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10625241516	Persian Empire	A major empire around 550 BCE to 330 BCE that stretched from Egypt to India with famous rulers name Cyrus and Darius	0
10625241517	satraps and satrapies	The Persian empire was broken up into 20 of these local governor was responsible for collecting tax and keeping the peace	1
10625241518	athens	Greek city state that developed the worlds first democracy	2
10625241519	Alexander the Great	The man that conquered Persia and is known for the spread of Hellenistic culture	3
10625241520	Greco-Persian Wars	Series of battles between the Persian empire and Greece that created the east/west divide	4
10625241521	Achaemenid Dynasty	Founding dynasty of the Persian empire	5
10625241522	ashoka	a mauryan King who is known for converting to Buddhism and Spreading it through India	6
10625241523	Hellenism	blending of Egyptian, Persian and especially Greek culture; emphasizes on philosophy and sciences	7
10625241524	Pax Romana	A period of peace and prusperity Throughout the Roman empire, lasting from 27 BC two A.D. 180	8
10625241525	empire	A group of states or countries with different languages, is customs and the geography under single authority	9
10625241526	Chandragupta Maurya	he was the one who laid the foundation for the Mauryan Empire. It was the first state to have a centralized and unified government in India	10
10625241527	mauryan empire	Largest single state in ancient India with its capital at pataliputra , And it lasted from about 321 to 185 B.C.E.	11
10625241528	Roman Republic	Ancient Mediterranean Form of government where individuals could elect representatives that would help facilitate government	12
10625241529	Direct Democracy	A form of government in which citizens have the power to make laws and governmen, And they do not have representatives	13
10625241530	city state	another name for this term is polis	14
10625241531	qin shihuangdi	reunited China and he standardized currency, laws, And weights and measures	15
10625241532	qin dynasty	Construction of the great wall of China begin during this dynasty and legalism became the leading philosophy	16
10625241533	han dynasty	During this Chinese dynasty legalism fell out of favor and confusion philosophy and civil service exams were used, considered the golden age of Chinese culture	17
10625241534	second wave empires	civilizations that developed after the collapse of the bronze age civilizations	18
10625241535	latifundia	With in Rome, Concord farmland were olives and grapes were grown and the origin of farmers often had to move to cities, lead to a lack of available soldiers for the legions	19
10625241536	pater familias	The Roman father was a supreme head of this family	20
10625241537	Legalism	Chinese political philosophy based on the idea that human nature is evil and selfish and the laws should have clear punishment and rewards	21
10625241538	Vedic Religion	The name for the oldest form of Hindu religion	22
10625241539	Greek rationalism	This emphasizes the power of education and woman reason to understand the world and non-religious terms	23
10625241540	socrates	A great philosopher who believed that humans have the duty to explore the truth between right and wrong and there could be a universal definition of justice which would be true for all people in all situations	24
10625241541	Confucianism	Chinese philosophy about social order were everyone has a place and respect is paid to elders, parents, and the government. The relationships are, ruler to ruled call my father to son, older brother to younger brother, husband to wife, friend to friend	25
10625241542	Jesus of Nazareth	A Jewish social reformer Who was considered by some to be the Messiah, born seat. To BCE during the region of the Roman emperor tiberius	26
10625241543	Doasim/toasim	Chinese religion that teaches there is natural order to the universe and wu-wei or inaction is a central idead	27
10625241544	Upanishad	Indian religious texts that were written by anonymous thinkers are outlined the ideas of atman, brahman , and moskha. A philosophical review of the vedas	28
10625241545	Siddhartha Gautama	known as the enlightened One, was once an Indian princess who devoted his life to ending Suffering, teaching about the four Noble truths and eight fold path	29
10625241546	Theravada Buddhism	this version Believes the Buddha is a wise teacher and model, more philosophical - teaching if the elders	30
10625241547	Mahayana Buddhism	this version of Buddhism claims the Buddha became a divine leader that has been re-incarnated into future buddhas- great vahicle buddhism	31
10625241548	Bhagavad Gita	An epic poem in which arjuna is advised by krishna And his battle against ignorant and self righteousness	32
10625241549	Zoroastrianism	and ancient Persian religion ahura manzda Is the chief God	33
10625241550	vedas	a central text of an Indian religion composed of chance/hymns, Religious songs dedicated to the devas. The oldest text of Hinduism	34
10625241551	Judism	abrahamie Religion and its central tenents are found in the Torah	35
10625241552	saint paul	A Roman citizen and famous apostle that converted to Christianity while traveling to damascus	36