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🏰World History – Before 1500
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400 essential vocabulary terms and definitions to know for your World History – Before 1500 exam

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Çatalhöyük
Ögedei Khan

A

Abbasid
Abbasid Revolution
Abu Bakr
Achaemenid Empire
Acheulean
Adat
Age-grade societies
Agricultural Surplus
Ahmose I
Ahura Mazda
Akkadian Empire
Aksumite Church
Al-Biruni
Al-Khwarizmi
Albigensian Crusade
Alexander the Great
Alexios I Komnenos
Ali
Allah
Amarna Period
Amber Road
Amenhotep III
Amorite dynasty
Amun-Ra
An Lushan Rebellion
Ancestral Pueblo
Ancestral Puebloan
Andean Region
Angra Mainyu
Animal Husbandry
Antigonid Kingdom
Apostle
Ara Pacis
Arabic script
Ark of the Covenant
Arquebus
Askia Muhammad I
Atlas Mountains
Ayllu
Ayyubid dynasty

B

Babylonian Captivity
Babylonian Empire
Bantu-speaking peoples
Barbarian Kingdoms
Battle of al-Qadisiyyah
Battle of Ankara
Battle of Badr
Battle of Gaugamela
Battle of Kadesh
Battle of Kosovo
Battle of Manzikert
Bayezid I
Behistun Inscription
Berber people
Bhagavad Gita
Bhakti
Bible
Black-figure
Bodhi tree
Bronze Age
Bronze Age collapse
Buffer states
Byzantine historiography

C

Caliphate of Córdoba
Caravan routes
Carolingian Renaissance
Cato the Elder
Centralization of Power
Chaco Canyon
Chagatai Khanate
Chandragupta Maurya
Chang'an
Chariot Warfare