World History Chapter 5

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Frumentius
missionary given tribute for brining Christianity to the Aksum empire
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Chandragupta Maurya
founded the Maurya empire
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Asoka
grandson of Maurya; extended the Maurya empire to Southern India; built the stupas
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Kalidasa
known as the Shakespeare of India
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Qin Shi Huang
founder of the Qin dynasty; standardize Chinese coinage and other staples
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Wu Ti
drove back the Huns out of China
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sub-Saharan Africa
the part of Africa south of the Sahara
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Bantu migration
migration of a people group who used a family of languages that became known as the Bantu language
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Kush
province of Egypt that eventually won independence from Egypt
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Aksum
kingdom that defeated the Kushites around AD 330; embraced a form of Christianity
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Nok culture
earliest evidence for civilization in West Africa
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Djenné-Djeno
perhaps the oldest city in West Africa
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polygamy
marriage of a husband to more than one wife
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Gupta Empire
fourth-century Indian empire under which India had perhaps its greatest era of prosperity and achievement
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Pax Sinica
“Chinese Peace” established by the Han Dynasty