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Confucianism

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Believes that education can make us better people

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Analects

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A part of Confucianism

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Daoism

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(Taoism) *Dao/Tao- "The Way" : Nature -Daodejing

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Dao de Jing

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Work of philosophy

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Legalism

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Chinese philosophy

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Han Fei Tzu

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Han Fei, also known as Han Fei Zi, was an influential political philosopher of the Warring States period "Chinese Legalist" school. He synthesized the methods of his predecessors, as described in his eponymous work, the Han Feizi.

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Silk Road

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ancient network of trade routes that for centuries were central to cultural interaction through regions of the Asian continent

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Bering Strait

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The Bering Strait is a strait connecting the Pacific and Arctic oceans between Russia and the United States.

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Maya

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The Maya civilization was a Mesoamerican civilization developed by the Maya peoples, and noted for its hieroglyphic script—the only known fully developed writing system of the pre-Columbian Americas—as well as for its art, architecture, mathematics, calendar, and astronomical system.

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Iroquois Confederacy

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an association of six linguistically related tribes in the northeastern woodlands

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Mesoamerican Ball Game

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the Mesoamerican ballgame was a sport with ritual associations played since 1,400 BC by the pre-Columbian peoples of Ancient Mesoamerica.

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Cyrus I (The Great)

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Founder of the Persian empire

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Darius I (The Great)

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Darius I (Old Persian Dârayavauš): king of ancient Persia, whose reign lasted from 522 to 486. He seized power after killing king Gaumâta, fought a civil war (described in the Behistun inscription), and was finally able to refound the Achaemenid empire, which had been very loosely organized until then.

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Satrap

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a provincial governor in the ancient Persian empire.

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The Cyrus Cylinder

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ancient clay cylinder, now broken into several fragments, on which is written a declaration in Akkadian cuneiform script in the name of Persia's Achaemenid king Cyrus the Great.

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Polis

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a city state in ancient Greece, especially as considered in its ideal form for philosophical purposes.

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Homer

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Author of the Iliad and Odyssey

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Iliad

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The Iliad is an ancient Greek epic poem in dactylic hexameter, traditionally attributed to Homer. Set during the Trojan War

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Athens

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A city in Greece

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Colonies

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a territory under the immediate political control of a state, distinct from the home territory of the sovereign.

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Sparta

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Sparta was a prominent city-state in ancient Greece. In antiquity the city-state was known as Lacedaemon, while the name Sparta referred to its main settlement on the banks of the Eurotas River in Laconia, in south-eastern Peloponnese.

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Greek Drama

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Greek tragedy was a popular and influential form of drama performed in theatres across ancient Greece from the late 6th century BCE.

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Plato

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Plato was a philosopher in Classical Greece and the founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world.

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Polytheism

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the belief in or worship of more than one god.

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Cuneiform Writing

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Cuneiform is a system of writing first developed by the ancient Sumerians of Mesopotamia c. 3500-3000 BCE. It is considered the most significant among the many cultural contributions of the Sumerians and the greatest among those of the Sumerian city of Uruk which advanced the writing of cuneiform c. 3200 BCE.

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Sargon of Akkad

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Sargon of Akkad was the first ruler of the Semitic-speaking Akkadian Empire, known for his conquests of the Sumerian city-states in the 24th to 23rd centuries BC.

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Neolithic Period

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. Of or relating to the cultural period of the Stone Age beginning around 10,000 BC in the Middle East and later elsewhere, characterized by the development of agriculture and the making of polished stone implements. ... Also called New Stone Age.

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Paleolithic Period

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earliest period of human development and the longest phase of mankind's history.

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Aqueduct

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an artificial channel for conveying water, typically in the form of a bridge supported by tall columns across a valley.

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Greco-Roman Culture

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The Greco-Roman world, Greco-Roman culture, or the term Greco-Roman (/??r?ko??ro?m?n/ or /??r?k??ro?m?n/; spelled Graeco-Roman in the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth), when used as an adjective, as understood by modern scholars and writers, refers to those geographical regions and countries that culturally

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Pax Romana

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the peace that existed between nationalities within the Roman Empire.

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Octabiah/ Ceasar Augustus

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Augustus was the founder of the Roman Empire and its first Emperor, ruling from 27 BC until his death in AD 14. He was born Gaius Octavius into an old and wealthy equestrian branch of the plebeian Octavii family.

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Roman Empire

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The Roman Empire was the post-Roman Republic period of the ancient Roman civilization, characterized by government headed by emperors and large territorial holdings around the Mediterranean Sea in Europe, Africa and Asia.

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Law of Twelve Tables

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Laws of the Twelve Tables, c.450 B.C. The earliest attempt by the Romans to create a code of law was the Laws of the Twelve Tables. A commission of ten men (Decemviri) was appointed (c. 455 B.C.) to draw up a code of law binding on both patrician and plebeian and which consuls would have to enforce.

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Plebeian

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of or belonging to the commoners of ancient Rome.

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Patrician

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an aristocrat or nobleman.

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Roman Republic

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The Roman Republic was the period of ancient Roman civilization beginning with the overthrow of the Roman Kingdom, traditionally dated to 509 BC, and ending in 27 BC with the establishment of the Roman Empire.

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Hellenistic Culture

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Hellenization, or Hellenism, refers to the spread of Greek culture that had begun after the conquest of Alexander the Great in the fourth century, B.C.E. One must think of the development of the eastern Mediterranean, really, in two major phases.

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Alexander the Great

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Alexander III of Macedon, commonly known as Alexander the Great, was a king of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon and a member of the Argead dynasty.

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Aristotle

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Aristotle was a Greek philosopher and scientist born in the city of Stagira, Chalkidice, on the northern periphery of Classical Greece. His father, Nicomachus, died when Aristotle was a child, whereafter Proxenus of Atarneus became his guardian.

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Ziggurats

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Ziggurats were a form of temple common to the Sumerians, Babylonians and Assyrians of ancient Mesopotamia.The earliest examples of the ziggurat date from the end of the third millennium BCE and the latest date from the 6th century BCE.

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Nile River

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The Nile is a major north-flowing river in northeastern Africa, generally regarded as the longest river in the world but in 2007 this title was given to the Amazon river. It is 6,853 km long.

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Hieroglyphics

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Egyptian hieroglyphs were a formal writing system used by the ancient Egyptians that combined logographic and alphabetic elements. Egyptians used cursive hieroglyphs for religious literature on papyrus and wood.

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Egyptian Pyramids

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The Egyptian pyramids are ancient pyramid-shaped masonry structures located in Egypt. As of November 2008, sources cite either 118 or 138 as the number of identified Egyptian pyramids

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Hammurabi's Code

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The Code of Hammurabi is a well-preserved Babylonian law code of ancient Mesopotamia, dating back to about 1754 BC. It is one of the oldest deciphered writings of significant length in the world.

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Caste System

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The caste system in India is a system of social stratification which has pre-modern origins, was transformed by the British Raj, and is today the basis of educational and job reservations in India

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Reincarnation

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Reincarnation is the philosophical or religious concept that an aspect of a living being starts a new life in a different physical body or form after each biological death. It is also called rebirth or transmigration, and is a part of the Sa?s?ra doctrine of cyclic existence.

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Dharma

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the teaching or religion of the Buddha

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Dynasty

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a family of rulers who rule over a country for a long period of time; also : the period of time when a particular dynasty is in power. : a family, team, etc., that is very powerful or successful for a long period of time.

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Pictographic writing

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Pictography is a form of writing which uses representational, pictorial drawings, similarly to cuneiform and, to some extent, hieroglyphic writing, which also uses drawings as phonetic letters or determinative rhymes.

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Mandate of Heaven

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The Mandate of Heaven (Chinese: ??; pinyin: ti?nmìng; literally: "heaven decree") is an ancient Chinese belief/theory and philosophical idea that ti?n (heaven) granted emperors the right to rule based on their ability to govern well, appropriately and fairly.

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Dynastic Cycle

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Dynastic cycle is an important political theory in Chinese history. According to this theory, everydynasty goes through a culture cycle. 1. A new ruler unites China, founds a new dynasty, and gains the Mandate of Heaven.

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Scholar- Bureaucrat

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Scholar-officials, also known as Scholar-gentlemen, Scholar-bureaucrats or Scholar-gentry (Chinese: ???; pinyin: shì dàf?) were civil servants appointed by the emperor of China to perform day-to-day governance from the Han dynasty to the end of the Qing dynasty in 1912, China's last imperial dynasty.

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