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| 8915854923 | Ancestral Pueblo | Formerly known as the Anasazi, this people established a mixed agricultural and gathering/hunting society in the southwestern part of North America |  | 0 |
| 8915854924 | Apedemek | The lino god of classical Meroe, his popularity shows a turn away from Egyptian cultural influence |  | 1 |
| 8915854925 | Axum | Classical-era kingdom of East Africa, in present-day Eritrea and northern Ethiopia, flourished from 100-600 CE. Known for their conversion to Christianity |  | 2 |
| 8915854926 | Bantu expansion | Gradual migration for Bantu-speaking peoples from their homeland in what is now southern Nigeria and the Cameroons into most of eastern and southern Africa, a process that began around 3000 BCE and continued for several millennia. The agricultural techniques and iron-working technology of Bantu-speaking farmers gave them an advantage over the gathering/hunting peoples they encountered |  | 3 |
| 8915854927 | Batwa | Forest-dwelling people of Central Africa who adopted some of the ways of their Bantu neighbors while retaining distinctive features of their own culture; also known as "pygmies" |  | 4 |
| 8915854928 | Cahokia | The dominant center of an important Mississippi valley mound-building culture; located near present-day St. Louis, Missouri; flourished from about 900 to 1250 CE |  | 5 |
| 8915854929 | Chaco Phenomenon | Name given to a major process of settlement and societal organization that occurred in the period 860-1130 Ce among the peoples of Chaco canyon, in what is now northwestern New Mexico; the society formed is notable for its settlement in large pueblos and for the building of hundreds of miles of roads |  | 6 |
| 8915854930 | Chavin | Andean town that was the center of a larger Peruvian religious movement from around 900 to 200 BCE |  | 7 |
| 8915854931 | Coptic Christianity | The Egyptian variety of Christianity. distinctive in its belief that Christ has only a single, divine nature | 8 | |
| 8915854932 | Ezana | King of Axum in the early 4th century Ce who established Christianity in the state. |  | 9 |
| 8915854933 | Hopewell Culture | Named from its most important site (in present-day Ohio) this is the most elaborate and widespread of the North American mound-building cultures; flourished from 200 BCE to 400 CE |  | 10 |
| 8915854934 | Jenne-jeno | Largest and most fully studied of the cities of the Niger Valley civilization |  | 11 |
| 8915854935 | Maya | The major classical civilization of Mesoamerica; flourished from 250 to 900 CE |  | 12 |
| 8915854936 | Meroe | City in southern Nubia that was the center of Nubian civilization between 300 BCE and 100 CE |  | 13 |
| 8915854937 | Moche | An important regional civilization of Peru, governed by warrior-priests; flourished from around 100 to 800 CE |  | 14 |
| 8915854938 | Mound Builders | members of any of a number of cultures that developed east of the Mississippi River in what is now the United States and that are distinguished by their large earthen mounds, built during the period 2000 BCE and 1250 CE |  | 15 |
| 8915854939 | Nazca | A civilization of southern coastal Peru, the Nazca became famous for their underground irrigation channels and their gigantic and mysterious lines in the desert in the form of monkeys, birds, spiders and other designs |  | 16 |
| 8915854940 | Niger Valley civilization | Distinctive city-based civilization that flourished from about 300 BCE to 900 CE int he floodplain of the middle Niger and that included major cities like Jenne-Jeno; the Niger Valley civilization is particularly noteworthy for its apparent lack of centralized state structures, having been organized instead in clusters of economically specialized settlements. |  | 17 |
| 8915854941 | pueblo | "Great house" of the Ancestral Pueblo people; a large, apartment building-like structure that could house hundreds of people | 18 | |
| 8915854942 | "semi-sedentary" | Term frequently used to describe the peoples of the eastern woodlands of the United States, Central America, the Amazon basin, and the Caribbean islands who combined partial reliance on agriculture and gathering/hunting | 19 | |
| 8915854943 | Teotihuacan | The largest city of pre-Columbian America, with a population between 100,00 and 200,000; seemingly built to a plan in the Valley of Mexico; flourished between 300 and 600 CE during which time it governed or influenced much of the surrounding region; Means "city of the gods" |  | 20 |
| 8915854944 | Tikal | Major Maya city , with a population of perhaps 50,000 people |  | 21 |
| 8915854945 | Khoikhoi | A people of South Africa who adopted cattle and sheep heading (as well as iron working) as they came in contact with Bantu-speaking people from West Africa |  | 22 |
| 8915854946 | Continuous Revelation | A Bantu notion of religious belief in which the people believed in the possibility of constantly receiving new messages from the world beyond | 23 | |
| 8915854947 | Mesoamerican Agriculture | Agriculture in Central America primarily focused around maize, beans, chili peppers and squash |  | 24 |
| 8915854948 | Mesoamerican Trade | Back as far as the Olmecs, Central American people traded things like jade, serpentine, obsidian tools,ceramic pottery, shell ornaments, stingray spines, and turtle shells | 25 | |
| 8915854949 | Mayan Writing | The Mayans wrote on stone, bark paper and on deerskin |  | 26 |
| 8915854950 | Monte Alban | A major Zapotec city; engaged in diplomacy with Teotihuacan | 27 | |
| 8915854951 | Tiwanaku | Name of the capital city and empire centered on the region near Lake Titicaca in modern Bolivia (375-1000 CE) |  | 28 |
| 8915854952 | Pueblo Bonito | Important great house in Chaco canyon; trade networks linked together various pueblos that traded things like buffalo hides, copper, turquoise, seashells, macaw feathers and coiled baskets |  | 29 |
