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Zoroastrianism
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became the religion of the persian empire, founder zoroaster taught sometime after 1000bce main source is the auesta, a compilation of holy works passed down orally . treated humans independent actors capable of choosing between good and eveil.
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Tankh
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Common Jewish term used for the bible. an Acronym derived from hebrew titles of the texts which had three major parts; institution, prophets and writings consists of 24 books
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Brahman
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preformed rituals and comunicated with gods. they were preiests who quided a society in which the proper relationship with forces of nature as represented by dieties. acted as agents of gods to purify new lands.
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confucious
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Master Kong failure as an officila and succeeded as a teacher. 551 to 479 BCE. had 77 core diciplines and believed in education for all clamed to be transmitter of teachings from ancient times.
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Olmecs
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Emerging around 1500BCE lived in mesoamerica name means those who lived in the land of rubber. olmec society was comprised of decentralized villages. members spoke same languages and worshiped same god
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Peloponnesian War
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War fought between 431 ND 404 bce BETWEEN ANTENS AND SPARTA
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stoicism
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widespread philosophical movement indicated by Zeno him and his followers sought to understand the role of people in relation to the cosmos. everything was grounded in nature.334-262BCE
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Asoka
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Emperor of the Mauryan Dynasty from 268-231BCE he was the great conquearor and unifier of india. he is said to have embraced buddhism towards end of his life
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persepois
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Darius capital city in the highlands of fars a ceremonial center and expression of imperial identity as well as importnt andministration huh
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Mandate of heaven
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ideology established by Zhou Dynasts to communicate the moral transfer of power. orignially a part between ppl and their suprenme god, encolced 1st cent BCE of chinese Docterine
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Plato
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Diciple of socrates. 427-347BCE his work are only record we have of socrates teaching. author of formative philosophy works on ethics and politics aswell
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Chavin
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A people who lived in what is now northern peru peru from 1400-200BCE united more by culture and faith rather then by a unified system
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Aristotle
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Philospher 384-322BCE pupil of plato but came to different conclusions about nature and politics. beleived in collecting obsercations about nature and finding patterns to ascertain how things workded
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Mauryan Empire
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321-184BCE Indus valey to northwest south asia. previously ruled by persians. first large scale empire in sw asia and became model for latter inian emires
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Warring States
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Extended from 5th cent BCE to 221 until unified by quin dynast. no real order or government
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Xiongu
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Most powerfula dn intrusive of nomadic ppl orginaly pastorals from easten part of asian steppe modern day mongolia. became most powerful of all pasoras
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Assyrian Ideology
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conquest equals state policy 10th to 7th cent bce seige tactics, used fear as a weapon
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Cyrus
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founder of perrsian empire sicty cent ruler 559=529BCE conqured medes and brought iranians together.
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Assurnasipal II
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established assyra as a empirical power tend day celebration created new palace showed the assyrian strengty
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phoenicians
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known as the canaaites in the bible they were an ethnic group in the levant 7th cent bce under assyrian rule. provided ships and sailers for battles in med major contribution was the alphabed 2nd mill BCE
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Caravan cities
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a set of netherworks at long distance trade locations where group of derchants could assemle during their journeys. several develped into full fledged cities, in the desrts of arabia especially.
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meroe
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Ancient kindom in what is today sudan. it flourished for nearly a thousand years from the fith cent Bce to the fth century
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Darius I
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after death of Cyrus, he gave the persian empire a solidified foundations
521-486BCE
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carthagian cultureCity
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in what is modern day tunsia trading of muchants in the mediteranean. trade all over the worlds
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Mahayana Buddhism
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a school of buddhist theology that believed that the buddha was a diety unlike previous previous groups that had considered him a wise human
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Hellenistic culture
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Process by which the individual of the cuures of the earlier greek city states gave way to unifor culture that stressed the common identity of all who embraced greek ways
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