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Anthropology
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Study of human life and culture
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Archaeology
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study of past societies through an analysis of what people left behind.
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Hatshepsut
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first women emperor of Egypt
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Visiers
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in charge of government bureaucracy
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Scribes
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Held most important position in sumerian society
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Hammurabi
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leader of Babylonians
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Assyrians
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overran the kingdom of Isreal
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Chaldeans
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Conquered kingdom of Judah, and completely destroyed Jerusalem.
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Menes
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united upper and lower Egypt into a single kingdom
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Yahweh
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Jewish God
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Pyramids
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One of the greatest achievements of Egyptian civilization
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Vedas
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Collection of hymns and religious ceremonies that were passed down orally through centuries.
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Suttee
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required a wfie to throw herself on her dead husband flaming funeral pyre.
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Asoka
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generally considered to be greatest ruler in the history of India
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Kalidasa
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one of Ancient India most famous authors
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Legalism
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emphasized importance of strictlaws and harsh punishments
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Confucianism
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stressed importance of moral behavior in 5 basic relationships
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Daoism
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emphasized importance of living in harmony.
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Brahman
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charge of the religious ceremonies
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Vaisyas
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peasants and people who worked at other forms of manual labor
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Hanfeizi
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opposed confucious ideas
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Solon
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gave aristocrats land to the peasants in order to gain the favor of the poor
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Pisistratus
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invaded Greece from the north
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Ephors
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responsible for the education of youth and the conduct of all citizens
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Tyrants
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rulers who seized power by force from aristocrats
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Herodotus
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author of history of the Persian Wars
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Delian League
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athenian defense alliance against Persians.
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Thucydides
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examined cause and course of the Peloponnesian War
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Socrates
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wanted people to think for themselves
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Sophocles
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Most famous play was Oedipus
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Plato
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wrote socrates philophies in "the republic"
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Eratosthenes
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taught essence of the universe could be found in music and numbers
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Archimedes
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established value of Pi.
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Hannibal
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greatest of the Carthaginian generals
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Battle of Cannae
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Hannebal crossed the Alps and defeated Romans
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Battle of Zama
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where Romans defeated Hannebal forces and the war ended
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Patricaians
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GREAT landowners
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Plebians
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LESS WEALTHY landowners
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Praetors
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supervised treasury
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Officials
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in charge of civil law
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Consul
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a select group of 300 patricians who served for life
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Latifundia
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Masterpiece was the History of Rome
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Horace
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large land estates
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Livy
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greatest work - "Aenid"
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Virgil
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direct attacks
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Constantine
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Moved capital of eastern empire to Byzantium
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Diocletian
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divided empire into 4 units with each its own ruler
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Battle of Actium
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where octavian defeated Antony
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Makkah
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Place where Muhammad was born
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Madinah
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Place where Muhammad moved to
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Haji
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all muslims were encouraged to make pilgrimage to Makkah
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Khadijia
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Muhammads rich wife who was alos a widow
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Hijrah
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the journey Muhammad and his followers to Madinah
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Minaret
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Most famous section of the Samarrag mosque
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Omar Khayyam
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wrote some stories in "Arabian Nights"
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Mamluks
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Mongols attempt to seize Egypt falled because of this group
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Saladin
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new muslim ruler
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Kaaba
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house of worship for Islamic people
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Hussein
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led the revolt in Iraq
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Yi Song-gye
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a military commander
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Murasaski Shikibu
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author who wrote "the tale of genji"
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Theravada
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a group that believed that they were following the original teachings of Buddha
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Mahayana
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stressed nirvana could be achieved through devotion to Buddah
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Askikaga
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group of powerful families
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Fugiwara
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clan whose power fell into their hands
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Li Bo
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free spirit whose writings often centered around nature
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Duo Fu
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work reflected a concern with social injustice
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Zhu Yuanzhang
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put together army and ended mongols
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Temujin
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gradually unified the mongols
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Sui Yanggdi
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2nd emperor of Sui Dynasty and completed the Grand Canal
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Uighurs
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northern tribal group of Turkic-speaking people
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Bushido
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start warrior code for the samurai
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Shinto
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state religion of Japan
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Dandin
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one of the greatest masters of Sanskirt prose
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Pope Urban II
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challenged Christians to thake up their weapsons and join the holy war
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King John
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forced to sign the Magna Carta
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Otto I
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best known Saxon King of Germany
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Clovis
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established the Frankish Kingdom
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Charlemagne
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became the Frankish King
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Abbot
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what each monaster was ruled by
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Bishop
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a group of parishes
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Wergild
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amount paid by a wrongdoer to the family of the person they injured/killed
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Paraliment
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composed of 2 knights, 2 people and all nobles/bishops throughout England
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Ordeal
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one means of determining guilt in Germanic law
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Counts
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solved local problems
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Abbesses
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head of convents
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Fief
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grant of land made to vassal
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Chivalry
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code of ethics that knights had to uphold
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Alexander Nevsky
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defeated German invading army in Russia in 1242
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Vassal
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Man who served a lord in military capacity
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