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| 31405614 | artisan | someone who crafts an object with raw materials | 0 | |
| 31405617 | city state | a self-governing urban center and the agricultural territories it controlled. | 1 | |
| 31405618 | civilization | when human society has advanced to share elements of government, architecture, ideas, etc. | 2 | |
| 31405619 | Cuneiform | wedge shaped writing / the "first" writing done with a stylus on a damp clay tablet and preserved through drying in the sun | 3 | |
| 31405622 | dynasty | when rule of a country or empire passes down through the family from one generation to the next | 4 | |
| 31405625 | Gilgamesh | the epic story of the king, Gilgamesh, who searched for immortality. This is a Sumerian legend and is believed to be the first story | 5 | |
| 31405627 | irrigation | supplying water to agricultural land by artificial means | 6 | |
| 31405629 | polytheism | the worship of many gods | 7 | |
| 31405631 | scribe | someone who writes / usually a revered position in ancient society | 8 | |
| 31405632 | Semitic | refers to a family of languages spoken in parts of western Asia and northern Africa | 9 | |
| 31405638 | ziggurat | multistory, mud-brick pyramid shaped tower approached my ramps and stairs. administrative building. | 10 | |
| 31405748 | farming technology | tools used to make and grow food | 11 | |
| 31405749 | Fertile Crescent | first domestication of plants and animals occurs here | 12 | |
| 31405750 | Domesticate | To tame animals and wild plants so that they would have a steady supply of food | 13 | |
| 31405751 | Mesopotamia | Greek meaning of the land between 2 rivers. Name for the Large Plain that stretches between the Tigris River and the east of the Euphrates River on the west | 14 | |
| 31405753 | Delta | A marshy area where a river splits into smaller streams | 15 | |
| 31405754 | Irrigate | To bring water to their fields | 16 | |
| 31405755 | Dikes | A low earthen wall | 17 | |
| 31405758 | Barter economy | goods were exchanged for other goods | 18 | |
| 31405759 | Scribe | are people who sell their writing skills for a living, kept records and accounts on clay table | 19 | |
| 31405764 | Architecture | the art of designing buildings | 20 | |
| 31405766 | Cuneiform | language written with a reed to make strokes and wedges. | 21 | |
| 31405769 | Hammurabi's Code of Laws | the series of laws made by Hammurabi, a king of the group of people called Babylonians. It is very detailed and it is recorded on a Stela. | 22 | |
| 31407610 | holocene | a warming period in the neolithic age | 23 | |
| 31407611 | pastoralism | to follow herds of animals | 24 | |
| 31407612 | Sargon | formed a uniform system of weights and measures and standardized formats for documents and unified Mesopotamia | 25 | |
| 31407613 | lugal | "big man," or early form of king | 26 | |
| 31407614 | amulet | a trinket or piece of jewelry thought to be a protection against evil | 27 | |
| 31407615 | patrilineal | inheritance passed through the father | 28 | |
| 31407616 | matrilineal | inheritance passed through the mother | 29 | |
| 31407617 | Nippur | important religious city, an early city-state in Mesopotamia | 30 | |
| 31408028 | megaliths | big stone rocks | 31 | |
| 31408029 | pasturalists | people who move with herds of animals | 32 | |
| 31408030 | history | transformation, development,transmission | 33 | |
| 31408031 | Djoser | first pharaoh to build pyramids | 34 | |
| 31408032 | Ra | sun god | 35 | |
| 31412898 | osiris | god of underworld | 36 | |
| 31412899 | hieroglyphics | Egyptian writing system consisting of pictures | 37 | |
| 31412900 | Menes | unified Egypt and became their leader | 38 | |
| 31412901 | highest social class of Egypt | king & high-ranking officials | 39 | |
| 31412902 | second highest social class of Egypt | local leaders, officials, priests, artisans, farmers | 40 | |
| 31412903 | third highest social class of Egypt | peasants | 41 | |
| 31412904 | highest class of Mesopotamia | royalty, high-ranking officials, warriors, priests, merchants, artisans | 42 | |
| 31412905 | Second highest class of Mesopotamia | farmers | 43 | |
| 31412906 | Third highest class of Mesopotamia | slaves | 44 | |
| 31412907 | Anthropomorphic (gods in mesopotamia) | give human qualities to non-living things | 45 | |
| 31412908 | gods in egypt | stable and not anthropomorphic | 46 | |
| 31412909 | Marduk and Tiamot | two main gods of mesopotamia. tiamot (female sea god) was killed by marduk (male god) | 47 | |
| 31412910 | forager | hunters and food gatherers | 48 | |
| 31412911 | Neolithic Age (common era) | agriculture revolution where farming and agriculture took over. more complex stone tools for farming. | 49 | |
| 31412912 | Paleolithic B.C.E (before common era) | foragers gather food. primitive stone tools are used. | 50 | |
| 31412913 | Neolithic time period | 8000 b.c.e - 2000 b.c.e | 51 | |
| 31412914 | Paleolithic time period | 2 million- 8000 b.c.e | 52 | |
| 31412915 | Stone Age | era where most tools were made of stone | 53 | |
| 31412916 | Babylon | most important city in southern Mesopotamia in the second and first millennia b.c.e | 54 | |
| 31412917 | Mesopotamia | means "land between the rivers" | 55 | |
| 31412918 | Mesopotamia's abundant resource | clay. | 56 | |
| 31412919 | ma'at | the divinely authorized order of the universe | 57 | |
| 31412920 | pyramid | series of stone platforms laid one on top of the other | 58 | |
| 31412921 | Memphis and Thebes | capitals of ruling dynasties in Egypt | 59 | |
| 31412922 | papyrus | writing material in Egypt | 60 | |
| 31412923 | mummy | corpse filled with packing materials and is immersed with cadaver. | 61 | |
| 31412924 | Mohenjo-Daro, Harappa | early cities in the Indus Valley founded on irrigation, central planning. had sewage lines. | 62 | |
| 31412925 | egalitarian | equal. everyone has rights. | 63 |
