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| 10478125443 | herders | nomadic pastoralists with large grazing animals | 0 | |
| 10478125444 | patriarchy | male dominance that increased in agricultural and complex urban societies | 1 | |
| 10478125445 | ziggurat | mesopotamian religious temple | 2 | |
| 10478125446 | irrigation | technology that could double or triple crop yields in warm climates | 3 | |
| 10478125447 | Agricultural Revolution | another term for neolithic revolution | 4 | |
| 10478125448 | vedic | religious practices that developed in hinduism | 5 | |
| 10478125449 | labor specialization | the division of jobs and skills in a society | 6 | |
| 10478125450 | aryan | cattle herding culture from east europe/black sea area to india | 7 | |
| 10478125451 | bering | strait or narrow body of water became a land bridge for nomadic groups migrating from siberia to the americas | 8 | |
| 10478125452 | nubia | major trade partner just south of egypt | 9 | |
| 10478125453 | maize | mesoamerican staple crop - term for corn | 10 | |
| 10478125454 | states | political units larger than a city with recognized boundaries and central government | 11 | |
| 10478125455 | judaism | earliest monotheistic religion | 12 | |
| 10478125456 | pastoral societies | Nomadic societies that mainly relied on animals, such as sheep, goats, cattle, horses, and camels, instead of farming. | 13 | |
| 10478125457 | secondary products revolution | around 4000 b.c.e where people furthered the technological changes about by the Agricultural Revolution. using animals for more than meat and learning how to ride horses and camels | 14 | |
| 10478125458 | banpo | early agricultural village that underwent an explosion of technological innovations | 15 | |
| 10478125459 | ishi | example of modern day paleolithic man, ishi was part of the hunting and gathering society of the Yahi | 16 | |
| 10478125460 | Bantu migration | series of migrations of the bantu people that brought population increase | 17 | |
| 10478125461 | Diffusion | spread of cultural beliefs and social activities from one group of people to another | 18 | |
| 10478125462 | Teosinte | A type of wild maize that is the ancestor of corn. | 19 | |
| 10478125463 | Fertile Crescent | the crescent-shaped area of arable land, that is considered the cradle of civilization | 20 | |
| 10478125464 | Göbekli Tepe | prehistoric site, one of the first civilizations, dating roughly 12000 years ago | 21 | |
| 10478125465 | Paleolithic settling down | The process by which some Paleolithic peoples moved toward permanent settlement in the wake of the last Ice Age. Settlement was marked by increasing storage of food and accumulation of goods as well as growing inequalities in society. | 22 | |
| 10478125466 | trance dance | nightlong ritual held to activate a human being's inner spiritual potency to counteract the evil influences of gods and ancestors | 23 | |
| 10478125467 | shamans | person believed to have the ability to act as a bridge between living humans and supernatural forces, often by means of trances induced by psychoactive drugs | 24 | |
| 10478125468 | "the original affluent society" | term used to describe the paleolithic era, not because they had so much stuff, but because they wanted and needed so little | 25 | |
| 10478125469 | Austronesian migrations | The last phase of the great human migration that established a human presence in every habitable region of the earth. These people settled the Pacific Islands & Madagascar in a series of seaborne migrations that began around 3500 years ago. | 26 | |
| 10478125470 | megafaunal extinction | Large or relatively large animals of a particular place or time period. Saber-toothed tigers and mastodons belong to the extinct megafauna of the Oligocene and Pleistocene Epochs. | 27 | |
| 10478125471 | Clovis Culture | a prehistoric Paleo-Indian culture, named after distinct stone tools found at sites near Clovis, New Mexico, in the 1920s and 1930s. | 28 | |
| 10478125472 | dreamtime | the ancient time of the creation of all things by sacred ancestors, whose spirits continue into the present, as conceived in the mythology of the Australian Aborigines. | 29 | |
| 10478125473 | Olmec civilization | earliest known major civilization in mexico | 30 | |
| 10478125474 | Code of Hammurabi | laws set in place by hammurabi governing mesopotamian life, society, and the economy | 31 | |
| 10478125475 | Epic of Gilgamesh | ancient mesopotamian epic poem describing gilgamesh's quest for immortality | 32 | |
| 10478125476 | Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa | Major cities of the Indus Valley civilization; both of which flourished around 2000 B.C.E. | 33 | |
| 10478125477 | uruk | The largest city of ancient Mesopotamia | 34 | |
| 10478125478 | Oxus Civilization | central Asia, impressive walls and gates; economy based on agriculture and stock raising; aristocratic social hierarchy; occasionally received goods from China, India, and Mesopotamia | 35 | |
| 10478125479 | Norte Chico | One of the first civilizations in the world. Norte Chico was very unique compared to other civilizations like Mesopotamia because it had very small cities, no economic specialization, an economy based on its rich fishing industry, and a special symbolic type of communication. | 36 | |
| 10478125480 | Indus Valley Civilization | A first civilization that did not built monuments not have warrior classes | 37 | |
| 10478125481 | chiefdoms | under the influence of a central power (the chief) this chief relies on status and persuasion to convince their followers to do something | 38 | |
| 10478125482 | Çatal Hüyük | example of early agricultural village society, where equality was still present and there were no set leaders. few inequalities, men and women were both allowed to do a variety of tasks | 39 | |
| 10478125483 | Venus figurines | Small Paleolithic statues of women with exaggerated sexual features. (religious) | 40 |
