states will come together and help fight the Persians	29
10574289601	Cambyses	A Persian king, named after his father Cyrus, expanded the Persian empire by conquering Egypt.	30
10574291119	Darius I	Third ruler of the Persian Empire (r. 521-486 B.C.E.). He crushed the widespread initial resistance to his rule and gave all major government posts to Persians rather than to Medes.	31
10574299278	Xerxes	son of Darius; became Persian king. He vowed revenge on the Athenians. He invaded Greece with 180,000 troops in 480 B.C. Build the Gate of Xerxes	32
10574302593	Peloponnesian League	League created and led by Sparta that consisted of Spartan and their allies with intentions of fighting Athens	33
10574308295	Philip II	Macedonian king who sought to unite Greece under his banner until his death or murder. He was succeeded by his son Alexander.	34
10574310366	Alexander the Great	Between 334 and 323 B.C.E. he conquered the Persian Empire, reached the Indus Valley, founded many Greek-style cities, and spread Greek culture across the Middle East.	35
10574312007	Solon	Athenian reformer of the 6th century; established laws that eased the burden of debt on farmers, forbade enslavement for debt, created the Council of Four Hundred	36
10574318900	Pericles	Aristocratic leader who guided the Athenian state through the transformation to full participatory democracy for all male citizens.	37
10574322040	Ptolemies	The Macedonian dynasty, descended from one of Alexander the Great's officers, that ruled Egypt for three centuries (323-30 B.C.E.). From their magnificent capital at Alexandria on the Mediterranean coast, the Ptolemies largely took over the system created by Egyptian pharaohs to extract the wealth of the land, rewarding Greeks and Hellenized non-Greeks serving in the military and administration.	38
10574326421	Poleis (polis)	Greek city-states	39
10574329423	Monarchies	systems of government in which unelected kings or queens rule	40
10574333086	Aristocracy	A government in which power is in the hands of a hereditary ruling class or nobility	41
10574338461	Oligarchy	A government ruled by a few powerful people	42
10574340488	Tyrants	in ancient Greece, rulers who seized power by force but who ruled with the people's support; later came to refer to rulers who exercise brutal and oppressive power	43
10574342373	Democracy	A political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them	44
10574344231	Direct Democracy	A form of government in which citizens rule directly and not through representatives	45
10574346071	Representative Democracy	A system of government in which citizens elect representatives, or leaders, to make decisions about the laws for all the people.	46
10574347546	Crete	the largest Greek island in the Mediterranean, southeast of Greece	47
10574351161	Knossos	an ancient Minoan city on the island of Crete	48
10574353581	Minoan Civilization	An advanced civilization that developed on the island of Crete around 2500 B.C.E.	49
10574363162	Mycenae	Sea-faring Greek kingdom. A major center of Greek Civilization in the 1000s BCE, centuries before Greek's "Golden Age" of Athenian influence. It's center was located about 90 km southwest of Athens.	50
10574365904	Syracuse	the Athenian siege of _______ (415-413 BC) was eventually won by _________	51
10574371992	Agrigentum	a large colony on Sicily	52
10574376149	The Persian Wars (500-479 B.C.E.)	A series of wars between the Greeks (mainly Athens) and the Persians in which the Greeks were usually victorious.	53
10574381950	Marathon	a battle in 490 BC in which the Athenians and their allies defeated the Persians	54
10574384913	Battle of Thermopylae	(480 B.C.E.) Battle in which Spartan king Leonidas and his army of 300 Spartans and other Greeks refused to surrender to the numerically superior Persian army at the pass of Thermopylae; they were annihilated to the man but allowed the other Greek forces to prepare for the Persian invasion.	55
10574387834	Battle of Salamis	480 B.C.E. The battle that effectively ended the Persian war. The Greek fleet, although vastly outnumbered, defeated the Persian fleet. This helped end the Persian war, freeing Greece.	56
10574391889	Persians	tolerant; bureaucracy; Cyrus the Great and Darius were the most famous rulers; Royal Road was their trade route and united empire; Zoroastrianism	57
10574396493	Achaemenid Empire	The name of an ancient Persian Empire (c. 550-330 BCE) which was composed of many smaller kingdoms. The realm was divided into twenty-three satrapies whose administration and taxation was managed by subordinate local rulers.	58
10574400868	Seleucids	Persian empire (323-83 B.C.E.) founded by Seleucus after the death of Alexander the Great. Rulers of the eastern part of Alexander's empire. Their territory included Palestine.	59
10574412974	Parthians (247 BCE-224 CE)	kept Satraps, taxes and administration, steppe traditions, raised large horses and skilled horsemen, resisted seleucids, then defeated them	60
10574418266	Sassanids	The last pre-Islamic Persian empire	61
10574421979	Athens	A democratic Greek polis who accomplished many cultural achievements, and who were constantly at war with Sparta.	62
10574423614	Sparta	A powerful Greek miliary polis that was often at war with Athens. Used slaves known as helots to provide agricultural labor.	63
10574426814	Alexandria	City in Egypt founded by Alexander the Great, center of commerce and Hellenistic civilization	64
10574429634	Hellenistic Period	that culture associated with the spread of Greek influence as a result of Macedonian conquests; often seen as the combination of Greek culture with eastern political forms 323-31 BCE	65
10574437375	hoplites	heavily armed Greek infantrymen who marched and fought in close ranks; most of the recruits were middle-class citizens	66
10574439171	archons	9 men who were elected yearly in Athens to uphold the laws	67
10574440550	helots	enslaved people in ancient Sparta, farmed for the Spartans	68
10574447752	satraps	a provincial governor in the ancient Persian empire.	69
10574451361	aristocrats	a rich landowner or noble	70
10574451362	merchant	a person who buys and sells goods	71
10574455369	Spartan women	These women owned land, ran their households, received physical training and did not spend time spinning cloth or weaving	72
10574461633	caravanserai	an inn in some Eastern countries with a large courtyard that provides accommodation for caravans, incorperated by the Persians	73
10574465428	common currency	A form of money that was accepted across the Persian Empire; made trade simpler	74
10574467778	Royal Road	A road in the Persian Empire, stretching over 1,600 miles from Susa in Persia to Sardis in Anatolia.	75

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11304478502	China was reunited by _ under the _ dynasty	Yang Jiang; Sui	0
11304488128	Under what dynasty was the grand canal created	Sui	1
11304496469	Who created the grand canal	Sui Yangdi	2
11304502844	Who was the founder of the Tang Dynsasty	Tang Taizong	3
11304513154	There was equal land distribution in	The tang dynasty	4
11304523463	The tang had what _ based off	A bureaucracy of merit; confucian civil service exams	5
11304536908	The song dynasty was founded by	Song Taizu	6
11304545182	The song dynasty fell to the	monguels	7
11304557034	What crop from Vietnam increased food and population in china	fast ripening rice	8
11304564420	Most influential naval invention	Magnetic compass	9
11304578927	Buddhism blended with	Tao-dharama	10
11304583126	Chan Buddhism was a	sincretic blend	11
11304591704	Neo confuciaism was practiced by	elites	12
11304598191	Chan Buddhism was practiced by	peasants	13
11304605849	Women had more rights in china or Vietnam	Vietnam	14
11304610821	Who refused Chinese rule	Vietnam	15
11304614458	Nara Japan got inspiration from	Tang China	16
11304618095	Buddhism in Japan is called	Zen Buddhism	17
11304657167	Political power in Japan stayed within the	Fujiwara family	18
11304665109	Samurai code of conduct is	bushito	19
11304668122	Ritual suicide	seppuku	20
11304672390	China influenced	SE Asia	21
11304683801	After collapse of _ dysnasty there is no unification in india until	Gupta; 16 century	22
11304694400	Islam arrives in India with	Muslim merchants	23
11304700572	There is heavy indian influcene in	SE Asia	24
11304704079	The scholarly Buddhist who reunite northern India	Harsha	25
11304724035	Umayyad forces capture _ and then _ is passed to _ control	sind; sind; abbasid	26
11304735301	Mahumd of Ghazni	plundered India 17 times	27
11304747269	Mahumd of Ghazni attacks weakened the popularity of	Buddhism	28
11304759094	Sultanate of Deli is	Islamic Rule	29
11304774996	Chula kingdom	gained wealth through trade	30
11304788268	The foundered of the kingdom of Viajayanger	Harihara and Bukka	31
11304798187	Harihara and Bukka made _ popular i the south	Hinduism	32
11304803901	What made india important	Location	33
11304815976	Social, finacial, and agricultural centers	Temples	34
11304823567	Replaced Kush, had Christianity and great trade	Kingdom of Axum	35
11304835205	India influenced	SE Asia	36
11304838558	Kingdom of Funan was	land based agriculture	37
11304844053	Kingdom of Funan worshipped	Shiva and Visha	38
11304851452	Kingdom of Srivijaya was	Buddhist	39
11304883590	Kingdom of Angkor was	Agricultural based, Hindu and Buddhist	40
11304902037	Knowledgeable Islamic people were	Uluma	41
11304927245	Lead the Abbasids to their high point	Harun al-Rashid	42
11304942786	Who controlled the Abbasids for 200 years	Saljuq turks	43
11305154723	When Prophet Muhammad and his followers moved to Mecca that is called	The Hegira	44
11309803651	Close Muslim communities are called	Ummah	45
11309825696	Sharia is	Islamic Law	46
11309836065	The pilgrimage to Mecca is called the	Hajj	47
11309860872	The Shia wanted who to become the leader	Ali	48
11309882054	Japan's native religion is	Shinto	49
11309971919	The only thing that divided Muslims was	The Shia's choice for a leader	50
11309986762	The two major sects of Islam are	Sunni and Shia	51
11309996210	The Ummayad Dynasty was _ and _	Tolernant but you had to pay taxes if you were a different religion	52
11310016377	The Abbasids did or did not conquer people	Did not conquer	53
11310029428	Taxes that people that weren't Muslim had to pay	jizaya	54
11310041246	This wanted to erase distinctions between Hindu and Islam	Bhaki movement	55
11310072492	Arabian numbers came from	India	56
11310081608	This person studies Aristotle and influenced Christian thinkers	Ibn Rushd	57
11310109298	There are how many pillars of Islam	five	58
11310139075	In the ancient Islam world what was the most important crop	Cotton	59
11310149048	Who revived the Silk Roads	The Ummayad and Abbasids	60
11310177357	What place in Spain got independence from the Abbasid and had excellent products and advance thoughts	Al-Andales	61
11310183891	Daral-Islam means ____ and they were a ____ society	House of Islam; Cosmopolitan	62

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11021471675	Ahura Mazda	In Zoroastrianism, the good god who rules the world.	0
11021471676	Alexander the Great	Alexander III of Macedon (356-323 B.C.E.), conqueror of the Persian Empire and part of northwest India.	1
11021471677	Aryans	Indo-European pastoralists who moved into India about the time of the collapse of the Indus Valley civilization; their role in causing this collapse is still debated by historians.	2
11021471678	Ashoka	The most famous ruler of the Mauryan Empire (r. 268-232 B.C.E.), who converted to Buddhism and tried to rule peacefully and with tolerance.	3
11021471679	Caesar Augustus	The great-nephew and adopted son of Julius Caesar who emerged as sole ruler of the Roman state at the end of an extended period of civil war (r. 31 B.C.E.-14 C.E.).	4
11021471680	Cyrus (the Great)	Founder of the Persian Empire (r. 557-530 B.C.E.); a ruler noted for his conquests, religious tolerance, and political moderation.	5
11021471681	Darius I	Great king of Persia (r. 522-486 B.C.E.) following the upheavals after Cyrus's death; completed the establishment of the Persian Empire.	6
11021471682	Greco-Persian Wars	Two major Persian invasions of Greece, in 490 B.C.E. and 480 B.C.E., in which the Persians were defeated on both land and sea.	7
11021471683	Gupta Empire	An empire of India (320-550 C.E.).	8
11021471684	Han dynasty	Chinese dynasty that restored unity in China softened legalist policies. Begun in 202 B.C. by Liu Bang, the dynasty ruled China for more than 400 years.	9
11021471685	Hellenistic era	The period from 323 to 30 B.C.E. in which Greek culture spread widely in Eurasia in the kingdoms ruled by Alexander's political successors.	10
11021471686	Herodotus	Greek historian known as the "father of history" (ca. 484-ca. 425 B.C.E.). His Histories enunciated the Greek view of a fundamental divide between East and West, culminating in the Greco-Persian Wars of 490-480 B.C.E.	11
11021471687	hoplite	A heavily armed Greek infantryman. Over time, the ability to afford a military wares and to fight for the city came to define Greek citizenship.	12
11021471688	Ionia	The territory of Greek settlements on the coast of Anatolia; the main bone of contention between the Greeks and the Persian Empire.	13
11021471689	Mandate of Heaven	The ideological underpinning of Chinese emperors, this was the belief that a ruler held authority by command of divine force as long as he ruled morally and benevolently.	14
11021471690	Battle of Marathon	Athenian victory over a Persian invasion in 490 B.C.E.	15
11021471691	Mauryan Empire	A major empire (322-185 B.C.E.) that encompassed most of India.	16
11021471692	Patricians	Wealthy, privileged Romans who dominated early Roman society.	17
11021471693	Pax Romana	The "Roman peace," a term typically used to denote the stability and prosperity of the early Roman Empire, especially in the first and second centuries C.E.	18
11021471694	Peloponnesian War	Great war between Athens (and allies) and Sparta (and allies), lasting from 431 to 404 B.C.E. The conflict ended in the defeat of Athens and the closing of Athens's Golden Age.	19
11021471695	Persepolis	The capital and greatest palace-city of the Persian Empire, destroyed by Alexander the Great.	20
11021471696	Persian Empire	A major empire that expanded from the Iranian plateau to incorporate the Middle East from Egypt to India; flourished from around 550 to 330 B.C.E.	21
11021471697	Plebians	Poorer, less privileged Romans who gradually won a role in Roman politics.	22
11021471698	Punic Wars	Three major wars between Rome and Carthage in North Africa, fought between 264 and 146 B.C.E., that culminated in Roman victory and control of the western Mediterranean.	23
11021471699	Qin Dynasty	A short-lived (221-206 B.C.E.) but highly influential Chinese dynasty that succeeded in reuniting China at the end of the Warring States period.	24
11021471700	Qin Shihuangdi	Literally "first emperor" (r. 221-210 B.C.E.) forcibly reunited China and established a strong and repressive state.	25
11021471701	Solon	Athenian statesman and lawmaker (fl. 594-560 B.C.E.) whose reforms led the Athenians toward democracy.	26
11021471702	Wudi	Han emperor (r. 141-86 B.C.E.) who began the Chinese civil service system by establishing an academy to train imperial bureaucrats.	27
11021471703	Xiongnu	Nomadic peoples to the north of the Great Wall of China who were a frequent threat to the stability of the Chinese state.	28
11021471704	Aristotle	A Greek polymath philosopher (384-322 B.C.E.); student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great.	29
11021471705	Bhagavad Gita	A great Hindu epic text, part of the much larger Mahabharata, which affirms the performance of caste duties as a path to religious liberation.	30
11021471706	Brahman	The "World Soul" or final reality in upanishadic Hindu belief.	31
11021471707	Brahmins	The priestly caste of India.	32
11021471708	Buddhism	The cultural/religious tradition first enunciated by Siddhartha Gautama	33
11021471709	Confucianism	The Chinese philosophy first enunciated by Confucius, advocating the moral example of superiors as the key element of social order.	34
11021471710	Confucius	The founder of Confucianism (551-479 B.C.E.); an aristocrat of northern China who proved to be the greatest influence on Chinese culture in its history.	35
11021471711	Constantine	Roman emperor (r. 306-337 C.E.) whose conversion to Christianity paved the way for the triumph of Christianity in Europe.	36
11021471712	Daoism	A Chinese philosophy/popular religion that advocates simplicity and understanding of the world of nature, founded by the legendary figure Laozi.	37
11021471713	Filial piety	The honoring of one's ancestors and parents, a key element of Confucianism.	38
11021471714	Greek rationalism	A secularizing system of scientific and philosophic thought that developed in classical Greece in the period 600 to 300 B.C.E.; it emphasized the power of education and human reason to understand the world in nonreligious terms.	39
11021471715	Hinduism	A word derived from outsiders to describe the vast diversity of indigenous Indian religious traditions.	40
11021471716	Hippocrates	A very influential Greek medical theorist (ca. 460-ca. 370 B.C.E.); regarded as the father of medicine.	41
11021471717	Jesus of Nazareth	The prophet/god of Christianity(ca. 4 B.C.E.-ca. 30 C.E.).	42
11021471718	Yahweh	A form of the Hebrew name of God used in the Bible. The monotheistic religion developed by the Hebrews, emphasizing a sole personal god with concerns for social justice.	43
11021471719	Karma	In Hinduism, the determining factor of the level at which the individual is reincarnated, based on purity of action and fulfillment of duty in the prior existence.	44
11021471720	Laozi	A legendary Chinese philosopher of the sixth century B.C.E.; regarded as the founder of Daoism.	45
11021471721	Legalism	A Chinese philosophy distinguished by an adherence to clear laws with vigorous punishments.	46
11021471722	Moksha	In Hindu belief, liberation from separate existence and union with Brahman.	47
11021471723	Nirvana	The end goal of Buddhism, in which individual identity is "extinguished" into a state of serenity and great compassion.	48
11021471724	Plato	A disciple of Socrates whose Dialogues convey the teachings of his master while going beyond them to express Plato's own philosophy; lived from 429 to 348 B.C.E.	49
11021471725	Pythagoras	A major Greek philosopher (ca. 560-ca. 480 B.C.E.) who believed that an unchanging mathematical order underlies the apparent chaos of the world.	50
11021471726	Siddhartha Gautama (the Buddha)	The Indian prince (ca. 566-ca. 486 B.C.E.) who founded Buddhism.	51
11021471727	Socrates	The first great Greek philosopher to turn rationalism toward questions of human existence (469-399 B.C.E.).	52
11021471728	Upanishads	Indian mystical and philosophical works, written between 800 and 400 B.C.E.	53
11021471729	Vedas	The earliest religious texts of India, a collection of ancient poems, hymns, and rituals that were transmitted orally before being written down ca. 600 B.C.E.	54
11021471730	Warring States Period	Period in China from 403 to 221 B.C.E. that was typified by disorder and political chaos.	55
11021471731	Yin and Yang	Expression of the Chinese belief in the unity of opposites.	56
11021471732	Zoroastrianism	Persian monotheistic religion founded by the prophet Zarathustra.	57
11021471733	caste as varna and jati	The system of social organization in India that has evolved over millennia; it is based on an original division of the populace into four inherited classes, with the addition of thousands of social distinctions based on occupation, which became the main cell of social life in India.	58
11021471734	dharma	In Indian belief, performance of the duties appropriate to an individual's caste; good performance will lead to rebirth in a higher caste.	59
11021471735	helots	The dependent, semi-enslaved class of ancient Sparta whose social discontent prompted the militarization of Spartan society.	60
11021471736	Kshatriya	The Indian social class of warriors and rulers.	61
11021471737	latifundia	Huge estates operated by slave labor that flourished in parts of the Roman Empire	62
11021471738	Pericles	A prominent and influential statesman of ancient Athens (ca. 495-429 B.C.E.); presided over Athens's Golden Age.	63
11021471739	Sudra	The lowest Indian social class of varna; regarded as servants of their social betters; eventually included peasant farmers	64
11021471740	the "three submissions"	In Chinese Confucian thought, the notion that a woman is permanently subordinate to male control: first that of her father, then of her husband, and finally of her son.	65
11021471741	Untouchables	An Indian social class that emerged below the Sudras and whose members performed the most unclean and polluting work.	66
11021471742	Vaisya	The Indian social class that was originally defined as farmers but eventually comprised merchants.	67
11021471743	Silk Road	Trade route stretching from China into Europe.	68

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10985493308	Achaemenids	First ruling dynasty from 558-330 founded by Cyrus	0
10985493309	Medes	these people and the Persians migrated from central Asia to Persia	1
10985493310	Cyrus	founded the Achaemenids, launched the Persians' imperial venture, called the Shepherd	2
10985493311	Darius	expanded the the Persian empire, Indus region, most important administrator	3
10985493312	Persepolis	built by Darius to show the wealth of the Persians new capitol	4
10985493313	Satrapies	local administrations, headed by a Persian but base of the people of that region	5
10985493314	qanat	underground canals	6
10985493315	Persian Wars	rebellion of Ionian Greeks	7
10985493316	Alexander of Macedon	invaded Persia with an army of some 48,000 trained, crumpled the Achaemenid	8
10985493317	Seleucids	second dynasty 305-281, founded new cities throughout the realm , they failed because they were foreigners and opposed the native Persians	9
10985493318	Parthians	increased agriculture, lived in modern day Iran third dynasty of Persians, semi nomads, well trained forces of cavalry, restored Persian traditions, pressured by Roman Empire	10
10985493319	Sassanids	toppled the Parthians, from 224-651, strong rule	11
10985493320	Zarathustra	prophet that founded Zoroastrianism, focused on moral teachings, good thoughts which leads to good words which leads to good deeds	12
10985493321	Gathas	hymns that Zarathustra composed in honor of the various deities that he recognized literature	13
10985493322	Angra Maunyu	Only god of Zoroastrianism	14
10985493323	Manichaeism	religion based on salvation	15
10985493324	Cambyses	conquered Egypt	16
10985493325	Royal Road	stretched over 2,575 kilometers from Sardis in Lydia to Susa in Iran, took 90 from caravans to cross	17
10985493326	New class of bureaucrats	undermined the position of the old warrior elite, came to share the power and influence with warriors and clans leader, were well educated, included corps of translators	18

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6680166190	Renaissance	a period of European history from 1300-1600 rebirth of classical Greek & Roman Knowledge changes in Art & literature, becomes more secular	0
6680166192	Secular	worldly, non-religious	1
6680166194	Humanism	Renaissance philosophy in which thinkers studied classical texts and focused on human potential and achievements	2
6680166201	Erasmus	Wrote Praise of Folly Father of Humanism (Northern Renaissance)	3
6680166202	Michaelangelo	Renaissance artist who painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling and sculpted the David (From Italy)	4
6680166203	Leonardo Da Vinci	Renaissance artists, inventor & thinker Painted the Last Supper and the Mona Lisa (From Italy)	5
6680166204	Shakespeare	Wrote plays and sonnets (From England)	6
6680166209	Gutenberg	created a moveable type printing press	7
6680166211	Location where the Renaissance began	Italy	8
6680166212	Location where the Renaissance spread	Northern Europe	9
6680166214	contributions of the Printing Press	- increased literacy - made books less expensive - spread the ideas of the Ren & Ref	10
6680166215	Usury	charging heavy interest on a loan	11
6680179596	Sir Thomas Moore	wrote Utopia	12
6680184586	Petrarch	wrote sonnets, was a humanist scholar	13
6680189287	city-states where the Renaissance began	Florence, Genoa, Venice	14
6680193108	Why the Renaissance began in Italian city-states	Had access to trade routes connecting Europe with Middle Eastern markets; Served as trading centers for the distribution of goods to northern Europe; Were initially independent city-states governed as republics	15
6680197323	Machiavelli	wrote The Prince	16
6680201510	key ideas in The Prince	An early modern treatise on government • Supports absolute power of the ruler • Maintains that the end justifies the means • Advises that one should not only do good if possible, but do evil when necessary	17
6680204668	Characteristics of Renaissance art	art and literature focused on individuals and worldly matters, along with Christianity. more dimensional and accurate perspective	18
6680204669	Characteristics of Medieval art	art and literature focused on the Church and salvation flat; lacked perspective & dimension	19

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9339601580	Renaissance	Cultural and political movement on western Europe; began in Italy c. 1400; rested on urban vitality and expanding commerce; featured a literature and art with distinctly more secular priorities than those of the Middle Ages	0
9339601581	Castile	Along with Aragon, a regional kingdom of the Iberian peninsula; pressed reconquest of peninsula from Muslims; developed a vigorous military and religious agenda	1
9339601582	Francesco Petrarch	(1304-1374) One of the major literary figure of the Western Renaissance; an Italian author and humanist	2
9339601583	Vasco de Gama	Portuguese captain who sailed for India in 1497; established early Portuguese dominance in Indian Ocean	3
9339601584	Henry the Navigator	Portuguese prince responsible for direction of series of expeditions along the African coast in the 15th century; marked beginning of western European expansion	4
9339601585	Beijing	Capital of China	5
9339601586	Florence	Capital of Tuscany in Italy	6
9339601587	Genoa	Capital of Liguria in Italy	7
9339601588	Aragon	Along with Castile, a regional kingdom of the Iberian peninsula; pressed reconquest of peninsula from Muslims; developed a vigorous military and religious agenda	8
9339601589	Black Death	A disease that engulfed Europe during the Middle Ages; killed about one-third of the population	9
9339601590	Hundred Years War	War between Britain and France	10
9339601591	Venice	City in northeast Italy	11
9339601592	Polynesia	Islands contained in a rough triangle whose points lie in Hawaii, New Zealand, and Easter Island	12
9339601593	Ibn Rushd	Philosopher in Muslim Spain	13
9339601594	Maori	Polynesians in New Zealand	14
9339601595	Admiral Zhenghe	Chinese Muslim admiral who commanded series of Indian Ocean, Persian Gulf, and red Sea trade expeditions under third Ming emperor, Yunglo, between 1405 and 1433	15
9339601596	Giotto	Florentine painter who gave up the stiff Byzantine style and developed a more naturalistic style; led the way into realism; his treatment of the human body and face replaced the formal stiffness and artificiality that had long characterized the representation of the human body; apprentice to Cimabue	16

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10551520017	Australia and Oceana	0
10551520018	Caribbean	1
10551520019	Central Africa	2
10551520020	Central America	3
10551520021	Central Asia	4
10551520022	East Africa	5
10551520023	East Asia	6
10551520024	Europe	7
10551520025	Latin America	8
10551520026	Mesoamerica	9
10551520027	Middle East	10
10551520028	North Africa	11
10551520029	North America	12
10551520030	South America	13
10551520031	South Asia	14
10551520032	Southern Africa	15
10551520033	West Africa	16