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🏺Early World Civilizations
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257 essential vocabulary terms and definitions to know for your Early World Civilizations exam

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çatalhöyük
25th dynasty

A

Abu Bakr
Achaemenid Architecture
Agni
Agricultural Surplus
Ahmose I
Ahura Mazda
Al-Farabi
Al-khwarizmi
Amenhotep III
Amun-Ra
Andean Civilizations
Andes Mountains
Anthemius of Tralles
Antonine Plague
Arab Trade Relations
Arian Controversy
Artisan class
Ashurnasirpal II
Atharvaveda
Athenian Empire
Athens
Atlatl
Atman
Attila the Hun
Augustus

B

Ba
Battle of Kirina
Battle of Marathon
Bhagavad Gita
Book of Documents
Book of the Dead
Brahman
Bronze metallurgy
Bronze production
Bronze tools
Bronze vessels
Burial practices

C

Canal systems
Caravan trade
Carbon dating
Cathedral of Saint Sophia (Kiev)
Centralized Administration
Chagatai Khanate
Chang'an
Chavín de Huantar
Chichen Itza
Chinvat Bridge
Classic period
Classical antiquity
Classical sculpture
Code of Hammurabi
Codification of Laws
Coffin Texts
Coinage system
Combined arms tactics
Conflict of the Orders
Corinth
Corinthian Order
Council of Five Hundred
Council of Nicaea
Crisis of the Third Century
Cross-in-square
Cultural continuity
Cultural hybridization
Cuneiform tablets
Cursus honorum

D

Darius I
Delian League
Dendrochronology
Divine Kingship
Doric Order

E

Eastern Orthodox Christianity
Eastern Orthodox Church