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| 6532096855 | Paleolithic Age | the Old Stone Age ending in 12,000 B.C.E.; typified by use of evolving stone tools and hunting and gathering for subsistence. | 0 | |
| 6532096856 | Homo sapiens sapiens | the species of humanity that emerged as most successful at the end of the Paleolithic. | 1 | |
| 6532096857 | Neolithic Age | the New Stone Age between 8000 and 5000 B.C.E.; period in which adaptation of sedentary agriculture occurred; domestication of plants and animals accomplished. | 2 | |
| 6532096858 | Neolithic revolution | the succession of technological innovations and changes in human organization that led to the development of agriculture, 8500-3500 B.C.E. | 3 | |
| 6532096859 | Hunting and gathering | means of obtaining subsistence by humans before the mastery of sedentary agriculture; normally typical of tribal social organization. | 4 | |
| 6532096860 | Çatal Hüyük | early urban culture based on sedentary agriculture; located in modern southern Turkey; larger in population than Jericho, had greater degree of social stratification. | 5 | |
| 6532096861 | Bronze Age | from 4000 to 3000 B.C.E.; increased use of plow, metalworking; development of wheeled vehicles, writing. | 6 | |
| 6532096862 | Nomads | cattle- and sheep-herding societies normally found on the fringes of civilized societies; commonly referred to as "barbarian" by civilized societies. | 7 | |
| 6532096863 | Shi Huangdi | first emperor of China; founder of Qin dynasty. | 8 | |
| 6532096864 | Qin | dynasty (221-207 B.C.E.) founded at the end of the Warring States period. | 9 | |
| 6532096865 | Han | dynasty succeeding the Qin ruled from 202 B.C.E. to 220 C.E. | 10 | |
| 6532096866 | Zhou | originally a vassal family of the Shang; possibly Turkic-speaking in origin; overthrew Shang and established 2nd Chinese dynasty (1122-256 B.C.E.). | 11 | |
| 6532096867 | Great Wall | Chinese defensive fortification built to keep out northern nomadic invaders; began during the reign of Shi Huangdi. | 12 | |
| 6532096868 | Confucius | major Chinese philosopher born in 6th century B.C.E.; sayings collected in Analects; philosophy based on the need for restoration of social order through the role of superior men. stateless societies: societies of varying sizes organized through kinship and lacking the concentration of power found in centralized states. | 13 | |
| 6532096869 | Ifriqiya | Roman name for present-day Tunisia. | 14 | |
| 6532096870 | Maghrib | Arabic term for northwestern Africa. | 15 | |
| 6532096871 | Almohadis | a later puritanical Islamic reform movement among the Berbers of northwest Africa; also built an empire reaching from the African savanna into Spain. | 16 | |
| 6532096872 | juula | Malinke merchants who traded throughout the Mali Empire and west Africa. | 17 | |
| 6532096873 | Sundiata | created a unified state that became the Mali empire; died in 1260. | 18 | |
| 6532096874 | griots | professional oral historians who served as keepers of traditions and advisors to kings within the Mali Empire. | 19 | |
| 6532096875 | Ibn Batuta | Arab traveler throughout the Muslim world. | 20 | |
| 6532096876 | Timbuktu | Niger River port city of Mali; had a famous Muslim university. | 21 | |
| 6532096877 | Songhay | successor state to Mali; dominated middle reaches of the Niger valley; capital at Gao. | 22 | |
| 6532096878 | Hausa | peoples of northern Nigeria, formed states following the demise of Songhay Empire that combined Muslim and pagan traditions. | 23 | |
| 6532096879 | Muhammad the Great | extended the boundaries of Songhay in the mid-16th century. | 24 |
