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| 2825957745 | civilization | the stage of human social development and organization that is considered most advanced |  | 0 |
| 2825966102 | culture | : a particular society that has its own beliefs, ways of life, art, etc. : a way of thinking, behaving, or working that exists in a place or organization |  | 1 |
| 2827368907 | Stone Age | The Stone Age is also divided into three different periods. the period in the history of humankind, preceding the Bronze Age and the Iron Age, and marked by the use of stone implements and weapons: |  | 2 |
| 2827426312 | Paleolithic | of, relating to, or denoting the early phase of the Stone Age, lasting about 2.5 million years, when primitive stone implements were used. : of or relating to the time during the early Stone Age when people made rough tools and weapons out of stone |  | 3 |
| 2827426904 | Neolithic | of, relating to, or denoting the later part of the Stone Age, when ground or polished stone weapons and implements prevailed. |  | 4 |
| 2827427577 | Foragers | the seeking or obtaining of such food. to search about; seek; rummage; hunt: |  | 5 |
| 2827428753 | Agricultural Revolution | Gradual transformation of the traditional agricultural system that began in Britain in the 18th century. new machinery, better drainage, scientific methods of breeding, and experimentation with new crops and systems of crop rotation. |  | 6 |
| 2827430712 | Babylon | : a city devoted to materialism and sensual pleasure |  | 7 |
| 2827430713 | Sumerians | of or relating to Sumer, its people, or their language. Sumer is an ancient region in southern Mesopotamia that contained a number of independent cities and city-states of which the first were established possibly as early as 5000 b.c.: conquered by the Elamites and, about 2000 b.c., by the Babylonians |  | 8 |
| 2827432095 | Semitic | relating to or denoting a family of languages that includes Hebrew, Arabic, and Aramaic and certain ancient languages such as Phoenician and Akkadian, constituting the main subgroup of the Afro-Asiatic family. |  | 9 |
| 2827432733 | Hammurabi | d 1750 b.c. king of Babylon (1792-500) |  | 10 |
| 2827432734 | scribe | a person who copies out documents |  | 11 |
| 2827433526 | ziggurat | : an ancient Mesopotamian temple tower consisting of a lofty pyramidal structure built in successive stages with outside staircases and a shrine at the top; |  | 12 |
| 2827434519 | cuneiform | denoting or relating to the wedge-shaped characters used in the ancient writing systems of Mesopotamia, Persia, and Ugarit, surviving mainly impressed on clay tablets |  | 13 |
| 2827443410 | Hittites | a member of an ancient people who established an empire in Asia Minor and Syria that flourished from circa 1700 to circa 1200 BC. |  | 14 |
| 2827444123 | mass deportation | 1. The act or an instance of deporting. 2. Expulsion of an undesirable alien from a country |  | 15 |
| 2827444673 | Israel | the northern kingdom of the Hebrews (c. 930-721 bc), formed after the reign of Solomon, whose inhabitants were carried away to captivity in Assyria |  | 16 |
| 2827444674 | Hebrew Bible | the sacred writings of Judaism, called by Christians the Old Testament, and comprising the Law (Torah), the Prophets, and the Hagiographa or Writings |  | 17 |
| 2827445731 | First Temple | : a building for religious practice: as a often capitalized : either of two successive national sanctuaries in ancient Jerusalem b : a building for Mormon sacred ordinances c : the house of worship of Reform and some Conservative Jewish congregations |  | 18 |
| 2827446690 | monotheism | the doctrine or belief that there is only one God. |  | 19 |
| 2827449196 | polytheism | the belief in or worship of more than one god |  | 20 |
| 2827449789 | diaspora | Jews living outside Israel. |  | 21 |
| 2827453735 | Phoenicians | a member of a Semitic people inhabiting ancient Phoenicia and its colonies. The Phoenicians prospered from trade and manufacturing until the capital, Tyre, was sacked by Alexander the Great in 332 bc |  | 22 |
| 2827454479 | city-state | a city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state. |  | 23 |
| 2834247561 | venus figures | an ancient Italian goddess of gardens and spring, identified by the Romans with Aphrodite as the goddess of love and beauty. |  | 24 |
| 2834248109 | lucy | the nickname of a partial female skeleton of a fossil hominid found in Ethiopia in 1974, about 3.2 million years old and 3 feet 8 inches |  | 25 |
| 2834258331 | lascaux cave painting | the site of a cave in the Dordogne, France, which is richly decorated with Paleolithic wall paintings of animals dated to the Magdalenian period. |  | 26 |
