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Caste system

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Rigid social system characteristic of India, based upon birth, determining the occupation and class of people

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Silk Road

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Trade routes across China that connected Asia and Europe

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Mandate of Heaven

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The command to rule given by God to the Chinese Emperor

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Commercial Revolution

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Period after the Renaissance when exploration and colonization grew due to increased trade and agricultural production

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Machiavelli

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Author of The Prince, suggested a ruler may ignore what is morally right to maintain power

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Magna Carta

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A document signed in 13th century England limiting the power of the king and guaranteeing certain rights to the people

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Macchu Picchu

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Highly developed Incan city

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Laissez-faire

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Practice of little or no government intervention in economic matters

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Proletariat

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What Marx referred to as the "working class", the "have-nots"

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Karl Marx

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German philosopher who published The Communist Manifesto

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Quran (Koran)

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Holy book, of Islam

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Theodor Herzl

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Helped launch the modern form of Zionism

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Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

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Led democratic reforms in Turkey

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Buddhism

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Ancient religion found in eastern asia, based on the Four Noble Truths

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Code of Hammurabi

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Oldest known legal system of ancient Babylonian laws and customs

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Confucianism

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A Chinese philosophy characterized by filial piety

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Ethnocentrism

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A belief that one's own culture and ethnic group are superior to another's

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Han Dynasty

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The high point of ancient China's power, culture and prosperity, in which art, literature and science flourished

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Indus River

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River in western India where inhabitants rely upon its overflow for deposits of rich, fertile soil

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Ganges

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Sacred river in India

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Pax Romana

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Period of over 200 years during which the Roman military enforced peace throughout the Mediterranean world

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Savanna

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Area of land with tall grasses and few trees

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Plato

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Ancient Greek philosopher, author of The Republic

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Twelve Tables

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Oldest Roman code of laws

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Sparta

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An ancient Greek city-state that transformed its society into an armed camp, emphasizing the art of the military and the soldier.

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Byzantine Empire

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Eastern portion of the divided Roman Empire, preserved Greco-Roman culture

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Caliph

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An Islamic leader

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Justinian Code

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An attempt by Byzantine emperor Justinian to organize all Roman laws

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Urban II

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Pope who called the Crusades to recover the Holy Land from Muslims

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Secular

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Pertaining to worldly rather than spiritual matters

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Saladin

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Respected Muslim leader who united the Muslim world, controlling Jerusalem during one of the Crusades

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Pagoda

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Chinese temple with a roof that curves upwards.

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Martin Luther

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A dissident monk who challenged the practices of the Roman Catholic Church with his 95 Theses

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Humanism

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The intellectual and cultural movement that focused on worldly subjects rather than religious ones.

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Inquisition

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A tribunal in the medieval Roamn Catholic Church, often unjust, directed at surpressing heresy.

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Tokugawa Shogunate

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Japanese central government (1600-1900) that brought stability to the area; hostile to foreigners.

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Mughals

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Empire that reigned in India in the early 16th century, featuring many advances, including the building of the Taj Mahal

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Mansa Musa

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Famous ruler of the Mali Empire in west Africa who helped make the city of Timbuktu a center for Islamic trade, wealth and education

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Michelangelo

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Italian Renaissance genius whose work includes the painting of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican

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Renaissance

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The European period of rebirth and renewal of interest in learning, the arts and culture, following the Middle Ages.

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Shintoism

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A religion found in Japan that emphasizes the worship of nature, stressing man's duty to live in harmony with nature.

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Terrace Farming

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Turning hillsides into steps on hills to create flat surfaces for farming.

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Henry VIII

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English king who was at first a strong Catholic, but who broke away from the Roman Catholic Church over a dispute about his divorce