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| 5498711371 | Aryans | Indo-European migrants who came into South Asia after the Indus Valley civilization; developed the culture that would form the basis for Indian civilizations afterwards. | 0 | |
| 5498711372 | Book of the Dead | An Egyptian book of spells and chants to be completed by a dead person in order that his soul might be rejoined with his body in paradise after death. |  | 1 |
| 5498711373 | Chinese Ideograms | Chinese writing system; originally a pictographic system that evolved into ideograms, in which symbols represent ideas regardless of the pronunciation. | 2 | |
| 5498711374 | City-States | A political system in which an urban-based king ruled his city and its surrounding area with a centralized government; each city-state thought of itself as an independent unity. |  | 3 |
| 5498711375 | Cuneiform | "Wedge-shaped"; the writing system invented by the Sumerians and used by all Mesopotamian civilizations afterwards. |  | 4 |
| 5498711378 | Dynasties | A family line of rulers, in which a father passed his political authority down to his son. | 5 | |
| 5498711380 | Epic of Gilgamesh | Earliest known written epic poem, which tells the legendary deeds of Gilgamesh, a historical king of Uruk; later became the model for all Mesopotamian kings. |  | 6 |
| 5498711381 | Hammurabi's Code | Earliest known written laws, established by the King of Babylon |  | 7 |
| 5498711382 | Social Hierarchy | A system of class distinctions in which some people have higher status than others. |  | 8 |
| 5498711383 | Hieroglyphs | "Sacred writing"; the writing system developed by the ancient Egyptians; also included a kind of "cursive" script known as Demotic. |  | 9 |
| 5498711384 | Indo-Europeans | A very large linguistic group that originated near the Caucasus mountains; eventually migrated to most of Eurasia, bringing the idea of civilization with them. | 10 | |
| 5498711385 | Indus Script | Undeciphered writing system used by the Indus Valley civilization. |  | 11 |
| 5498711386 | Loess | Silt that was blown from the Himalayas and deposited in East Asia, turning the Huang He yellow and providing nutrients to the soil as it flooded. |  | 12 |
| 5498711387 | Monsoons | A very regular pattern of winds that provided most of the rainfall for a whole year. |  | 13 |
| 5498711388 | Monumental Architecture | Large buildings that were designed to glorify the ruler and to strengthen the authority of the state and the elite. |  | 14 |
| 5498711390 | Patriarchy | A system of gender distinctions in which men were superior to women. |  | 15 |
| 5498711391 | Public Works | Construction projects that were required for the good of the general public; examples include defensive walls, flood control and irrigation, places of public worship, and plumbing. |  | 16 |
| 5498711392 | Quipu | Record-keeping system using string and knots to make and record calculations; used by all of the civilizations in the Andes |  | 17 |
| 5498711393 | Semites | A very large linguistic group that originated in the fertile crescent; eventually migrated into most of the Middle East, Mediterranean, and North Africa, spreading the idea of civilization with them. |  | 18 |
| 5498711394 | Sumerians | The original inhabitants of Mesopotamia; invented civilization without any previous model; would be replaced by other peoples but their civilization was copied. |  | 19 |
| 5498711395 | Urbanization | The process of living in large cities; a key feature of civilizations |  | 20 |
| 5498711396 | Ziggurat | A large pyramid-like structure constructed in Mesopotamia and used as a temple for the public displays of ritual. |  | 21 |
