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64 Cards in this Set
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Neolithic Revolution |
development of agriculture |
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cunieform |
writing based on wedge-like characters |
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Sumerians |
developed the 1st case of a human alphabet |
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ziggurats |
massive towers |
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babylonians |
helped bring civ to the middle east |
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hammurabi |
introduced 1st code of law |
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Phoenicians |
devised simple alphabet w/ 22 letters |
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Qin |
dynasty controlled by Shi Huangdi--a tyrant |
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Han |
consolidation of Chinese civilization, 3rd dynasty of classical China |
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dao |
a way to relate harmony |
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zhou |
beset by a decline in the political infrastructure |
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aryans |
indo-european migrants--hunting/herding people originally from central asia |
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upanishads |
epic poems with a more mystical religious flavor |
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untouchables |
NOT good--confined to a few "dirty jobs" |
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Chandragupta Maurya |
young soldier that seized power along the ganges river, FIRST OF THE MAURYAN dynasty |
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dharma |
law of moral consequences |
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Ashoka |
chandragupta's grandson |
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stupas |
special shrines to the buddha |
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cyrus the great |
established a massive persian empire across the middle east |
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peloponnesian wars |
between athens and sparta |
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punic wars |
rome vs. phoenician city carthage |
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cicero |
writer and senator |
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shintoism |
japan's religion |
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sui |
followed by tang |
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tang |
sponsored one of the most glorious periods in chinese history |
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rajput |
what regional princes were collectively called |
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byzantine empire |
product of late imperial rome |
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justinian |
byzantine ruler |
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mahayana |
east asian form of buddhism |
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bedouin |
nomadic |
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shayks |
leaders of tribes and clans |
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umma |
community of the faithful |
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zakat |
a tax for charity |
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ridda wars |
brought arabic tribes back to the "Islamic fold" |
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jihads |
holy wars |
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shi'a |
supporters of ali |
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sunnis |
backed umayyads |
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mawali |
muslim converts |
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jiyza |
head tax |
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dhimmi |
people of the book |
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seljuk turks |
a group of nomadic |
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bhaktic cults |
membership open to all |
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shrivijaya |
trading empire, collapsed |
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griots |
professional oral historians |
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sharia |
islamic law |
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cyril and methodius |
missionaries |
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yaroslav |
last of the great kievan princes |
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clovis |
a warrior chieftain |
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scholasticism |
the dominant medieval philosophical approach |
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hanseatic league |
cities that grouped together to encourage trade |
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guilds |
grouped people in the same business or trade in a single city |
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pochteca |
special merchant class
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mita |
labor turns |
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tambos |
way stations |
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quipu |
knotted strings |
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hangzhou |
capital of the song rulers |
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jinshis |
those who passed the most difficult exams on chinese literature |
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li bo |
most famous poet of the tang song era |
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bakufu |
tent |
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sinification |
extensive adoption of a culture |
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white lotus society |
a religious sect |
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renaissance |
rebirth |
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vasco de gama |
first european to reach india by the sea |
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henry the navigator |
a student of astronomy, prince of portugal |