10511969959 | Hammurabi's Code | Sophisticated law code associated with the Babylonian king Hammurabi | 0 | |
10511975965 | Hanging Gardens of Babylon | 1 | ||
10511975966 | Hieroglyphics | Ancient Egyptian written language | 2 | |
10511978110 | hunter-gatherer | a member of a nomadic people who live chiefly by hunting, fishing, and harvesting wild food. | 3 | |
10511979905 | iron technology | following the Stone Age and the Bronze Age, marked by the use of implements and weapons made of iron spreading technology of war, farming, and construction | 4 | |
10511979906 | irrigation | The process of supplying water to areas of land to make them suitable for growing crops. | 5 | |
10511983192 | Mandate of Heaven | Chinese belief that the emperors ruled through the mandate, or approval, of heaven contingent on their ability to look after the welfare of the population. | 6 | |
10511985743 | Metallurgy | the science of working with metals | 7 | |
10511985744 | Monotheism | Belief in one god, a rare concept in the ancient world | 8 | |
10511990574 | monumental architecture | Large structures, such as pyramids, temples, public spaces, and large statues, that generally appear wherever powerful leaders emerge; a feature of all agrarian civilizations. | 9 | |
10511990575 | Mummification | A process of embalming and drying corpses to prevent them from decaying | 10 | |
10511992741 | Neolithic Revolution | The switch from nomadic lifestyles to a settled agricultural lifestyle is this revolution. | 11 | |
10511995077 | nomadic | wandering, moving about from place to place | 12 | |
10511995078 | oracle bones | Chinese Shang dynasty (1766-1122 B.C.E.) means of foretelling the future. | 13 | |
10511995079 | paleolithic | (Old Stone Age) a long period of human development before the development of agriculture | 14 | |
10511997247 | pastoral nomads | groups of herders who move with their animals from place to place in search of pasture and water | 15 | |
10511997248 | pastoralism | A type of agricultural activity based on nomadic animal husbandry or the raising of livestock to provide food, clothing, and shelter. | 16 | |
10511997249 | patriarchy | A form of social organization in which males dominate females | 17 | |
10512001307 | Period of the Warring States | Last centuries of the Zhou Dynasty (403-221 BCE) when wars divided the region until the establishment of the Qin Dynasty ended the disunity. | 18 |
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