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| 205706436 | Agrarian | concerning farms, farmers, or the use of land | 0 | |
| 205706437 | Agriculturists | Generate their own foods from planting | 1 | |
| 205706438 | Archaeology | study of artifacts and relics of early mankind | 2 | |
| 205706439 | Aryans | nomads from Europe and Asia who migrated to India and finally settled; vedas from this time suggest beginning of caste system | 3 | |
| 205706440 | Asceticism | rigorous self-denial and active self-restraint | 4 | |
| 205706441 | Austronesian | the family of languages spoken in Australia and Formosa and Malaysia and Polynesia | 5 | |
| 205706442 | Brahman | the highest of the four varnas: the priestly or sacerdotal category | 6 | |
| 205706443 | Brahmins | priests | 7 | |
| 205706444 | Caste | a social class separated from others by distinctions of hereditary rank or profession or wealth | 8 | |
| 205706445 | Cataracts | Waterfalls ,eye disease in which the lens becomes covered in an opaque film that affects sight, eventually causing total blindness. | 9 | |
| 205706446 | Bureaucracy | system of managing government through departments run by appointed officials | 10 | |
| 205706447 | Civilization | a society in an advanced state of social development (e.g., with complex legal and political and religious organizations) | 11 | |
| 205706448 | Cuneiform | an ancient wedge-shaped script used in Mesopotamia and Persia | 12 | |
| 205706449 | Domestication | accommodation to domestic life | 13 | |
| 205706450 | Dynasty | a sequence of powerful leaders in the same family | 14 | |
| 205706451 | Economic Specialization | Focusing on one product or service | 15 | |
| 205706452 | Egalitarian | a person who believes in the equality of all people | 16 | |
| 205706453 | Erosion | (geology) the mechanical process of wearing or grinding something down (as by particles washing over it) | 17 | |
| 205706454 | Foraging | the act of searching for food and provisions | 18 | |
| 205706455 | Hammurabi's Code | A legal code developed by King Hammurabi of Mesopotamia. The code was influential in the establishment of Hebrew and Islamic law and in the U.S. judiciary system. It specified crimes and punishments to help judges impose penalties. | 19 | |
| 205706456 | Hieroglyphics | an ancient Egyptian writing system in which pictures were used to represent ideas and sounds | 20 | |
| 205706457 | Hittites | A people from central Anatolia who established an empire in Anatolia and Syria in the Late Bronze Age. With wealth from the trade in metals and military power based on chariot forces, the hittites vied with New Kingdom Egypt over Syria (p.64) | 21 | |
| 205706458 | Indo-European | A family of languages consisting of most of the languages of Europe as well as those of Iran, the Indian subcontinent, and other parts of Asia | 22 | |
| 205706459 | Karma | (Hinduism and Buddhism) the effects of a person's actions that determine his destiny in his next incarnation | 23 | |
| 205706460 | Loess | a fine-grained unstratified accumulation of clay and silt deposited by the wind | 24 | |
| 205706461 | Maize | tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears: widely cultivated in America in many varieties | 25 | |
| 205706462 | Mandate of Heaven | a political theory of ancient China in which those in power were given the right to rule from a divine source | 26 | |
| 205706463 | Matriarchal | relating to a social system in which the mother is head of the family | 27 | |
| 205706464 | Mercenary | a person hired to fight for another country than their own | 28 | |
| 205706465 | Metallurgy | the science and technology of metals | 29 | |
| 205706466 | Moksha | The Hindu concept of the spirit's 'liberation' from the endless cycle of rebirths. (179) | 30 | |
| 205706467 | Monotheism | belief in a single God | 31 | |
| 205706468 | Neolithic | latest part of the Stone Age beginning about 10,000 BC in the middle east (but later elsewhere) | 32 | |
| 205706469 | Nomad | a member of a people who have no permanent home but move about according to the seasons | 33 | |
| 205706470 | Obsidian | A usually black or banded, hard volcanic glass that displays shiny, curved surfaces when fractured and is formed by rapid cooling of lava | 34 | |
| 205706471 | Oracle Bones | animal bones carved with written characters which were used for telling the future | 35 | |
| 205706472 | Paleolithic | second part of the Stone Age beginning about 750,00 to 500,000 years BC and lasting until the end of the last ice age about 8,500 years BC | 36 | |
| 205706473 | Pastoralism | A type of agricultural activity based on nomadic animal husbandry or the raising of livestock to provide food, clothing, and shelter. | 37 | |
| 205706474 | Patriarchal | relating to a society in which men hold the greatest legal and moral authority | 38 | |
| 205706475 | Pharaoh | the title of the ancient Egyptian kings | 39 | |
| 205706476 | Pictographs | pictures that stand for words or ideas; picture writing | 40 | |
| 205706477 | Polytheism | belief in multiple Gods | 41 | |
| 205706478 | Samsara | (Hinduism and Buddhism) the endless cycle of birth and suffering and death and rebirth | 42 | |
| 205706479 | Sati | a ritual that required a woman to throw herself on her late husband's funeral pyre or burn herself. This was done gladly and if a woman didn't comply with this she would be disgraced. | 43 | |
| 205706480 | Savannah | a flat grassland in tropical or subtropical regions | 44 | |
| 205706481 | Self-Sufficient | able to provide there own needs | 45 | |
| 205706482 | Varna | (Hinduism) the name for the original social division of Vedic people into four groups (which are subdivided into thousands of jatis) | 46 | |
| 205706483 | Vedas | Ancient Sanskrit writings that are the earliest sacred texts of Hinduism. | 47 | |
| 205706484 | Veneration | respect or awe inspired by the dignity, wisdom, dedication, or talent of a person | 48 | |
| 205706485 | Zoroastrianism | dual gods of equal power to form early monotheism; Persian; cosmic struggle over good and bad; those that do good go to heaven and bad go to hell; influenced Judaism and Christianity | 49 |
