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- JUDAISM- Liberty sheet
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- Nineveh
- An ancient city of Assyria on the Tigris River opposite the site of present-day Mosul, Iraq. As capital of the Assyrian Empire, it enjoyed great influence and prosperity, especially under Sennacherib and Ashurbanipal (seventh century b.c.). The city was captured and destroyed by Babylonia and its allies in 612 b.c.
- Vedas
- the four oral epics of the Aryans brought into ancient India.
- dictator
- absolute ruler
- cunneiform
- a. Being a character or characters formed by the arrangement of small wedge-shaped elements and used in ancient Sumerian, Akkadian, Assyrian, Babylonian, and Persian writing.
- Harappa
- locality in the Indus River valley of the Punjab in Pakistan. Archaeological finds dating back to the third millennium b.c. include the remains of a well-laid-out city and indicate a possible link between Indian and Sumerian cultures.
- *Nebuchadnezzar
- (Old Testament) king of Chaldea who captured and destroyed Jerusalem and exiled the Israelites to Babylonia
- hieracrchy
- A series in which each element is graded or ranked: put honesty first in her hierarchy of values.
- ziggurat
- temple tower of the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories.
- Old Stone Age
- Of or relating to the cultural period of the Stone Age beginning with the earliest chipped stone tools, about 750,000 years ago, until the beginning of the Mesolithic Period, about 15,000 years ago.
- HINDUISM- Liberty sheet
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- Confucianism
- teachings of Confucius
- civil service
- branches of public service that are not legislative, judicial, or military and in which employment is usually based on competitive examination
- polis
- the political and social community of citizens in ancient Greece.
- civil law
- A system of law having its origin in Roman law, as opposed to common law or canon law.
- *Siddhartha Gautama
- founder of Buddism; born a prince; left his father's wealth to find the cause of human suffering; also know as Buddha
- historian
- a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it
- ahimsa
- Buddhist and Hindu doctrine expressing belief in the sacredness of all living creatures and urging the avoidance of harm and violence.
- *Socrates
- ancient Athenian philosopher
- polytheistic
- belief in many gods
- city-state
- A sovereign state consisting of an independent city and its surrounding territory.
- prehistory
- The long period of human activity prior to the wirtting of history.
- dynasty
- succession of rulers from the same family or line