a Christian kingdom that developed in the highlands of eastern Africa under the dynasty of King Labibela; retained Christianity in the face of Muslim expansion elsewhere in Africa desert running across southern Africa; separates the Mediterranean coast from southern Africa religion of early Japanese religion; devotees worshipped numerous gods and spirits associated the natured world; offers of food and prayers made to gods and nature spirits cultural tradition that arose in San Lorenzo and la Vento in Mexico; featured irrigated agriculture, urbanism, elaborate religion, beginnings of calendric and writing systems classic culture emerging in southern Mexico and central America contemporary with Teotihuacan; extended over broad region; featured monumental architecture, written language, calendric and mathematical systems, highly developed religion groups of clans centered at Cuzco that were able to create empire incorporating various Andean culture; term also used for leader of empire islands contained in a rough triangle whose rough points are located in Hawaii, New Zealand, and Easter Island regional princes in western India; emphasized military control of their major world religion having its origins in 610 C

1. Ethiopia

a Christian kingdom that developed in the highlands of eastern Africa under the dynasty of King Labibela; retained Christianity in the face of Muslim expansion elsewhere in Africa

2. Sahara

desert running across southern Africa; separates the Mediterranean coast from southern Africa

3. Shintoisim

religion of early Japanese religion; devotees worshipped numerous gods and spirits associated the natured world; offers of food and prayers made to gods and nature spirits

4. Olmec culture

cultural tradition that arose in San Lorenzo and la Vento in Mexico; featured irrigated agriculture, urbanism, elaborate religion, beginnings of calendric and writing systems

5. Mayas

classic culture emerging in southern Mexico and central America contemporary with Teotihuacan; extended over broad region; featured monumental architecture, written language, calendric and mathematical systems, highly developed religion

6. Inca

groups of clans centered at Cuzco that were able to create empire incorporating various Andean culture; term also used for leader of empire

7. Polynesian

islands contained in a rough triangle whose rough points are located in Hawaii, New Zealand, and Easter Island

8. Rajput

regional princes in western India; emphasized military control of their

9. Islam

major world religion having its origins in 610 C.E. in the Arabian Peninsula; meaning literally submission; based on prophecy of Muhammad

10. Allah

supreme God in strictly monothetic Islam