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88 Cards in this Set
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Land bridge theory |
People migrated from Siberia to Alaska across a land bridge that spanned the current day Bering Strait |
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Bronze Age |
Time period characterized by the use of bronze, Proto writing, and other features of urban civilization |
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Neolithic revolution |
Hunting and gathering led to agriculture which led to permanent settlements |
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Paleolithic age |
Stone Age, the earliest period of human development |
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Mesolithic age |
Middle Stone Age, gradual domestication of plants and animals |
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Venus figures |
Umbrella term for hundreds of prehistoric statuettes of women |
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Venus figures |
Umbrella term for hundreds of prehistoric statuettes of women |
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Pastoral |
Land or farm used for or related to the keeping or grazing of sheep or cattle |
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Hammurabi |
King of the Babylonian dynasty made code of laws |
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Harappa |
Archaeological site in Punjab, Pakistan, successive city |
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Mohenjo Daro |
Archeological site in the province of Sindhi, Pakistan one of the largest settlements of the ancient Indus Valley civilization |
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Zoroaster |
Founder of Zoroastrianism |
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Abraham |
Founding father of covenant in Judaism |
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Gilgamesh |
Main character in the epic of Gilgamesh an Akkadian poem |
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Cuneiform |
Wedge shaped characters used in the ancient writing systems |
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Hatshepsut |
Fifth pharaoh of the eighteenth dynasty of Egypt adopted male attributes |
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Rhamses II |
Third pharaoh of the nineteenth dynasty of Egypt, greatest pharaoh of the Egyptian empire |
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Ashoka |
Indian emperor of the Maurya dynasty almost ruled all of India |
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Meroe |
Ancient city on the east bank of the Nile |
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Chavin |
Extinct culture in the northern Andean highlands of Peru |
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Teotehuacan |
Ancient mesoamerican city located in sub valley of the valley of Mexico |
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syncretism |
The combination of different forms of belief or practice |
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Provincialism |
Ignorance of manners, customs, and nature of people living outside ones village |
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Xiongnu |
Nomadic pastoral people who at the end of the 3rd century formed a great tribal league |
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Visigoths |
Branches of nomadic tribes of Germanic people's aka goths |
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Plato |
Greek philosopher founder of academy in Athens |
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Augustus |
Founder of the Roman empire |
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Kushan |
Syncretic empire formed by Yuezgj |
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Gupta |
Ancient Indian empire founded by Maharaja Sri Gupta |
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Mahayana |
Different type of Buddhism |
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Theravada |
Different type of Buddhism, school |
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Bhakti |
Devotion and love to a personal god in Hinduism |
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Mandate of Heaven |
Chinese belief that granted emperors the right to rule based on their ability to govern well and fairly |
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Lao Tzu |
Philosopher in China founder of Taoism |
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Hellenism |
Period from the death of Alexander the Great to the death of Cleopatra |
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Great Zimbabwe |
Ruined city in the southeastern hills of Zimbabwe |
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Kilwa |
Old sea port south of Tanzania |
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Silla |
One of the three kingdoms of Korea and one of the worlds longest sustained dynasties |
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Jizya |
Religiously required per capita yearly tax on certain non Muslim subjects (dhimmis) |
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Seljuk |
Turkic Sunni Muslim dynasty |
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Bronze Age |
Time period characterized by the use of bronze, Proto writing, and other features of urban civilization |
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Zheng He |
Was a court Hui court eunuch, mariner, explorer, diplomat, and fleet admiral during China's early Ming dynasty |
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Abbasid |
Relating to dynasty of caliphs who ruled in Baghdad from 750 to 1258 |
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Abu Bakr |
Compassion of 1st Muslim leader after Muhammad, regarded by Sunni's as the 1st caliph and rightful successor |
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Mali |
A huge territorial empire that flourished in west Africa during the thirteenth centuries. Capital Timbuktu |
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Timbuktu |
Capital of Mali |
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Mansa Musa |
Emperor of the Mali empire during the 14th century |
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Qanat |
Sloping underground channel or tunnel constructed to lead water from the interior of a hill to a village below |
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Li Bai |
Aka Li Po was a Chinese poet |
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Sung |
Imperial dynasty of China noted for art literature philosophy |
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Tang |
Imperial dynasty of china founded by Li family who seized power during the decline and collapse of the Sui empire |
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Angkor Wat |
Temple complex in Cambodia and the largest religious monument in the world |
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Bantu migration |
Bantu speaking people migrating to modern day Nigeria from Western Africa |
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Swahili |
Bantu language |
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Dhow |
A lateen rigged ship with one or two masts, used in the Indian Ocean |
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Astrolabe |
Instrument used to make astronomical measurements |
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Champa rice |
Quick maturing, drought resistance rice that can allow two harvests |
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Ibn Battuta |
Arab explorer, journeyed through North and west Africa, India, and China 1325-1354 |
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Shamanism |
Animistic religion of Asia |
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Animism |
Belief that everything has a soul |
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Shinto |
Japanese religion worship of ancestors and nature spirits |
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Feudalism |
Social system in medieval Europe |
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Sundiate |
Epic poem of the Malinke people |
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Justinian |
Byzantine emperor under his rule made Hagia Sophia and laws |
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Dar al Islam |
Area of the world under rule of Islam |
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Viking age |
Period in Northern European and Scandinavian, explored oceans and rivers of Europe |
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Angkor kingdom |
South east Khmer kingdom |
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Encomienda |
Grant by the Spanish crown to a colonist in America conferring the right to demand tribute and forced labor from the Indian inhabitants of the area |
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Middle passage |
Sea journey undertaken by slave ships from west Africa to the West Indies |
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Caravel |
Small fast Spanish or Portuguese sailing ship |
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Galleon |
a sailing ship used by Spain |
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Babur |
First mogul emperor of India |
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Akbar |
Mughal emperor one of greatest rulers of the Mughal dynasty |
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Aurangzeb |
Sixth Mughal emperor |
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Sunni |
Largest branch of Islam people of the tradition of Muhammad |
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Safavid |
Member of a dynasty that ruled Persia installed Shia |
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Reformation |
16th century movement for the reform of abuses in the roman Catholic Church ending in the establishment of the reformed and Protestant churches |
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Calvin |
Founded Calvinism which was later reformed into Catholicism |
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Martin Luther |
Challenged the pope on the issue of indulgences Luther began the Protestant reformation |
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Jesuit |
A Roman Catholic founded to do missionary work |
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Yoruba |
Member of a people of southwestern Nigeria and Benin |
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Lepanto |
Naval battle and the Turkish fleet was defeated |
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Shia |
Branch of Islam believed that Ali was successor as Caliph |
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Constantinople |
Capital city of Roman/Byzantine and Ottoman empires |
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Constantine |
Emperor of Rome made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire |
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Crusades |
A medieval military expedition, one of a series made by Europeans to recover the Holy Land from the Muslims in the 11th, 12th, and 13 centuries |
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Saladin |
Muslim military and political leader who was sultan led Islamic forces during crusades |
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Umayyad |
A member of a Muslim dynasty that ruled the Islamic world from 660 to 750 ad |
