7224468800 | hominids | humans and other creatures that walk upright | 0 | |
7224468801 | Homosapiens | The species name for modern humans | 1 | |
7224468802 | complex society | -job specialization | 2 | |
7224468803 | lucy | the first human who left remains of her bones; she lived around 3.5 million years ago. | 3 | |
7224468804 | Paleolithic | Old stone age | 4 | |
7224468805 | Neolithic | "New Stone Age" | 5 | |
7224468806 | Venus figurines | Small Paleolithic statues of women with exaggerated sexual features. | 6 | |
7224468807 | Lascaux Cave Paintings | cave art | 7 | |
7224468808 | Textiles | the craft of making clothes | 8 | |
7224468809 | Neolithic Revolution | The switch from nomadic lifestyles to a settled agricultural lifestyle is this revolution. | 9 | |
7224468810 | Epic of Gilgamesh | an epic poem from ancient Mesopotamia | 10 | |
7224468811 | Irrigation | The process of supplying water to areas of land to make them suitable for growing crops. | 11 | |
7224468812 | Hammurabi's Code | first written code/set of laws that all were expected to obey. law of retaliation | 12 | |
7224468813 | Assyrian Empire | 934 to 608 BCE, Successful Empire in Mesopotamia | 13 | |
7224468814 | bronze and iron metallurgy | the modification of a metal to make usefull objects | 14 | |
7224468815 | Mesopotamia | Land between Tigris and Euphrates rivers | 15 | |
7224468816 | Cunieform | The world's first system of writing | 16 | |
7224468817 | Phoenicians | the most powerful traders along the Mediterranean | 17 | |
7224468818 | Monotheism | Belief in one God | 18 | |
7224468819 | Polytheism | Belief in many gods | 19 | |
7224468820 | Patriarchal Society | a system run by men only | 20 | |
7224468821 | Mummification | the preservation of dead bodies by embalming and wrapping them in cloth | 21 | |
7224468822 | Savannahs | a grassy plain in tropical regions | 22 | |
7224468823 | Demographic Pressure | the way humans damage the environment with populations and their size and rapid growth | 23 | |
7224468824 | Cataracts | a large waterfall | 24 | |
7224468825 | Pharaoh | Ancient Egyptian king | 25 | |
7224468826 | Mercenary | a professional soldier hired by a foreign army | 26 | |
7224468827 | Scribes | people who specialized in writing and record keeping | 27 | |
7224468828 | Menes/Narmer | pharaoh that United upper and lower Egypt | 28 | |
7224468829 | Heiroglyphics | Egyptian form of writing | 29 | |
7224468830 | Pyramids | Huge stone tombs with four triangle-shaped walls that met in a point on top | 30 | |
7224468831 | Rosetta Stone | Artifact that unlocked the mystery of Egyptian hieroglyphics | 31 | |
7224468832 | Arayns | nomadic indo Europeans | 32 | |
7224468833 | Harappan | The first Indian civilization; also known as the Indus Valley civilization | 33 | |
7224468834 | vedas | book of knowledge; collection of prayers and hymns | 34 | |
7224468835 | Big Veda | a collection of 1,028 hymns dedicated to Aryan gods | 35 | |
7224468836 | Castes | social groups into which people are born and cannot change | 36 | |
7224468837 | Upanishads | Indian mystical and philosophical works, written between 800 and 400 B.C.E. | 37 | |
7224468838 | Brahmin | Priests | 38 | |
7224468839 | ascetic | One who leads a life of self-denial and contemplation; absent of luxury | 39 | |
7224468840 | sati | the Hindu ritual requiring a wife to throw herself on her deceased husband's funeral pyre | 40 | |
7224468841 | Dravidians | The original people of the Indus Valley | 41 | |
7224468842 | karma | the effects that good or bad actions have on a person's soul | 42 | |
7224468843 | Brahman | The term for The Univeral Soul in Hinduism. | 43 | |
7224468844 | jati | subcastes | 44 | |
7224468845 | Ecological Degradation | the deterioration of the environment through overuse of resources | 45 | |
7224468846 | Dynasty | A series of rulers from the same family | 46 | |
7224468847 | Xia Dynasty | first Chinese dynasty | 47 | |
7224468848 | loess | a fine, light slit deposited by by win and water | 48 | |
7224468849 | China's Sorrow | Yellow river floods were disastrous, destroyed whole villages | 49 | |
7224468776 | Hereditary state | the passing of power through blood | 50 | |
7224468777 | Zhou Dynasty | the longest lasting Chinese dynasty, during which the use of iron was introduced. | 51 | |
7224468778 | Book of Songs | a collection of 305 of the earliest recorded poems in Chinese history | 52 | |
7224468779 | Mandate of Heaven | in Chinese history, the divine approval thought to be the basis of royal authority | 53 | |
7224468780 | Oracle bones | animal bones carved with written characters which were used for telling the future | 54 | |
7224468781 | steppe lands | grasslands and shrub lands | 55 | |
7224468782 | Decentralized administration | system of government that shares power over multiple regions with co leaders | 56 | |
7224468783 | Royal Courts | a court that dealt with all land disputes and some felonies | 57 | |
7224468784 | cowrie shells | Imported from the Maldives, they served as the medium of exchange in West Africa | 58 | |
7224468785 | Ancestor Veneration | Worship and respect for ancestors | 59 | |
7224468786 | Obsidian | volcanic glass | 60 | |
7224468787 | Maize | corn | 61 | |
7224468788 | Bering Land Bridge | Former ice age link between Siberia and Alaska. | 62 | |
7224468789 | ceremonial center | an area used for religious ceremonies by the ancient people of the Americas | 63 | |
7224468790 | Authoritarian terraces | a type of land scaping the improves farming | 64 | |
7224468791 | bloodletting rituals | men and women cut themselves and bled to appease their gods | 65 | |
7224468792 | double-hulled canoes | canoes with two waterproof layers | 66 | |
7224468793 | Olmec ball games | ball game in which losers are executed | 67 | |
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