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Wild Card
100
It was the distancing on one's desires of the world to achieve this that would bring them a release from the cycle of reincarnation. The foundation of this was founded in the Vedic religion.
What is moksha
100
The economic activity of agriculture and land ownership was the basis of wealth to the Roman state. Small families were able to acquire large portion of lands with the head of these families becoming members of this Senate.
What is the Council of Elders
100
The ruler was lined with this; he was chosen to rule in alignment with this causing him to be placed in as emperor supreme in the state. What the ruler ruled according to claimed it was in harmony with heaven and earth and required divinity in his word of law.
What is the Mandate of Heaven
100
It was a road that linked China to Mesopotamia and further connected into the Mediterranean lands. This trade route not only allowed for an exchange of goods but of ideas and cultures as well.
What is the silk road
100
It was the era from 323-30BCE when Alexander conquered the lands in northeastern Africa and western Asia that came under Greek rule having a strong influence of Greek culture.
What is the Hellenistic Age
200
The conflict between the Dasas and Aryas later formed a further separation of society establishing the division of classes including Brahmin, Kshatriya, Vaishya, and Shudra.
What are the 4 Varnas?
200
While Italian peasants and farmers were away on military services, investors took possession of their farms with the wealth ending up in the hands of the upper classes. These Italian peasants went from being the backbone of Rome but were replaced by this.
What is latifundia
200
The Chinese used this type of engineering by hammering ores to produce steel and used the technique of liquefying iron and pouring it into molds. It would further be used as sturdy tools or weapons.
What is metallurgy
200
It was a trade network that stretched across the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea. The trade took place distinctly in the South China Sea, India to Southeast Asian islands, and India to the Persian Gulf.
What is the Indian Ocean Maritime System
200
They were the first ones built in 500 BCE connecting all places in this area and brought quicker and easier transportation.
What are the Roman roads
300
The Gupta Empire was identified by this considering their constant rituals, dramatic ceremonies, exciting cultural events, and their potent advertisements. In these kinds of places, centers also collected luxury goods and profits from the trading which is then redistributed through other exchanges.
What is a theater state
300
Inequalities of power in the Roman society formed between the elite, the patricians, an the majority of the population, plebeians. Paterfamilias was the oldest living male who exercised absolute authority over family members. This was the complex ties of obligations bounding individuals and families together.
What is the patron/client relationship
300
The Qin and Han emperors allied themselves with these officials in the wealth class below the aristocrats. They were helpful with their responsive reforms they brought to the government and were guided by a code of conduct of the philosophy of Confucianism.
What is the gentry
300
It was an empire that lasted from 224-600 CE holding the rivalry between Rome and the Parthians. They established their Zoroastrian faith which marked a new emergence of religion as an instrument of politics for the empire.
What is the Sasanid Empire
300
Christianity was spreading in Asia and Africa and the Christian emperors of Constantinople sent missionaries along the Red Sea trade routes to seek converts in this area.
What is Ethiopia
400
They were the rise of important states in central India. They constantly found themselves in conflict with one another but persisted in one form.
What are the Tamil kingdoms
400
It was the period from 235 to 284 CE when there was political, military, and economic disunity which almost destroyed the Roman Empire. One of the main causes of this era was the constant changing of rulers who were eventually overthrown by rival or their own troops.
What is the third-century crisis
400
It was China's most important export that gave the Chinese a monopoly on the manufacture of it. It was carried on journeys to the Central Asian oases which allowed the Chinese to not only trade with these people but raise the price of this product. This gave the people a profit.
What is silk
400
They were trade routes in the Sahara linking two trading systems. It linked one in the south and another in the north. The northern route developed slowly while the southern route brought a vast amount of trading with products like kola nuts or palm oil.
What is the trans-Saharan caravan routes
400
These migrations in sub-Saharan Africa contrasted with the contacts along the trade routes and the cultural characteristics that were further spread. They maintained their social structure and rituals with their migrations.
What are the Bantu migrations
500
What are the two centralized empires of the Ganges Plain which monopolized metals and weapons while building strong standing armies and bringing political reforms that manifested complex administrative bureaucracies.
What is the Gupta and Mauryan Empire
500
These two rulers came into power with one halting inflation and causing for men in their working professions to be frozen in it and with the government implanting regulations of prices. This caused the black market. The ruler who followed him reunited the entire empire with him changing the capital to Constantinople.
Who is Diocletian and Constantine
500
It was the last few centuries of the Zhou rule where there was rivalry and belligerence among a group of small states with different languages and cultures.
What is the Warring States Period
500
While trading in the Sahara, the north and the south exchanged for the necessary goods for their homeland. They received this from the farming people of this land. It is known as "the coast" being the southern borderlands of the Sahara. The people in this land played an important role in trade.
What is Sahel
500
It became to be one of the most popular and widespread religion in the world without having a single ethnic or kinship group to spread it. These teachings of this religion were promoted by emperors and spread by missionaries or monks.
What is Buddhism
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