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Vedas |
"Wisdom" early collections of prayers and hymns that provide information about the info European Aryans who migrated to India around 1500 BCE |
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Theocracy |
A government ruled by God or by church leaders |
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Aristocracy |
A class of persons holding exceptional rank and privileges especially the hereditary nobility |
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Artisan |
a craftsman |
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Civilization |
a cultural group with advanced cities, complex institutions, skilled workers, advanced technology, and a system of record keeping |
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edict of milan |
document that made Christianity one of the religions allowed in the Roman empire |
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Polis |
a Greek city state |
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Indo-Europeans |
A group of semi nomadic people who around 2000 BCE began to migrate from Central Asia to India, Europe, and the Middle East |
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Brahmin |
a member of the social class of priests in Aryan society |
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Quetzalcoatl |
A mesoamerica legend of a god who would someday return to rule his people in peace |
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Huns |
A nomadic group believed to be from Central Asia who invaded into Europe near the end of Rome |
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Democracy |
a political system in which the people rule |
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Monsoon |
a seasonal wind |
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Dynasty |
a series of rulers from the same family |
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hieroglyphics |
a system of picture writing used in Egypt |
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Cuneiform |
a system of writing originating in Mesopotamia in which a wedge shaped stylus was used to press symbols into clay |
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Foraging |
a term for hunting and gathering |
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covenant |
agreement; in the Judeo-Christian heritage, an agreement between God and humankind |
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Slash and burn cultivation |
an agricultural method in which farmers clear fields by cutting and burning trees, then use the ashes as fertilizer |
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Pharaoh |
an Egyptian monarch |
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artifact |
an object made by human hands |
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oracle bones |
animal bones or shells used by Chinese priests used to receive messages from the gods |
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Bodhisattvas |
Buddhist holy men who accumulated spiritual merits during their lifetime; Buddhists prayed to them in order to receive some of their holiness |
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Silk roads |
Caravan routes and sea lanes between china and the Middle East |
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Analects |
Collections of teachings and sayings by Confucius |
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Jati |
Complicated system of Subcastes in Hindu caste system |
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Steppe |
dry grassland |
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Mystery religion |
Hellenistic age religions that promised their faithful followers eternity a state of bliss |
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Yahweh |
God of the monotheistic religion of Judaism that influenced later religions of Christianity and Islam |
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Aristotle |
Greek philosopher who rejected theory of forms and ideas he believed people could depend on their senses and reasons to answer the mysteries of the world |
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YinYang |
ancient Chinese belief of the opposing forces that bring balance to nature and life |
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nirvana |
Buddhist state of perfect peace that is the goal of reincarnation |
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Filial Piety |
Chinese respect for ones parents and other elders |
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Moksha |
in Hindu belief spirits liberation from cycle of reincarnation |
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karma |
Hindu good or evil deeds done by a person |
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Latifundia |
large landholdings in the Roman Empire |
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Alexander the Great |
Macedonian kind who led an army eastward and conquered land from Greece to India He was known as a brilliant military leader and his death marked the beginning of the Hellenistic Era |
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Ziggurat |
Mesopotamian Temples |
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Disciple |
One of the 12 followers of Christ, or any of the professed followers of Christ in his lifetime |
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Zoroastrianism |
Persian religion based on the teaching of 6th century BCE prophet Zarathustra; it's emphasis on the duality of good and evil and on the role of individuals in determining their own fate would influence later religions |
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Patriarchy |
pertaining to a social system in which the father is the head of the family |
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reincarnation |
rebirth; a belief of both Buddhism and Hinduism |
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Matrilineal |
referring to a social system in which descent and inheritance are traced through the mother |
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twelve tables |
the codification of roman law during the republic |
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Mandate of Heaven |
the "will of the gods" that granted a ruler the right to rule |
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geocentric theory |
the belief held by many before the scientific revolution that the earth is the center of the universe |
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polytheism |
the belief in many gods |
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monotheism |
the belief in one God |
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animism |
the belief that spirits inhibit the features of nature |
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Hsiung-nu |
the central Nomadic people who invaded into China in the Ancient World |
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Sati |
the custom among the higher castes of Hinduism of widow throwing herself on the burning funeral pyre of her husband |
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specialization of labor |
the division of labor that aids in the development of skills in a particular type of work |
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Hellenistic age |
the era in which Greek culture blended with Persian and other Eastern influences and spread throughout the former empire of Alexander the Great |
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diaspora |
the exile of an ethnic or racial group from their homeland |
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Torah |
the first 5 books of Jewish scripture |
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Pope |
the head of the Roman Catholic Church |
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Varna |
the Hindu word for caste |
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independent invention |
the idea that ancient civilizations were able to achieve characteristics of civilization without contact with others |
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Neolithic revolution |
the introduction of agriculture, domestication of animals, and a more sedentary Life during the Neolithic age |
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Ten Commandments |
the moral law of the Hebrews |
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Stoicism |
the most popular Hellenistic philosophy it involved strict discipline and an emphasis on helping others |
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Neolithic age |
the New Stone Age that was marked by the discovery and mastery of agriculture |
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climate |
the pattern of temperature and precipitation over a period of time |
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new testament |
the portion of the Christian Bible that contains the Gospels that relate to the life of Jesus; letters from the followers of Jesus to the early Christian churches and the Book of Revelation, a prophetic text |
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Dharma |
the position in the Hindu caste system that was determined by ones birth |
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pastoralism |
the practice of herding |
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Messiah |
the religious term for "any expected deliverer" |
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Pax Romana |
the roman peace; the period of prosperity and stability throughout the Roman Empire on the first 2 centuries CE |
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Untouchables |
the social division in Hindu society that fell in rank below the caste system; occupied by those who carried out undesirable occupations such as undertaking, butchering,and waste collection |
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Agricultural revolution |
the transition from foraging to the cultivation of food occuring about 8000-2000BC - also known as the Neolithic revolution |
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Cultural Diffusion |
the transmission of ideas and products from one culture to another |