civilization/ era and terms

sumer

-irrigation

-cuneiform

-polytheism

aztec

-ziggurats

-human sacrifice

-mesoamerica

yellow river

-loesses

-oracle bones

-yin and yang

athens greece

-columns

-democracy

-polytheism

han

-civil service

-silk road to rome

-great wall

gupta

-concept of zero

-hinduism

-ganges

mali

-trans - Saharan trade

-timbuktu

- mansa musa

maurya

-buddhism

-chandragupta

-wheel of law

egypt

-pyramids

-hieroglyphics

-nile

abbasids

-caliphate

-algebra

-geometric art

sub-saharan africa

-animism

-masks

-kente cloth

byzantine

-hippodrome

-greek fire

-hagia sophia

-justinians code

mongols

-stirrups

-yurts

-composite bows

-khans

inca

-andes mountains

-quipu

-machi picchu

east africa

-great rift

-swahili

-ivory

-dhows

tang

-tributary states

-confucianism

-grand canal

mughals

-akbar

-taj mahal

-sikhism

ming

-neo confucianism

-zheng he

-forbidden city

spanish americas

-peninsulares

-encomienda

-plantations

indus

-monsoons

-well planned cities

-indecipherable language

roman republic

-12 tables patricians v plebeians

-checks and balances

japan

-shinto

-samurai

-archipelago

-homogeneous culture

qin dynasty

-shi huangdi

-legalism

-terra cotta warriors

ottoman empire

-millets

-janissaries

-kanun

-suleiman

renaissance

-humanism

-medici

-petrarch

roman empire

-pax mongolica

-aqueducts

-urbanization

dark ages

-feudalism

-manorialism

-chivalry

reformation

-indulgences

-pope leo

-predestination

-jesuits

scientific rev

-copernicus

-galileo

-newton

-bacon

absolutism

-divine right

-peter/louis

-elizabeth

enlightenment

-natural rights

-laissez-faire

-social contract

-freedom of expression

paleolithic

-nomads

-cavemen

-migration

exploration

-fall of constantinople

-reconquista

-mercatilism

neolithic rev

-subsistence farming

-villages

-sedentary lifestyle

enlightened despots

-catherine

-joseph

-freedom of the press