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- bureaucracy
- Administration of a government chiefly through bureaus or departments staffed with nonelected officials.
- bedouin
- member of one of the islamic tribes arabia, syria, nubia, and sahara
- dynasty
- A succession of rulers from the same family or line.
- allah
- islamic god
- surah
- soft twilled fabric
- umma
- muslim word for community
- zoroastrianism
- religous thinker, united empire in mesopotamia
- ziggurat
- temple to the chief god or goddess
- messiah
- savior or liberator
- Mesoamerica
- mexico and central america 12,000 to 10,000 years ago
- filial peity
- one of the virtues to be cultivated: a love and respect for one's parents and ancestors.
- stela
- tall stone monument
- jihad
- an effort in god's service
- paul of tarsus
- most notable missionary
- apocalyptic thought
- the book of revelations in the new testament
- meritocracy
- A system in which advancement is based on individual ability or achievement.
- ayllu
- incan village
- sharia
- body of islamic law
- heresy
- an unorthodox thought against the church
- legalism
- rict, literal adherence to the law or to a particular code, as of religion or morality.
- Medina
- city north of mecca, home of the mosque of the prophet
- inti
- sun god
- hijra
- journey of muhammad from mecca to hijra
- yahweh
- the name of god in the jewish religion
- martyr
- someone who dies for their beliefs
- dogma
- an authoritive principle belief
- kaaba
- muslim shrine in mecca
- sumer
- world's first civilization, 3300 BC
- confucious
- Confucius was a teacher, scholar and minor political official whose commentary on Chinese literary classics developed into a pragmatic philosophy for daily life.
- analects
- Selections from or parts of a literary work or group of works
- apostles
- 12 disciples chosen by jesus of nazareth