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Beringia - ANS A landmass that once connected North America and Asia. Most
historians believe that by this mass the new people began populating around 12,000
years ago.
Hammurabi's Code - ANS It is not the earliest set of laws, but one of the most
influential. Through this code we are taught the rule of vengeance with the famous
phrase, "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth." The code was a list of rules to be
obeyed along with punishments to be heard if they were not.
The Nile River - ANS A river in Egypt that flows south to north. Because of flooding the
area around the river had fertile soil, making it a good place for agriculture and the
placement of early civilizations.
King Ashoka - ANS He was the grandson of Chandragupta Maurya and helped to
develop the Mauryan Empire. When he was king, warfare came to an end. Historians
know far more about him because he left behind records telling about his ideas and
governing. He followed buddhism and decided that he would rule under Dharma. He
would now rule by virtue and not force.
Confucius - ANS Lived prior to the warring-states period, and what we know about him
is left behind in a series of analects, which were conversations held with his students.
These teachings were left behind after his death and developed into Confucianism.
They taught of the noble person, filial piety, humaness, etiquette, Heaven, and
government by men of virtue. Values placed on character are key to society and order.
Homo habilis - ANS The first members of our genus. The first hominid to make stone
tools.
Cuneiform - ANS A written script of wedge shaped marks, around 3200 BCE
King David of Israel - ANS Israel's greatest ruler or a model king. He established the
United Kingdom of Israel, with its capital at Jerusalem. Expanded the borders of a newly
unified Israel, contributed to the Book of Psalms, and, in Christian tradition, for being a
forbear of Jesus. He was a "warrior king,"
India - ANS First invented by the ancient Greeks to refer to people living on lands lying
beyond the Indus River
Indo-Gangetic Plain - ANS The most important region of South Asia. It lays to the south
of the mountain ranges and the two great rivers of northern India comprise it: the Indus
River and the Ganges River.
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