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9558017913Paleolithic Erathe first part of the Stone Age; when people first used stone tools0
9558017914Neolithic RevolutionThe switch from nomadic lifestyles to a settled agricultural lifestyle is this revolution. A turning point in the stone age1
9558017915PastoralismA strategy for food production involving the domestication of animals2
9558017916PatriarchyA male dominated society3
9558017917AnimismThe belief of a supernatural power that organizes and animated the material universe. Belief that inanimate objects have souls4
9558017918TributeMoney paid for protection5
9558017919slash and burnwhen an area of vegetation is cut down and burned before being planted with crops6
9558017920deforestationThe removal of trees faster than forests can replace themselves. Destruction of forests7
9558017921Diasporathe dispersion of the Jews outside Israel8
9558017922CaravanA large group of people traveling across the desert in Asia or North Africa9
9558017923QuetzalcoatlToltec deity; Feathered Serpent; adopted by Aztecs as a major god10
9558017924Lateen sailsa triangular sail on a long yard at an angle of 45° to the mast.11
9558017925Theocracya system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god.12
9558017926HunsA nomadic people who lived in Eastern Europe and central Asia between the 4th and 6th century AD13
9558017927AristocracyA government in which power is in the hands of a hereditary ruling class or nobility14
9558017928Dhow ShipsArab sailing vessels with triangular or lateen sails; strongly influenced European ship design15
9558017929Artisansskilled workers who make goods by hand16
9558017930Qanat Systemtapping into groundwater through a series of gently sloping tunnels17
9558017931Hellenistic PeriodTime period between death of Alexander(323) and Rise of Rome (27BC)18
9558017932Pax RomanaA period of peace and prosperity throughout the Roman Empire, lasting from 27 B.C. to A.D. 180.19
9558017933PolisA city-state in ancient Greece.20
9558017934Stoicismthe endurance of pain or hardship without a display of feelings and without complaint.21
955801793512 Tables of Rome451 BCE. Written set of laws that stated the rules of behavior for members of Roman Society.22
9558017936CorveeA days unpaid labor owed by a vassal to his feudal lord23

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