concepts

Prehistory Stone Ages Nomad Foraging societies Pastoral societies Hunter-gatherer Neolithic Age Agricultural Revolution Domestication Civilization Social stratification Social mobility Bronze Age River valley civilization Mesopotamia Tigris and Euphrates City-state Fertile Crescent Sumer Ur Cuneiform Epic of Gilgamesh Ziggurat Polytheism Akkadians Empire Code of Hammurabi Babylonia Hittities Iron Age Assyrians Chaldeans Nebuchadnezzar Indo-Europeans Persian Empire Royal Road Satrap/satrapies Zoroastrinism Lydians Phoenicians Alphabet Thalassocracy Hebrews Judaism Tanakh Torah Monotheism Israelites Jerusalem Egypt Nile River Old, Middle, New Kingdoms Pharaoh Vizier Regent Hieroglyphs Divine right Hyksos Theocracy Mediterranean Sea Indus River Ganges River Khyber Pass Hindu Kush Mountains Himalayas Monsoons Harappa Mohenjo-Daro Aryans Vedas Upanishads Sanskrit Sati Caste system Brahmans Kshatriyas Vaisyas Sudras Dharma Karma Hinduism Buddhism Nirvana Four Noble Truths Eightfold Path Theravada Mahayana Huang He/Yellow River Yangtze River Chinese pictographs Shang Dynasty Patriarchal Zhou Dynasty Mandate of Heaven Bureaucracy Olmec Chavin Mauryan Empire Rock and Pillar Edicts “Golden Age” Arabic numerals Qin Dynasty Legalism Censorate Great Wall of China Han Dynasty Confucianism Junzi Ren Li Xiao/filial piety Dao Daoism Wuwei Rudder Lateen sail Greece Minoans Mycenaeans Polis Acropolis Agora Athens Sparta Tyrant/tyranny Democracy Direct democracy Ostracism Delian League Philosophy Socratic method Plato’s Republic Doric Ionic Corinthian Greco-Persian Wars Hellespont Peloponnesian War Macedonian Empire Hellenism Alexandria Antigonid Seleucid Ptolemaic Rome Roman Republic Republic Patricians Plebians Assembly Senate Twelve Tables Punic Wars Carthage First Triumvirate Dictator Second Triumvirate Imperator Roman Empire Pax Romana Paterfamilias Insulae Aqueducts Paganism Christianity New Testament Clergy Laity Eastern Roman Empire Western Roman Empire Edict of Milan Huns Inflation Constantinople Germanic people Visigoths Ostrogoths Vandals Celts Classical civilization Silk Road Islam Quran/Koran Five Pillars Arabia Shar’ia Mecca Medina Hijra Hajj Sunni Shiite Mosque Minaret Caliph Caliphate Umayyad Caliphate Abbasid Caliphate Fatimid Caliphate Baghdad Byzantine Empire Justinian Code/Body of Civil Law Great Schism Catholicism Orthodox Christianity Patriarch of Constantinople Pope/papacy Cyrillic alphabet Franks Battle of Tours Carolingian Dynasty Holy Roman Empire Treaty of Verdun Vikings Magyars Feudalism Vassals/vassalage Fiefs Manorial system Manors Three-field system Chivalry Primogeniture Serfs/serfdom Burghers Hanseatic League Crusades Heresy Scholasticism Inquisition Guilds Battle of Hastings Magna Carta Parliament House of Lords House of Commons Hundred Years’ War Reconquest Spanish Inquisition Kievan Kingdom Czar Boyars Scholar-gentry Dowry Tibet Tang Dynasty Neoconfucianism Song Dynasty Foot binding Zen Buddhism Japan Shinto Yamato clan Taika Reforms Fujiwara clan Shogun/shogunate Daimyo Kamakura Shogunate Samurai Bushido Delhi Sultanate Timur Lang’s Empire Mongol Empire khanate Yuan Empire Golden Horde Il-Khanate Matrilineal Lineage groups Diviner Griot Nubia Kush Axum Trans-Saharan routes Sahel/Sahelian Ghana Mali Empire Timbuktu Songhai Empire Bantu Subsistence farming Stateless societies Benin Kongo Mayas Tikal Chichen Itza Aztec Empire Tenochtitlan Incan Empire Quipu Cuzco Machu Pichu Indian Ocean Maritime system East Africa Southwest Asia South Asia Southeast Asia Bubonic Plague Black Death Classics Humanism Christian Humanism The Prince Renaissance Printing press Protestant Reformation 95 Theses Indulgences Calvinism Anglican Church/Church of England Catholic Reformation/Counter-Reformation Council of Trent Jesuits Geocentric theory Heliocentric theory Scientific method Inductive reasoning Deductive reasoning Deism Enlightenment Philosophes The Leviathan Two Treaties On Government Natural law Natural rights Social contract Separation of powers Checks and balances Enlightened monarchs Treaty of Tordesillas Line of Demarcation Spanish Caste System Peninsulares Criollos/creoles Mestizos Mulattos Encomienda Columbian Exchange Triangular Trade Middle Passage Joint-stock company Charter Mercantilism Favorable balance of trade Habsburgs Bourbons Tudors and Stuarts Spanish Armada English Commonwealth Glorious Revolution English Bill of Rights Huguenots Edict of Nantes Absolutism Palace of Versailles War of Spanish Succession Peace of Augsburg Thirty Years’ War Peace of Westphalia Seljuk Turks Ottoman Turks Ottoman Empire Sultan Vizier Harems Janissaries Moscow Cossacks Westernization Mughal Empire Safavid Empire Shah Ming Dynasty Qing Dynasty Manchus/Jurchens Tokugawa Shogunate Edo period National Seclusion Policy Kabuki theater Haiku Industrial Revolution Enclosure Domestic system Flying shuttle Spinning jenny Cotton gin Steam engine Steamboat/ship Locomotive Telegraph Telephone Internal combustion engine Interchangeable parts Assembly line Corporation Evolution Social Darwinism Wealth of Nations Laissez-faire Capitalism Socialism Communism Labor unions Imperialism White Man’s Burden Indian National Congress Opium War Treaty of Nanking Unequal treaties Extraterritoriality Spheres of influence White Lotus Rebellions Taiping Rebellion Treaty of Shimonoseki Open Door Policy Boxers Boxer Rebellion Treaty of Kanagawa Meiji Restoration Russo-Japanese War Boers Boer War Rhodesia African National Congress Suez Canal French and Indian War Seven Years’ War Sugar Act Stamp Act Common Sense American Revolution Battle of Saratoga Declaration of Independence United States Constitution Estates General First Estate Second Estate Third Estate Bourgeosie Taille National Assembly French Revolution Declaration of the Rights of Man National Convention Guillotine Committee of Public Safety Jacobins Directory Napoleonic Codes Confederation of the Rhine Waterloo Congress of Vienna Haitian Revolution Treaty of Cordoba Revolutions of 1848 Italian unification Prussia Franco-Prussian War German unification Emancipation Edict Russification Duma Monroe Doctrine Roosevelt Corollary Panama Canal Spanish-American War Triple Alliance Triple Entente Nationalism Isolationism Fourteen Points League of Nations Paris Peace Conference Treaty of Versailles Russian Revolution Soviets Bolsheviks Treaty of Brest-Litovsk Soviet Union New Economic Policy Five Year Plans Collectivization Fascism Weimar Republic Nazi/Nazism Third Reich Rhineland Munich Conference Appeasement Nazi-Soviet Pact Sino-Japanese War Anti-Comintern Pact Blitzkrieg Battle of Britain Axis Powers Allies Pearl Harbor D-Day/Normandy Hiroshima/Nagasaki Holocaust Marshall Plan United Nations Cold War Truman Doctrine Containment NATO Warsaw Pact Iron Curtain Chinese Revolution 1911 Three Principles of the People People’s Republic of China Great Leap Forward Cultural Revolution Vietminh/Vietcong Platt Amendment Cuban Revolution Bay of Pigs Invasion Cuban Missile Crisis Solidarity Glasnost Perestroika Ethnic cleansing Passive resistance Rwanda Apartheid African National Congress Zionism/Zionists Balfour Declaration Six Day War Camp David Accords West Bank Gaza Strip Golan Heights PLO Iranian Revolution WTO IMF OPEC Taliban Al Queda World Trade Center Media
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