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Shang Dynasty   earliest Chinese dynasty for which we have written records Oracle bones  
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Zhou Dynasty   dynasty that took over the dominant position in north China from the Shang and created the concept of the Mandate of Heaven  
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Qin Dynasty   Shihangdi unifier of china  
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Han   Finishes the Great Wall of China and mostly smooths china out.  
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Confucius   as a code of conduct for government officials  
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Mandate of Heaven   Created in Zhou Dynasty in which those in power were given the right to rule from a divine source  
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Shihuangdi   Emperor of the Qin Dynasty and known for his ruthless conquests of rival states, standardization, the great wall, and his Terra Cotta army  
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Classical Civilization   civilizations that had strong central governments, developed trade networks, and made major contributions to our modern world  
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1600 B.C.E. - 1050 B.C.E   Shang Dynasty  
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1046 B.C.E. 256 B.C. E   Zhou Dynasty  
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500 B.C.E. - 221 B.C.E   Warring States  
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221 - 206 B.C.E   Qin Dynasty  
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206 B.C.E. - 220 C.E   Han Dynasty  
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Sui Dynasty   between the Han and the Tang dynasty strengthened the government, and introduced Buddhism to China  
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Feudalism   social system that developed during the Middle Ages; nobles offered protection and land in return for service  
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Zoroastrianism   religion that saw material existence as a battle between the forces of good and evil  
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Alexander the Great   conquered Persian Empire and advanced to borders of India; attempted to combine Greek and Persian culture; taught by Aristotle  
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Yellow Turbans   Chinese Daoists who launched a revolt in 184 C.E, promising a golden age to be brought about by divine magic.  
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Darius   Persian ruler who brought order to the Persian Empire. He also built roads; established a postal system; and standardized weights, measures, and coinage.  
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Cyrus   Founder of the Achaemenid Persian Empire  
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Persian empire   Of or relating to Iran or its people or language or culture  
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Parthians   Persian dynasty very heavy calvary  
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Persian Wars   Conflicts between Greek city-states and the Persian Empire  
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Han Wudi   expanded the Empire in all directions; created the Civil Service System based upon Confucian learning; established Imperial University; promoted the Silk Roads  
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Confucianism   system of ethics, education, and statesmanship taught by Confucius and his disciples, stressing love for humanity, ancestor worship, reverence for parents, and harmony in thought and conduct  
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Daoism   Daoists believe that the world is always changing and is devoid of absolute morality or meaning.  
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Ashoka   extended conquests of the dynasty; converted to Buddhism and sponsored its spread throughout his empire.  
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Chandra Gupta   foundations for the Gupta empire, he forged alliances with powerful families in the Ganges Region and established a dynamic kingdom about the year 320 C.E. Golden Age  
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White Huns   Nomadic invaders from central Asia; invaded India; disrupted Gupta administration  
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Buddhism   religion or philosophy based on the teaching of the Buddha that a state of enlightenment can be attained by suppressing worldly desire  
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Aristotle   Greek philosopher  
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Sparta   Greek city-state that was ruled by an oligarchy, focused on military, used slaves for agriculture, discouraged the arts  
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Plebeians   Members of the lower class of Ancient Rome including farmers, merchants, artisans and traders  
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Pax Romana   A period of peace and prosperity throughout the Roman Empire, lasting from 27 B.C. to A.D. 180  
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Silk roads   Trade routes stretching from China to the Mediterranean, which allowed for the exchange of goods and ideas from China to the Roman Empire  
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patricians   the wealthy class in Roman society; landowners  
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Twelve Tables   the earliest written collection of Roman laws, drawn up by patricians about 450B.C., that became the foundation of Roman law  
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Athens   the capital and largest city of Greece  
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Pericles   Athenian statesman whose leadership contributed to Athen  
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socrates   Greek philosopher; sentenced to death for corrupting Athens youth  
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Buddha   Buddha Indian prince named Siddhartha Gautama, who renounced his wealth and social position  
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Hinduism   wide variety of beliefs and ritual practices that have developed in the Indian subcontinent since antiquity  
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Judaism   A religion with a belief in one god. It originated with Abraham and the Hebrew people.  
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City- State   An urban center and the agricultural land around it under its control  
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Civil Service   In China, started by the Han, based on Confucius teachings  
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Franks   Germanic people who lived and held power in Gaul. Their leader was Clovis and he would later bring Christianity to the region.  
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Islam   Monotheistic religion beginning in the Middle East; Muslims believe that Allah transmitted his words to the faithful through Muhammad  
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Theocracy   A government ruled by immediate divine guidance or by officials who are regarded as being divinely guided  
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Mongol Empire   Largest land empire in the history of the world, spanning from Eastern Europe across Asia; split into hordes  
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Maya   Mesoamerican civilization concentrated in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula and in Guatemala and Honduras  
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Aztec   Empire in central Mexico with the capital city of Tenochtitlan  
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Inca   Empire in the Andes Mountains of South America; capital at Cuzco; expansionist policy  
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Athenian democracy   comprising the city of Athens and the surrounding territory of Attica. Athens is one of the first known democracies.  
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Hellenistic Period   Ancient Period for the European and Near Asian space. The use of this period is justified by the extent of the Hellenic culture in most of these areas.  
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Caesar Augustus   first emperor of the Roman Empire after Julius Caesar died  
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Maurya Empire   geographically extensive Iron Age historical power in ancient India  
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Social ranking system   Rank you get depending on your social class. Social test  
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Indus   Flourished the longest out of all the others  
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Civ drop   Pop drop  
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Roman laungage   Latin  
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Wudi   Civil service system  
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social mobility   Test to move you up in social classes(China)  
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Romes army   Well trained, well fed, and well rewarded  
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Rome now   Italy  
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Alexander united   Greece  
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Greek citizen   Man, landowning,free  
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Athens had   Direct Democracy  
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Harem   Place where the women go  
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Dynastic cycle   Rise and fall of dynasties  
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Persepolis   Persian Capital  
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Empire   Take land by force  
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China   Technological change  
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Merchants were   Risk takers  
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the change between second and third wave   not much happened  
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3 waves   First, second, and third  
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Rationalism   belief or theory that opinions and actions should be based on reason and knowledge rather than on religious belief or emotional response  
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Christianity   the religion based on the person and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, or its beliefs and practices  
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Greek Geography   Island and mountain isolated  
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Herodotus   Greek historian whose writings, chiefly concerning the Persian Wars, are the earliest known examples of narrative history  
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Justinian code   A compilation of Roman imperial law made by order of Justinian I, forming part of the Corpus Juris Civilis  
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Minoan   Prosperous civilization on the Aegean island of Crete in the second millennium B.C.E.  
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Shaft Graves   Graves A term used for the burial sites of elite members of Mycenaean Greek society in the mid-second millennium B.C.E.  
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Phoenicians   Semitic-speaking Canaanites living on the coast of modern Lebanon and Syria in the first millennium B.C.E.  
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Satrap   The governor of a province in the Achaemenid Persian Empire, often a relative of the king.  
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Polis   A city-state in ancient Greece  
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Hoplite   Heavily armored Greek infantryman of the Archaic and Classical periods who fought in the close-packed phalanx formation.  
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Peloponnesian War   A protracted and costly conflict between the Athenian and Spartan alliance systems that convulsed most of the Greek world.  
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Assyrians   ethnic group whose origins lie in ancient northern Mesopotamia. They are a Semitic people who speak, read, and write distinct dialects of Eastern Aramaic exclusive to northern Mesopotamia and its immediate surroundings.  
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Babylon   was originally a Semitic Akkadian city dating from the period of the Akkadian Empire c. 2300 BC.  
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industrialization   process in which a society or country transforms itself from a primarily agricultural society into one based on the manufacturing of goods and services.  
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panoramic   with a wide view surrounding the observer; sweeping  
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helot   a member of a class of serfs in ancient Sparta, intermediate in status between slaves and citizens.  
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kshatriya   a member of the second of the four great Hindu castes, the military caste.  
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Punic Wars   were a series of three wars fought between Rome and Carthage from 264 BC to 146 BC. At the time, they were probably the largest wars that had ever taken place.  
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twelve tables is like   Hammurabis code  
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pax romana 200 years of what?   Piece  
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Rome   From republic to divine empire  
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Qin Dynasty starts   Unity  
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Ming Dyanasty    
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leagalism   excessive adherence to law or formula.  
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Ban Zhao   Scholar from the Han Dynasty  
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Vedas   the most ancient Hindu scriptures  
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Upanishads   series of Hindu sacred treatises expounding the Vedas in predominantly mystical and monistic terms  
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Siddhartha Gautama   Buddha  
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Theravada   one of the two the major traditions of Buddhism more conservative of the two major traditions of Buddhism  
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Mahayana   one of the two major traditions of Buddhism, now practiced in a variety of forms especially in China, Tibet, Japan, and Korea  
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Bhagavad Gita   sacred Hindu text  
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Greek rationalism   Greek rationalism deals with trying to understand the world using logic and observation  
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Socrates   Greek philosopher credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy  
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Plato   philosopher as well as mathematician in Classical Greece  
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Jesus   Major person in Christianity teaches the word of his god.  
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Nazareth   Nazareth is the largest city in the North District of Israel  
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Jesus   Believed in after life taught for 3 years until crucified he is a reformer.  
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Both Jesus and Buddha   Believed in "being good", Love not war, and both were just a normal guy at first, then evolved into a deity.  
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Buddha   Started off poor, was a prince, 40 years of teaching until death, and fixed hinduism  
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Women can be nuns but cant   be a preacher  
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house churches   Church that was in someones house  
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Fractio Panis   Roman catacomb  
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Roman empire doesn't like Christianity when   Jesus is around  
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Theodosius the empire that makes everyone one switch to   Christianity  
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no Hierarchy means no   Violent Slpits  
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Hierarchy   system or organization in which people or groups are ranked one above the other  
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Buddhism always focused on improving yourself.    
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Wang Shugu   Chinese artist  
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Legalism brings what back together   China  
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Filial Piety   Family is holy  
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Bodhi tree   Where Buddha meditated  
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Dharma   The job that you are suppose to do.  
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4 noble means   all life is suffering, suffering is from attachmetnt to people and things, there is a way, 8 Fold Path  
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8 Fold Path   Be good  
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Nirvana   Extinglish  
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Buddhist hate   Brahmins  
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Male monks   Female Nuns  
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Zoroastrianism   First monotheistic religion  
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Persian is modern   Iran  
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Judaism is about keeping   Covenent  
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Spaa   Plato, Socrates, Alexander, Aristatol  
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Roman Empire spread what culture   Greek  
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Universal religion   a religion that is adapted widely by outsiders. Like Buddhism, Christian, and islam  
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Pure leaders make   good followers  
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meritocracy   government or the holding of power by people selected on the basis of their ability  
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Book of The Analects   Confucius book  
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Apology   Defense  
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Socrates chooses death over what   being banished from his village  
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Constantine   Roman emperor and made Christianity a favored religion  
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Greek rationalism   system of scientific and philosophic thought that developed in classical Greece  
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karma   determining factor of the level at which the individual is reincarnated  
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Laozi   Chinese philosopher founder of Daoism  
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nirvana   The end goal of Buddhism wherein individual identity is "extinguished" into a state of serenity and great compassion  
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Saint Paul   The first great person to make Christianity more popular  
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yin and yang   Expression of the Chinese belief in the unity of opposites.  
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Zarathustra   Persian prophet who founded Zoroastrianism  
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Roman Republic   Rome was largely governed by the aristocratic Roman Senate.  
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aqueduct   a conduit, either elevated or underground, using gravity to carry water from a souce to a location that needed it  
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Augustine   Christian that made major contributions in incorporating elements of classical philosophy into Christianity  
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Benedict   founder of monasticism in the former western half of the Roman Empire  
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bodhisattvas   Buddhist holy men  
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animism   eligious outlook that sees gods in many aspects of nature  
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Pythagoras   Greek philosopher who believed that an unchanging mathematical order underlies the apparent chaos of the world.  
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Moksha   liberation from separate existence and union with the Brahman  
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Atman   The human soul, which in classic Hindu belief seeks union with Brahman  
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Ahura Mazda   In Zoroastrianism, the good god who rules the world  
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Islam   The religion of the Muslims  
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Pope   Bishop of Rome head of Christian Church in western Europe  
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Who starts civil service exam   Wu Di  
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Harijan   Children of god  
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Po Chu   Famous Poet from Tang Dynasty  
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Wang Mang   Land Redistribution  
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Scholar-Gentry   Smart-Old  
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Peasents are the   Backbone  
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Xian   Capital of Han China  
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Scholars are usually   Sneaky  
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Lowest rank in the caste hierarchy   Dalits  
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Varna   4 ranked classes. Brahmins-Priest, Kshatiya-Warriors, Vaisya-commoners, Sudras-native people  
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When caste restrictions tighten this became harder for   Individuals to raise their social status  
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Dharma   The principle or law that orders the universe  
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untouchables   Lowest category in caste system.  
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Wudi   Chinese emperor that started the civil service exame  
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Wang Mang   Land redistribution  
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Peasent   the back bone  
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scholar-gentry   Smart-old  
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Capital of Han China   Xian  
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Dravidian   dark sin  
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Sudra   Not allowed to learn how to read.  
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Untouchables aren't considered part of the   Caste system  
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Brahmins cant eat _____ but warriors can   Meat  
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The higher you are in your caste means   The more pure your blood is  
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If you were valved you were   respected  
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Caste keeps India   Fragmented  
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Slavery is based off of domestication of animals, and men owning women   animals and men owning women  
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Most slaves were   P.O.Ws Prisoners of war  
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Everybody after the first wave civilizations pretty much had   Slaves  
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Second wave slavery =   Greece and Rome  
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In China if you were poor you could sell your   childern  
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IF you are in dept, criminal, P.O.W, you were   a slave  
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Slavery was minor in China and   India  
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Manumisson   Getting set free  
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In Rome slaves could be   teachers, Poets, and even actors  
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When the Romans spread it causes   Slavery  
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Evened Poor People had at least one or two   Slaves  
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Slaves are   sub-humman  
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Benevolent   Being good to do good  
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Weapons of the Weak   Slaves would sabotage the land by putting salt on it to get revenge on the masters  
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Haitian revolution   Most successful slave revolt  
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Maya =   Writing in america  
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Classical age =   Rome and greece  
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Land in Africa wasn't   good half was desert and half was rainforest  
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Africa had different climates none of them were good for   growing crops  
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Meroe =   Metal  
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Meroe failed because of   Metal  
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Africa is about long distance   Trade  
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Nubia converts to   Coptic  
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Obelisks   Stone towers came from Egypt  
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Axum was introduced to   Christanity  
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Soil exhaustion and Islam bring down   Axumite  
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citadels   City center  
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Griots   Early historians  
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Transshipment point   two different ways to ship  
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Bantu is all about   Diffusion  
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Bantu were slow and gradual in changing   changing  
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Bananas came from Indonesia to   Africa  
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Bantu had and was based on   No queens or kings, kinship and lineage  
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Bantu are   spritual  
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universal religion includes   Christianity and Buddhism  
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Meso America is between   Mexico and the tip of South America  
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Yucatan is were the Maya's   Mostly were  
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Three sisters   Maize, beans, squash  
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Hieroglyphic writing wasn't just in   Egypt  
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Gupta and Maya =   zero as a place holder  
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Teotihuacan   dont know its goverment  
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Andes need to   Terrace  
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Moche was governed by   Warrior-Priest  
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Civilizations started on   a body of water mostly rivers  
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