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2573874915	8000-600	Foundations	0
2573874916	600-600	Classical	1
2573874917	600-1450	Postassical	2
2573874918	1450-1750	Early Modern	3
2573874919	1750-1900	Modern	4
2573874920	1900-present	Contemporary	5

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3645472840	Acculturation	when one group of people adopt the culture traits of another culture	0
3645474902	Aparthied	Laws (no longer in effect) in South Africa the separated different races (into different areas).	1
3645474903	Assimilation	the process whereby a minority group gradually adopts the customs and attitudes of the prevailing culture	2
3645479312	CBR- Crude Birth Rate	The total # of live births in a year for every 1000 people	3
3645483218	CDR- Crude Birth Rate	The total # of deaths in a year for every 1000 people	4
3645485553	Centrifugal Forces	An attitude that tends to divide people and decrease support for a state.	5
3645488082	Centripetal Forces	An attitude that unifies people and enhance support	6
3645488083	Chain Migration	People follow others to the same settlement because they are the same	7
3645491017	Choropleth Map	A thematic map that uses tones or colors to represent spatial data as average values per unit area.	8
3645493919	Creole Language	To languages mixed together	9
3645495213	Cultural Development		10
3645498525	Cultural Landscape	How a certain group makes there place look like	11
3645503008	Dependency Ratio	The # of people that must depend on others to live (usually people under 15 and over 64). They are compared to the people are active in the labor force.	12
3645505159	Diffusion Types	The spreading of a feature or trend form on place to another over time. (Contagious, is the rapid widespread of a trend or feature throughout population. Expansion, the spread of a feature or trend throughout people. Hierarchical, the spread of a feature of trend from one key person to other people or places. Relocation, the spread of a feature or trend through bodily movement of people from place to place. Stimulus, the spread of an underlying principle.)	13
3645505182	Distortion	Disadvantages for maps depicting the entire world of the: shape, distance, relative size, and direction of places on maps	14
3645509537	Domino Theory	The theory that a political event in one country will cause similar events in neighboring countries, like a falling domino causing an entire row of upended dominoes to fall.	15
3645514995	Dot Distribution	Thematic maps that use points to show the precise locations of specific observations or occurrences, such as crimes, car accidents, or births	16
3645541840	Environmental Determinism v.s. Possibilism	The place your born at is what determines your future and destiny. Possibilism says that you decide your future and destiny.	17
3645546134	Ethnicity	Identity with a group of people that share similar physical and mental traits.	18
3645549376	Ethnocentrism	Belief in superiority of one's own ethnic group	19
3645552236	Gerrymandering	The process of rewarding legislative boundaries for the purpose of benefiting the party in power	20
3645552237	GIS- Geographic Info sSystem	A computer system that stores, organizes and analyzes, and displays geographic data	21
3645552238	GPS- Global Positioning System	A system that determines the precise position of something on Earth through a series of satellites.	22
3645556099	Heartland Theory	Whichever state controlled the resource-rich "heartland" of Eastern Europe could eventually dominate the world.	23
3645602375	Indo-European Language Branch	A large, widespread family of languages, the surviving branches of which include Italic, Slavic, Baltic, Hellenic, Celtic, Germanic, and Indo-Iranian, spoken by about half the world's population: English, Spanish, German, Latin, Greek, Russian, Albanian, Lithuanian, Armenian, Persian, Hindi, and Hittite are all Indo-European languages.	24
3645607122	Language Concentrations	Where a language is most used (guessed this one)	25
3645611465	Language Families	A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor that existed long before recorded history	26
3645614872	LDC Characteristics	A country relatively in early stage. In the process of economic development.	27
3645620573	Lingua Franca	A language mutually understood and used in trade by people who have different tongues.	28
3645782594	MDC Characteristics	A country that has progressed relatively far along development	29
3645783967	Micro-state	States with small land area	30
3645786052	Migration Patterns	Patterns of movement; Intercontinental- over countries' borders, Interregional- within a region or certain area, Rural-Urban- from a rural area to an urban area (farm to a city).	31
3645788564	Nation	Culturally defined group of people with a shared past and common future who relate to a territory and government	32
3645788565	Nation-state	A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality (think of neighbors )	33
3645790096	NIR	The percentage growth of a population in a year (CBR-CDR)	34
3645792160	Origin/Hearth	The place from where something originates	35
3645793962	Pidgin Language	Very simple speed and grammar and limited vocab (Southerners during the time in the to kill a mockingbird book)	36
3645793963	Place	A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character	37
3645800149	Population Pyramids	A bar graph representing the distribution of population by age and sex	38
3645801722	Projections	The system used to transfer locations from Earth's surface to a flat map	39
3645801723	Race	Identification with a group of people descended from common ancestors	40
3645806341	Ravenstein's Law of Migration	-Net Migration amounts to only a fraction of the gross migration between 2 places -The majority of migrants move short distances -Migrants who move longer distances tend to choose big city destinations -Urban residents are less migratory than people in rural areas -Families are less likely to make international moves than young adults	41
3645806342	Religions- Universal vs Ethnic	Universalizing attempts to appeal to all people, not just those living in a particular location. An Ethnic religion is generally defined by the ethnicity of its adherents, and conversion essentially equates to cultural assimilation into that ethnoreligious group. Universalizing= Everyone Ethnic= Born into it	42
3645813984	Rim Theory	Nicholas Spykman's Theory that the domination of the coastal fringes of Eurasia would provide the base for world conquest.	43
3645816604	Shapes-Compact	Small and centralized. it is easily to manage since the government is close to all portions of the state.	44
3645818487	Shapes-Elongated	An elongated shaped state is long and narrow	45
3645819782	Shapes-Enclave	A country or part of a country that is surrounded by another.	46
3645822698	Shapes-Exclave	A part of a country that is isolated from the main part and is surrounded by foreign territory	47
3645825463	Shapes-Fragmented	State includes several discontinuous pieces of territory,separated by a physical or human barrier	48
3645829131	Shapes-Perforated	A perforated state completely surrounds another one	49
3645835576	Shapes-Prorupted	States has a long extension	50
3645835577	Site	The physical character of a place	51
3645837031	Situation	The location of a place relative to other places	52
3645838588	Sovereignty	The ability of a state to govern its territory	53
3645838589	State	An area organized into a political unit and ruled by an established government with control of its own crap	54
3645844808	The Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ)	An area (usually 370 km) from the shore in which a state has rights to explore, exploit, and manage natural resources in the seas.	55
3645846586	Thomas Malthus	Political economist that belived that humans would over populate and run out of food in the future	56
3645846587	Types of Maps	A flat representation of Earth's surface or a portion of it (mental, is a representation of Earth's surface based on what an individual knows)	57
3645850102	United Nations	An international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace. The UN was founded after World War II to replace the League of Nations, to stop wars between countries, and to provide a platform for dialogue and diplomacy.	58

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2852945425	GP	General practice	0
2852945426	gtt	Drops	1
2852945427	GYN	Gynecology	2
2852945428	AaappHIV	Human immunodeficiency virus	3
2852945429	HOB	Head of bed	4
2852945430	HRT	Hormone replacement therapy	5
2852945431	HTN	Hypertension	6
2852945432	Hr	Hour	7
2852945433	Hx	History	8
2852945434	ICU	Intensive care unit	9
2852945435	IM	Intramuscular	10
2852945436	I&O	Intake and output	11
2852945437	Isol	Isolation	12
2852945438	IV	Intravenous	13
2852945439	IVP	Intravenous pyelogram	14
2852945440	Jt	Joint	15
2852945441	KUB	Kidney,ureters, bladder	16
2852945442	L&D	Labor and delivery	17
2852945443	Lg	Large	18
2852945444	LLD	Left lower quadrant	19
2852945445	LMP	Last menstrual period	20
2852945446	LOC	Level if consciousness	21
2852945447	LUQ	Left upper quadrant	22
2852945448	LVN	Licensed Vocational nurse	23
2852945449	MA	Medical assistant	24
2852945450	MD	Medical doctor	25
2852945451	mm	Millimeters	26
2852945452	MRI	Magnetic resonance imagines	27
2852945453	MS	Multiple sclerosis	28
2852945454	N/C	No complaints	29
2852945455	NA	No applicable	30
2852945456	Neg	Negative	31
2852945457	NKA	No known allgeries	32
2852945458	Noc/Noct	Night	33
2852945459	NPO	Nothing by mouth	34
2852945460	NSAID	Nonsensical anti-inflammatory drug	35
2852945461	N&V	Nausea and vomiting	36
2852945462	OA	Osteoarthritis	37
2852945463	OB	Obstretrics	38
2852945464	OB-GYN	Obstretrics and gynecology	39
2852945465	OCD	Obsessive compulsive disorder	40
2852945466	OOB	Out of bed	41
2852945467	Op	Outpatient	42
2852945468	O&P	O va and parasites	43
2852945469	OR	Operating room	44
2852945470	ORIF	Open reduction internal fixation	45
2852945471	os	Mouth	46
2852945472	OT	Occupational therapist	47
2852945473	O2	Oxygen	48
2852945474	PATH	Pathology	49
2852946433	GP	General practice	50
2852946434	gtt	Drops	51
2852946435	GYN	Gynecology	52
2852946436	AaappHIV	Human immunodeficiency virus	53
2852946437	HOB	Head of bed	54
2852946438	HRT	Hormone replacement therapy	55
2852946439	HTN	Hypertension	56
2852946440	Hr	Hour	57
2852946441	Hx	History	58
2852946442	ICU	Intensive care unit	59
2852946443	IM	Intramuscular	60
2852946444	I&O	Intake and output	61
2852946445	Isol	Isolation	62
2852946446	IV	Intravenous	63
2852946447	IVP	Intravenous pyelogram	64
2852946448	Jt	Joint	65
2852946449	KUB	Kidney,ureters, bladder	66
2852946450	L&D	Labor and delivery	67
2852946451	Lg	Large	68
2852946452	LLD	Left lower quadrant	69
2852946453	LMP	Last menstrual period	70
2852946454	LOC	Level if consciousness	71
2852946455	LUQ	Left upper quadrant	72
2852946456	LVN	Licensed Vocational nurse	73
2852946457	MA	Medical assistant	74
2852946458	MD	Medical doctor	75
2852946459	mm	Millimeters	76
2852946460	MRI	Magnetic resonance imagines	77
2852946461	MS	Multiple sclerosis	78
2852946462	N/C	No complaints	79
2852946463	NA	No applicable	80
2852946464	Neg	Negative	81
2852946465	NKA	No known allgeries	82
2852946466	Noc/Noct	Night	83
2852946467	NPO	Nothing by mouth	84
2852946468	NSAID	Nonsensical anti-inflammatory drug	85
2852946469	N&V	Nausea and vomiting	86
2852946470	OA	Osteoarthritis	87
2852946471	OB	Obstretrics	88
2852946472	OB-GYN	Obstretrics and gynecology	89
2852946473	OCD	Obsessive compulsive disorder	90
2852946474	OOB	Out of bed	91
2852946475	Op	Outpatient	92
2852946476	O&P	O va and parasites	93
2852946477	OR	Operating room	94
2852946478	ORIF	Open reduction internal fixation	95
2852946479	os	Mouth	96
2852946480	OT	Occupational therapist	97
2852946481	O2	Oxygen	98
2852946482	PATH	Pathology	99
2867548753	GP	General practice	100
2867548754	gtt	Drops	101
2867548755	GYN	Gynecology	102
2867548756	AaappHIV	Human immunodeficiency virus	103
2867548757	HOB	Head of bed	104
2867548758	HRT	Hormone replacement therapy	105
2867548759	HTN	Hypertension	106
2867548760	Hr	Hour	107
2867548761	Hx	History	108
2867548762	ICU	Intensive care unit	109
2867548763	IM	Intramuscular	110
2867548764	I&O	Intake and output	111
2867548765	Isol	Isolation	112
2867548766	IV	Intravenous	113
2867548767	IVP	Intravenous pyelogram	114
2867548768	Jt	Joint	115
2867548769	KUB	Kidney,ureters, bladder	116
2867548770	L&D	Labor and delivery	117
2867548771	Lg	Large	118
2867548772	LLD	Left lower quadrant	119
2867548773	LMP	Last menstrual period	120
2867548774	LOC	Level if consciousness	121
2867548775	LUQ	Left upper quadrant	122
2867548776	LVN	Licensed Vocational nurse	123
2867548777	MA	Medical assistant	124
2867548778	MD	Medical doctor	125
2867548779	mm	Millimeters	126
2867548780	MRI	Magnetic resonance imagines	127
2867548781	MS	Multiple sclerosis	128
2867548782	N/C	No complaints	129
2867548783	NA	No applicable	130
2867548784	Neg	Negative	131
2867548785	NKA	No known allgeries	132
2867548786	Noc/Noct	Night	133
2867548787	NPO	Nothing by mouth	134
2867548788	NSAID	Nonsensical anti-inflammatory drug	135
2867548789	N&V	Nausea and vomiting	136
2867548790	OA	Osteoarthritis	137
2867548791	OB	Obstretrics	138
2867548792	OB-GYN	Obstretrics and gynecology	139
2867548793	OCD	Obsessive compulsive disorder	140
2867548794	OOB	Out of bed	141
2867548795	Op	Outpatient	142
2867548796	O&P	O va and parasites	143
2867548797	OR	Operating room	144
2867548798	ORIF	Open reduction internal fixation	145
2867548799	os	Mouth	146
2867548800	OT	Occupational therapist	147
2867548801	O2	Oxygen	148
2867548802	PATH	Pathology	149
2867548982	PFT	Pulmonary function test	150
2867548983	pc	After meals	151
2867548984	P, p	After	152
2867548985	Per	After	153
2867548986	PM	Evening	154
2867548987	PO, p.o	By mouth	155
2867548988	Post-op	Post-operative	156
2867548989	PPD	Purified protein derivative	157
2867548990	Preop	Preoperative	158
2867548991	Prn	As needed	159
2867548992	PT	Physical therapist	160
2867548993	Pt	Patient	161
2867548994	Q	Every	162
2867548995	Qh	Every hour	163
2867548996	Q 2 h	Every 2 hours	164

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2980786980	Body Cavities	Cranial&Vertebral (Dorsal)Pleural,Abdominal, Abdominopelvic,Ventral,Thoracic,Pericardial,Mediastinum,Pelvic,Dorsal	0
2980840814	9 body regions	Right Hypochondriac,Right Lumbar,right iliac, left hypochondriac,left lumbar,left iliac	1
2980917061	4 quadrants	Right Upper Quadrant, Right Lower Quadrant,Left Upper Quadrant,Left Lower Quadrant	2
2980938382	Directional Terms	Superior,Inferior,Anterior,Posterior,Medial,Lateral,Proximal,Distal,Superficial,Deep,Ventral,Dorsal.	3
2980942316	Example of cutaneous membrane	Nails and Skin	4
2980954300	Various types of physiological and anatomical studies.Similarities and differences	Physiological usually is a test (figure out how function) and Anatomical studies is study of body structure.	5
2981323721	List two major systems that control homeostasis?	Circulatory and Respiratory System	6
2981410984	What is responsiveness?	Ability to detect and respond to changes	7
2981447667	How does a feedback loop work and their components?	A feedback loop is a physiological mechanism to maintain homeostasis.Receptors, control center and effector.	8
2981467472	Three examples of positive feedback loops work and their components.And the examples of negative feedback and their major differences.	Positive feedback is blood clot,milk production,giving birth.The components of positive feedback is stimulus, sensor,control center,effector.Negative Feedback is body temperature,blood pressure,oxygen levels in blood.Negative Feedback works toward homeostasis while positive works away from homeostasis.	9
2981579897	What are chemoreceptors?	Chemoreceptors are a sensory receptor that transduces a chemical signal into an action potential.	10
2983005423	Why is the nervous system so important?	It is so important because it controls all the functions of human body and is one of the major controls of homeostasis.	11
2983032399	What are various types of physiological studies?		12
2983106335	Definition of metabolism	Sum of chemical reactions that occur in the body	13
2983128375	Definition of catabolism	Goes from complex substances broken down into simpler molecules.	14
2983143175	Definition of anabolism	Simple compounds built into substances needed for cell activites.	15
2983147896	Elements essential for life	Water (environment for chemical reactions) Food ( Source of energy and for building new structures) Oxygen (Necessary for release of energy from food) Heat ( determines rate of chemical reaction) Pressure (necessary for material movement)	16
2983168760	What is Differentiation?	Differentiation is the development of the cells from unspecialized to specialized state	17
2983177957	Why is oxygen so important?What is most directly responsible for?	Oxygen is necessary for release of energy from food.	18
2983188815	What is Anatomical Position?	The position with the body erect with the arms at the sides and the palms forward.	19
2983256029	Body Planes	Sagittal,frontal,transverse,oblique,	20
2983287631	Sagittal /MIdsagittal Plane( is where)	half of body	21
2983292942	Frontal	divides into superior and inferior portions	22
2983321188	Transverse	divided into superior and inferior portions	23
2983324185	Oblique	At angle between the other planes	24
2983334378	Body membranes linings	Serous Membrane,Parietal,Visceral	25
2983335645	Levels of organization of a living thing	Chemical,Cellular,Tissue,Organ,Organ System, Organism	26
2983546410	Serous Membrane	COntains epithelial and connective tissues produces serous fluid (lubricant)	27
2983558355	Parietal Layer	LInes the walls of cavitites	28
2983560411	Visceral Layer	Covers the organs	29
2983565282	What surrounds the lungs?	Visceral and Parietal	30
2983568429	What surround the heart?	VIsceral and Parietal pericardium	31

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5607570460	At the poles	Where is distortion the worst.	0
5607580095	Projection	A system for transforming location from a globe to a flat map is	1
5607584482	Site	The physical characteristics of a place	2
5607590703	Mercator	Which type of map projection is this?	3
5607597434	Distance Decay	the interaction between two places declines as the distance between them increases.	4
5607615883	Human/Environment interaction	examines how people depend on the environment (e.g. for water, food), adapt to the environment (e.g. how dress or building construction is affected), and modify the environment (e.g. build roads, affect air quality).	5
5607632770	demography	the statistical study of populations	6
5607640978	overpopulation	this occurs when a population exceeds the carrying capacity	7
5607642878	carrying capacity	The highest amount of a population the environment and resources can sustain.	8
5607656967	Population pyramids	A graphical illustration that shows the distribution of various age groups in a population	9
5607665475	Dependency ratio	The percentage of people who are too young or too old to work in a society is the	10
5607677976	Population pyramid stage 2		11
5607683302	Total Fertility Rate	Used to make predictions about a populations future births. The average number of children that would be born to a woman over her lifetime	12
5607717034	Chad	The highest natural increase rates are found in	13
5607727891	Low agricultural density	A country with a large amount of arable land and a small number of farmers will have	14
5607762291	physiological density	the number of people per unit area of arable land	15
5607769749	demographic transition model	the transition from high birth and death rates to low birth and death rates as a country develops from a pre-industrial to an industrialized economic system.	16
5607777617	Agricultural revolution	The annual global population growth rate increased approximately 10,000 yrs ago because of the	17
5607782677	Africa	Life expectancy is lowest in	18
5607796351	Stage 2	What stage of the DTM do people start to move from rural to urban?	19
5607867807	Stage 3	Which stage of the DTM starts to have a decline in birthrate?	20
5608208185	is less than	A country has net immigration if emigration ___________________ immigration	21
5608215421	emigrant	A person leaving a country	22
5608218815	immigrant	A new person in a country	23
5608224123	forced migrations	What produces refugees?	24
5608233005	economic	What are the main reasons people migrate?	25
5608318336	intervening obstacle	A physical feature, such as a body of water, which hinders migration is an example of	26
5608321726	time contract worker	Asian migrant working on plantation, mine, and railroad(19th c) for a specific amount of time	27
5608333933	chain migration	process by which immigrants from a particular town follow others from that town to a particular city or neighborhood	28
5608339125	Ravensteins Laws	Short distances, rural to urban, young adult are all part of	29
5608343251	Migration Transition Theory	Explains what migration look like in each stage of the DTM	30
5608351670	possibilism	the environment sets certain constraints or limitations, but culture is otherwise determined by social conditions, we can adapt and change it.	31
5608359512	environmental determinism	Early belief that the physical environment predisposes human social development towards particular trajectories.	32
5608375181	cultural ecology	the study of human adaptations to social and physical environments.	33
5608406877	diffusion	spread of a feature from one place to another over time.	34
5608411237	relocation diffusion	spread of an idea through physical movement from one place to another.	35
5608416423	situation	position relative to other features.	36
5608430416	popular culture	heterogeneous societies, rapid diffusion, multiple hearths	37
5608430417	folk culture	homogeneous societies, relocation diffusion, anonymous hearths, isolated rural areas	38
5609727614	uniform landscape and depletion of scarce resources	This is a negative effect of pop culture	39
5609738268	assimilation	Pop culture decreases folk culture through	40
5609772456	habit	The frequent repetition of an act until it becomes a characteristic of a group	41
5609791955	they invaded England	Both Angles and the Normans contributed to the development of the English language because	42
5609946476	pidgin language	is a grammatically simplified means of communication that develops between two or more groups that do not have a language in common	43
5609959731	creole language	a stable natural language that has developed from a pidgin becoming nativized by children as their first language, with a fully developed vocabulary and system of grammar.	44
5609959732	Indo european	what is the largest language family	45
5609963308	sino tibetan	What is the second largest language family	46
5609967102	english	What is the most widely diffused language in the world	47
5609977105	west germanic	What group does English belong to?	48
5610001774	language family	Which is the largest language grouping	49
5610040442	spelling, pronunciation, vocabulary	British and American English differ in what ways?	50
5610079133	Asia	Most migrants to the US during the 1960s and 1970s came from	51
5610557823	doubling time	Chinas one child policy has not resulted in a substantial decline in this	52
5610573021	crude Birth rate	The number of live births per year per 1,000 people in a society is the	53
5610580634	universalizing religion	Appeals to people in a wide variety of places, seeks converts, holidays based on founder	54
5610586680	ethnic religion	Relocation diffusion, holidays based on agriculture	55
5610611161	Northeast, Southwest	Where in the US are Roman Catholics clustered?	56
5610613776	Israel	Where is there a large clustering of Jewish people?	57
5610624406	Southwest Asia	Where did Islam, Christianity, and Judaism all begin?	58
5610630511	Islam	Adherents to what religion would take part in the 5 pillars of faith?	59
5610662917	Christian branches	Eastern orthodox, protestant, roman catholic	60
5610740425	self determination	The concept that nationalities have the right to govern themselves	61
5610745879	balkanization	breakdown of a state due to conflict among nationalities	62
5610752659	nationality	people tied to a place through legal status and tradition	63
5610756455	centripetal forces	Unites people with each other	64
5610760103	centrifugal forces	Pushes people away from each other	65
5610765206	nation state	A state where everyone inside is the same	66
5610776002	multi national state	a state with multiple nationalities wanting self determination	67
5610783214	multi ethnic state	a state where many ethnicities live together	68
5611119616	Southwest	Where in the US are Hispanics clustered?	69

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7576969317	Ahura Mazda	In Zoroastrianism, the good god who rules the world.	0
7576969318	Alexander the Great	Alexander III of Macedon (356-323 B.C.E.), conqueror of the Persian Empire and part of northwest India.	1
7576969319	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
7576969320	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
7576969323	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.	4
7576969324	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.	5
7576969327	Han dynasty	Dynasty that ruled China from 206 B.C.E. to 220 C.E., creating a durable state based on Shihuangdi's state-building achievement.	6
7576969328	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.	7
7576969329	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.	8
7576969332	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.	9
7576969337	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.	10
7576969338	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.	11
7576969340	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.	12
7576969342	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.	13
7576969343	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.	14
7576969344	Qin Shihuangdi	Literally "first emperor" (r. 221-210 B.C.E.) forcibly reunited China and established a strong and repressive state.	15
7576969346	Wudi	Han emperor (r. 141-86 B.C.E.) who began the Chinese civil service system by establishing an academy to train imperial bureaucrats.	16
7576969350	Aristotle	A Greek polymath philosopher (384-322 B.C.E.); student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great.	17
7576969351	Atman	The human soul, which in classic Hindu belief seeks union with Brahman.	18
7576969355	Brahman	The "World Soul" or final reality in upanishadic Hindu belief.	19
7576969357	Buddhism	The cultural/religious tradition first enunciated by Siddhartha Gautama	20
7576969358	Confucianism	The Chinese philosophy first enunciated by Confucius, advocating the moral example of superiors as the key element of social order.	21
7576969359	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.	22
7576969360	Constantine	Roman emperor (r. 306-337 C.E.) whose conversion to Christianity paved the way for the triumph of Christianity in Europe.	23
7576969362	Daoism	A Chinese philosophy/popular religion that advocates simplicity and understanding of the world of nature, founded by the legendary figure Laozi.	24
7576969363	Filial piety	The honoring of one's ancestors and parents, a key element of Confucianism.	25
7576969364	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.	26
7576969365	Hinduism	A word derived from outsiders to describe the vast diversity of indigenous Indian religious traditions.	27
7576969368	Jesus of Nazareth	The prophet/God/founder of Christianity(ca. 4 B.C.E.-ca. 30 C.E.).	28
7576969370	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.	29
7576969371	Laozi	A legendary Chinese philosopher of the sixth century B.C.E.; regarded as the founder of Daoism.	30
7576969372	Legalism	A Chinese philosophy distinguished by an adherence to clear laws with vigorous punishments.	31
7576969374	Moksha	In Hindu belief, liberation from separate existence and union with Brahman.	32
7576969375	Nirvana	The end goal of Buddhism, in which individual identity is "extinguished" into a state of serenity and great compassion.	33
7576969376	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.	34
7576969378	Paul of Tarsus	The first great popularizer of Christianity (10-65 C.E.).	35
7576969379	Siddhartha Gautama	The Indian prince turned ascetic (ca. 566-ca. 486 B.C.E.) who founded Buddhism.	36
7576969380	Socrates	The first great Greek philosopher to turn rationalism toward questions of human existence (469-399 B.C.E.).	37
7576969383	Upanishads	Indian mystical and philosophical works, written between 800 and 400 B.C.E.	38
7576969384	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.	39
7576969385	Warring States Period	Period in China from 403 to 221 B.C.E. that was typified by disorder and political chaos.	40
7576969386	Yin and Yang	Expression of the Chinese belief in the unity of opposites.	41
7576969387	Zarathustra	A Persian prophet, traditionally dated to the sixth or seventh century B.C.E. (but perhaps much older), who founded Zoroastrianism.	42
7576969388	Zoroastrianism	Persian monotheistic religion founded by the prophet Zarathustra.	43
7576969389	caste as varna	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.	44
7576969392	karma	In Indian belief, the force generated by one's behavior in a previous life that decides the level at which an individual will be reborn.	45
7576969397	scholar-gentry class	A term used to describe members of China's landowning families, reflecting their wealth from the land and the privilege that they derived as government officials.	46
7576969406	Bantu expansion	Gradual migration of peoples from their homeland in what is now southern Nigeria and the Cameroons into most of eastern and southern Africa, a process that began around 3000 B.C.E. and continued for several millennia. The agricultural techniques and ironworking technology of thesefarmers gave them an advantage over the gathering and hunting peoples they encountered.	47
7576969420	Semi-sedentary	Term frequently used to describe the peoples of the eastern woodlands of the United States, Central America, the Amazon basin, and the Caribbean islands who combined partial reliance on agriculture with gathering and hunting.	48
7576969421	Teotihuacán	The largest city of pre-Columbian America, with a population between 100,000 and 200,000; seemingly built to a plan in the Valley of Mexico, flourished between 300 and 600 C.E., during which time it governed or influenced much of the surrounding region. The name is an Aztec term meaning "city of the gods."	49

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6870137806	The main actors in the cold war were ________.	The United States and the Soviet Union	0
6870137807	The eastern bloc was the region of ________ in Europe.	Soviet influence	1
6870137808	Who was the U.S. president at the end of World War II?	Harry Truman	2
6870137809	Which of these phrases was coined by Winston Churchill to denote division in the cold war?	The iron curtain	3
6870137810	The Marshall Plan provided ________ to Europe.	Financial support	4
6870137811	In the 1950s, the North Atlantic Treaty Alliance (NATO) included nations from what region(s)?	North America and western Europe	5
6870137812	The leader of the Warsaw Pact was ________.	The Soviet Union	6
6870137813	Following World War II, Britain was led by a ________ government.	Labour	7
6870137814	Technocrats were ________.	Professional bureaucrats	8
6870137815	Which of these was created in Europe in 1957?	The European Economic Community	9
6870137816	The Truman Doctrine was a response to________.	The spread of communism	10
6870137817	The policy of containment developed under ________.	Dwight Eisenhower	11
6870137818	In the 1970s, women made up as much as ________ percent of the labor force in most Western countries.	44	12
6870137819	The last nation to give women the vote, Switzerland, did so in what year?	1971	13
6870137820	The work that helped launch the movement known as the new feminism was ________.	The Second Sex	14
6870137821	The author of The Feminine Mystique was ________.	Betty Friedan	15
6870137822	Which of these was a communist country, but not a member of the Soviet bloc?	Yugoslavia	16
6870137823	The Berlin Wall was constructed in what decade?	1960s	17
6870137824	The Solidarity movement emerged in ________ in the 1970s.	Poland	18
6870137825	The author of The Gulag Archipelago was ________	Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn	19
6870137826	Nikita Khrushchev came to power in the ________.	1950s	20
6870137827	The process of de-Stalinization began under the leadership of ________.	Nikita Khrushchev	21
6870137828	In the 1960s, the Soviet Union removed missiles that had been installed in ________.	Cuba	22
6870137829	The Soviet satellite Sputnik was launched in ________.	1957	23
6870137830	In 1979, the Soviet Union invaded ________.	Afghanistan	24
6870137831	World War II had the impact of ________ decolonization.	Hastening	25
6870137832	Cold war tensions first became noticeable ________ World War II.	During the end of	26
6870137833	The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) followed the same direction as what other alliance?	The Atlantic Charter	27
6870137834	The Warsaw Pact and NATO signaled the ________ of cold war tensions.	Deepening	28
6870137835	The development of the welfare state was closely tied to what other development?	Total war	29
6870137836	Which of these groups emerged as a key group in political activism in the postwar period?	Students	30
6870137837	The Marshall Plan was one of many developments in the 1940s and 1950s that were accompanied by ________ among European countries.	More coordination	31
6870137838	Map 32.3, reflecting the European Union (EU) in 2013, shows that by this time the EU included ________.	Most of eastern and western Europe.	32
6870137839	The European Union is distinct from the Common Market, which was a(n) ________ union.	Economic	33
6870137840	The North American Free Trade Agreement, signed in 1988 between Canada and the United States, was the American equivalent of ________.	The European Economic Community	34
6870137841	Between World War II and 2000, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and Britain ________ their relationship.	Loosened	35
6870137842	The context of the Marshall Plan was the ________.	Emerging cold war	36
6870137843	The Korean War was a battleground between ________.	Cold war rivals	37
6870137844	Patterns of women's work in the 1940s and 1950s ________ a trend begun to the 1800s.	Continued	38
6870137845	In the area of voting rights, patterns ________ patterns established by 1900.	Expanded on	39
6870137846	The table in "Women at Work in France and the United States" shows that changes in the percentage of women in the workforce moved ________ in the United States compared to France between 1954 and 1982.	More rapidly	40
6870137847	In the history of European communism under Soviet leadership, Yugoslavia presented a(n) ________.	Anomaly	41
6870137848	The Berlin Wall was constructed at the ________ of the period of cold war tensions.	Height	42
6870137849	A distinctive element of Poland's challenge to Soviet domination was ________.	Catholicism	43
6870137850	The Soviet Union demonstrated the high cost of ________.	Rapid industrialization	44
6870137851	The process of de-Stalinization can be characterized as a rejection of ________.	The peculiarities of Stalin's regime	45
6870137852	As used by Dwight Eisenhower, the term "military industrial complex" is defined as a(n) ________.	Unusual amount of collaboration between defense industries and the government	46
6870137853	Compared to World War I, damage to Europe and Europeans during World War II was ________.	Much greater	47
6870137854	Like China and France, the United States found ________ Vietnam.	That it was costly to try to control	48
6870137855	De-Stalinization arguably ________ the trend announced by Lenin's New Economic Policy.	Resumed	49

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2910686351	Sanskirt	The sacred and classical Indian language	0
2910686704	Varnas	Clusters of caste groups in Aryan society	1
2910687457	Guptas	Dynasty that succeeded the Kushans in the 3rd century CE	2
2910689826	Mauryan	Dynasty established in India subcontinent in 4th century BCE following invasion by Alexander the great	3
2910691201	Chandragupta Maurya	Founder of Maurya dynasty, established first empire in Indian subcontinent	4
2910692235	Dharma	The caste position and career determined by a persons birth	5
2910692613	Guru	Originally referred to brahamns who served as teachers for the princes of imperial court of guptas	6
2910695738	Nirvana	The Buddhist state of enlightenment	7
2910696717	Kamustra	Written by vatasayana during Gupta era, offered instructions on all aspects of life for higher caste males	8
2910698977	Stupas	Stone shrines built to house pieces of bone or hair and personal possessions said to be relics of Buddha	9
2910700107	Jati	The thousands of clans, tribes, communities in India	10
2910718098	Ashoka	Grandson of Chandragupta Maurya	11

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