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- 3. warriors within the Indian caste system
- 7. Chinese imperial dynasty which preceded the Song; one of the greatest periods of peace and prosperity in Chinese history, and it is remembered for its cultural achievements and its strong and centralized government
- 8. a political philosophy in China that emphasized the unruliness of human nature and justified state coercion and control. The Qin rulers and early Han rulers invoked it to validate the authoritarian nature of their regimes
- 9. a vast network of trading routes that connected the East to the West: Constantinople in Europe to Chang'an in Asia
- 11. the blending of elements from more than one religion into a distinct system of worship
- 12. the oldest collection of scriptures of Hinduism and religious texts in an ancient Sanskrit language
- 13. the earliest known Mexican civilizations
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- 1. a Chinese imperial dynasty that ruled from 960 to 1279 that preceded the Yuan Dynasty
- 2. enslaved soldiers from the Abbasid era
- 4. China’s longest running dynasty
- 5. a Confucian virtue of respect, obedience, and care for one's parents and elderly family members
- 6. any movement of the citizens of a population sharing the same ethnic descent
- 10. a rigid social system in India that gives every Indian a particular place in the social hierarchy from birth
- 11. the indigenous religion of Japan in which people believed that kami (spirits) were present in their natural surroundings