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| 7246634039 | civilization | a society in an advanced state of social development (e.g., with complex legal and political and religious organizations) | 0 | |
| 7246634040 | culture | the enduring behaviors, ideas, attitudes, and traditions shared by a large group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next | 1 | |
| 7246634041 | history | study of past events and changes in the development, transmission, and transformation of cultural practices. | 2 | |
| 7246634042 | stone age | (archeology) the earliest known period of human culture, characterized by the use of stone implements | 3 | |
| 7246634043 | 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 | 4 | |
| 7246634044 | neolithic | latest part of the Stone Age beginning about 10,000 BC in the middle east (but later elsewhere) | 5 | |
| 7246634045 | hunter gathers | people who support themselves by hunting wild animals and gathering wild edible plants and insects | 6 | |
| 7246634046 | first agricultural revolution | the change from food gathering to food productions that occurred between ca. 8000 and 2000 B.C.E. Also known as the Neolithic Revolution. | 7 | |
| 7246634047 | megalith | memorial consisting of a very large stone forming part of a prehistoric structure (especially in western Europe) | 8 | |
| 7246634048 | sumerians | People who dominated Southern Mesopotamia through the end of the 3rd Millennium BCE. Responsible for the creation of irrigation technology, cunieform, and religious conceptions. | 9 | |
| 7246634049 | semitic | family of related langugages long spoken across parts of western asia and northern africa. in intiquity these languages included hebrew, aramaic, and phoenician. The most widespead modern member of the semitic family is arabic. | 10 | |
| 7246634050 | city-state | small independent state consisting of an urban center and the surrounding agricultural territory. a characteristic political form in early mesopotamia, archaic and classical greece, phoenicia, and early italy. | 11 | |
| 7246634051 | hammurabi | Amorite ruler of Babylon (r. 1792-1750 B.C.E.). He conquered many city-states in southern and northern Mesopotamia and is best known for a code of laws, inscribed on a black stone pillar, illustrating the principles to be used in legal cases. (p. 34) | 12 | |
| 7246634052 | scribe | in the governments of many ancient societies, a professinal position reserved for men who had undergone the lengthy training required to be able to read and write uniting cuneiforms, hieroglyphics, and other early, cumbersome writing systems. | 13 | |
| 7246634054 | cuneiform | an ancient wedge-shaped script used in Mesopotamia and Persia | 14 | |
| 7246634055 | pharoah | Egyptian ruler who was believed to be the son of Re, the sun god, in human form. He had total authority over people and land. | 15 | |
| 7246634056 | pyramid | a massive memorial with a square base and four triangular sides | 16 | |
| 7246634057 | hieroglyphics | an ancient Egyptian writing system in which pictures were used to represent ideas and sounds | 17 | |
| 7246634058 | papyrus | ancient paper made from stem of papyrus plant | 18 | |
| 7246634059 | mummy | The dead body of a human or animal that has been embalmed and prepared for burial, as according to the practices of the ancient Egyptians. | 19 | |
| 7246634060 | harappa | Site of one of the great cities of the Indus Valley civilization of the third millennium B.C.E. It was located on the northwest frontier of the zone of cultivation , and may have been a center for the acquisition of raw materials. (p. 48) | 20 | |
| 7246634061 | monhenjo-daro | largest of the cities of the indus valley civilization. it was centrally located in the extensive flood plain of the indus river in contemporary pakistan. little is known about the political institutions of indus calley communities, but the large-scale of construction at mohenjo-daro, the orderly grid of streets, and the standardization of building materials are evidence of central plamning. | 21 | |
| 7246634062 | Iron Age | the period following the Bronze Age; characterized by rapid spread of iron tools and weapons | 22 | |
| 7246634064 | Mass deportation | Removal of entire peoples used as terror tactic by Assyrian and Persian Empires. (95) | 23 | |
| 7246634065 | Israel | an ancient kingdom of the Hebrew tribes at the southeastern end of the Mediterranean Sea | 24 | |
| 7246634066 | First Temple | A monumental sanctuary built in Jerusalem by King Solomon in the tenth century B.C.E. to be the religious center for the Israelite god Yahweh. The Temple priesthood conducted sacrifices, received a tithe or percentage of agricultural revenues. (102) | 25 | |
| 7246634067 | monotheism | belief in a single God | 26 | |
| 7246634068 | Diaspora | the dispersion or spreading of something that was originally localized (as a people or language or culture) | 27 | |
| 7246634069 | Phoenicians | Semitic-speaking Canaanites living on the coast of modern Lebanon and Syria in the first millennium B.C.E. From major cities such as Tyre and Sidon, Phoenician merchants and sailors explored the Mediterranean, and engaged in widespread commerce. (103) | 28 | |
| 7246634071 | Loess | a fine-grained unstratified accumulation of clay and silt deposited by the wind | 29 | |
| 7246634072 | Shang | The dominant people in the earliest Chinese dynasty for which we have written records (ca. 1750-1027 B.C.E.). Ancestor worship, divination by means of oracle bones, and the use of bronze vessels for ritual purposes were major elements of Shang culture. | 30 | |
| 7246634073 | Divination | a prediction uttered under divine inspiration | 31 | |
| 7246634074 | Zhou | The people and dynasty that took over the dominant position in north China from the Shang and created the concept of the Mandate of Heaven to justify their rule. Remembered as prosperous era in Chinese History. (p. 61) | 32 | |
| 7246634075 | Mandate of heaven | a political theory of ancient China in which those in power were given the right to rule from a divine source | 33 | |
| 7246634076 | Legalism | strict conformity to the letter of the law rather than its spirit | 34 | |
| 7246634077 | Confucius | chinese philospher and teacher; his belifs,known as confusoinism greatly influenced chinese life | 35 | |
| 7246634078 | Daoism | philosophical system developed by of Lao-tzu and Chuang-tzu advocating a simple honest life and noninterference with the course of natural events | 36 | |
| 7246634079 | yin yang | the representations of balance and harmony, symbol of Taoists; YIN=feminine, dark, cold, negativity YANG=masculine, light, heat, motivation | 37 | |
| 7246634080 | Kush | An African state that developed along the upper reaches of the Nile c. 100 B.C.E.; conquered Egypt and ruled it for several centuries. | 38 | |
| 7246634081 | Meroe | center of the kush dynasty from about 250 B.C. to A.D. 150; known for its manufacture of iron weapons and tools. | 39 | |
| 7246634084 | Llama | wild or domesticated South American cud-chewing animal related to camels but smaller and lacking a hump | 40 | |
| 7246752915 | cultural diffusion | spread of cultural beliefs and social activities from one group to another | 41 | |
| 7246773891 | technological diffusion | Diffusion of innovations is a theory that seeks to explain how, why, and at what rate new ideas and technology spread | 42 | |
| 7246778950 | biological diffusion | the wide spread of different organisms | 43 | |
| 7246862250 | chiefdoms | 44 | ||
| 7246881146 | pastoral societies | 45 |
