Covers the ap world vocabulary for the first unit
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| 406109915 | Mesopotamia | land between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in Southwest Asia, home to the first civilization in the world the Sumerians, in modern day Iraq |  | 0 |
| 406109916 | Nile River Valley | the area of land surrounding the Nile River in North Africa, became home to the second known civilization, the Egyptians, in modern day Egypt |  | 1 |
| 2683878205 | Indus River Valley | the area of land around the Indus River in South Asia, gave birth to the Harappan and Mohenjo-Daro people, in modern day Pakistan |  | 2 |
| 406109913 | Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro | two city-states of the Indus River Valley, earliest complex society on the Indian subcontinent, well known for their city planning |  | 3 |
| 406109914 | Yellow River Valley | the area of land surrounding the Yellow River in East Asia, home to the Shang Dynasty, in modern day China |  | 4 |
| 5059331138 | Andean South America | Home of the Chavin |  | 5 |
| 5059335046 | Papua New Guinea | Home of the Polynesians and point of departure for their migrations |  | 6 |
| 406109911 | Paleolithic | the name given to the Old Stone Age, the time period where most humans were hunter-gatherers |  | 7 |
| 406109912 | Neolithic | the name given to the New Stone Age, when humans began domestication of both plants (agriculture) and animals (pastoralism) |  | 8 |
| 77184086 | Cuneiform | world's first writing system, an ancient wedge-shaped script first used in Mesopotamia |  | 9 |
| 5059342457 | ziggurat | temple com massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mudbricks. It is associated with religious complexes in ancient Mesopotamian city-states |  | 10 |
| 77184090 | Code of Hammurabi | world's first written code of laws, created by Hammurabi, a Babylonian king (died 1750 BC) There were nearly 300 laws based on the concept of "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth". |  | 11 |
| 406109920 | Hebrew Monotheism | Early group of people who lived in lands between Mesopotamia and Egypt. Their beliefs in one god became the basis for the later religion Judaism. |  | 12 |
| 77184089 | Mandate of Heaven | Chinese religious and political ideology developed by the Zhou, according to which it was the prerogative of Heaven to grant power to the ruler of China and to take away that power if the ruler failed to conduct himself justly and in the best interests of his subjects. |  | 13 |
| 77184085 | Middle Kingdom | the Chinese belief that they were superior to all others because they were in the middle of the world, between heaven and earth. |  | 14 |
| 77184088 | Vedic Religion | a religion and philosophy developed in ancient India, characterized by a belief in reincarnation and a supreme being who takes many forms, later became known as Hinduism |  | 15 |
| 2683902935 | Agricultural/ Neolithic Revolution | A time when people changed from hunting and gathering food to domesticating plants and animals |  | 16 |
| 2683953512 | End of the last Ice Age | When the long period of cold weather when huge sheets of ice covered part of the Earth's surface ended, the earth thawed leading to the Agricultural Revolution |  | 17 |
| 406098296 | Aryan Migration | Nomads that belonged to one of many groups of speakers of Indo-European languages who migrated from Central Asia to South Asia beginning around 1500BCE |  | 18 |
| 5059350006 | Bantu Migration | The movement of the Bantu peoples southward throughout Africa, spreading their language and culture, from around 1500 BCE to around 1000 CE |  | 19 |
| 2683960333 | Sumerians | The first civilization in history, settled in Mesopotamia along the Tigris River, they were the first people to invent the wheel and plow (a tool used for farming). They may have been the first people to discover agriculture and create an irrigation system. |  | 20 |
| 2683960334 | Babylonians | A group of people who conquered the Sumerians. They had a very famous king named Hammurabi. |  | 21 |
| 77184091 | Abraham | Considered the founder of Judaism who, according to the Bible, led his family from Ur to Canaan in obedience to God's command. |  | 22 |
| 2683960722 | Egyptians | The people of the Nile River Valley who had a highly centralized govt, lots of peasants and farmers, divine king-pharaoh, architecture-pyramids, and were obsessed with afterlife |  | 23 |
| 5059353666 | Hatshepsut | First female ruler in history, she ruled Egypt (1473-1458 B.C.E.). Dispatched a naval expedition down the Red Sea to Punt (possibly Somalia), the faraway source of myrrh. There is evidence of opposition to a woman as ruler, and after her death her name was frequently expunged. |  | 24 |
| 2683961362 | Hittites | A people from central Anatolia who established an empire in Turkey and Syria in the Late Bronze Age. With wealth from the trade in metals and military power based on chariot forces, they often fought with the Egyptians. |  | 25 |
| 406109917 | Shang Dynasty | earliest complex society in East Asia, well known for their bronze work, the first dynasty ruling China, settled in the Yellow River Valley |  | 26 |
| 2683961364 | Zhou Dynasty | displaced Shang Dynasty; overtook Yangtze River Valley (Middle Kingdom); created the Mandate of Heaven |  | 27 |
| 406109921 | Olmec | the first Mesoamerican civilization, flourished from 1200-400BCE in modern day Mexico |  | 28 |
| 2683962287 | Chavin | the first major South American civilization, which flourished in the highlands of what is now Peru from about 900 to 200 B.C. |  | 29 |
| 2683980133 | 8,000BCE | serves as the ending date of the Paleolithic Age and the beginning of the Neolithic Age | 30 | |
| 2683981316 | 600BCE | serves as the ending date of unit one | 31 |
