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| 248711187 | Cultural Diffusion | Sharing of knowledge and goods with other groups; ideas or technology are exchanged | 0 | |
| 248711188 | Demography | the branch of sociology that studies the characteristics of human populations | 1 | |
| 248711189 | Intervening Obstacles | something that halts or slows migration from one area to another | 2 | |
| 248711190 | Neolithic Revolution | The changeover from food gathering to food producing; change from hunting and gathering to growing food | 3 | |
| 248711191 | Polytheism | The belief in and worship of many gods. | 4 | |
| 248711192 | Specialization of Labor | The division of labor that aids the development of skills in a particular type of work | 5 | |
| 248711193 | Cuneiform | A system of writing originating in Mesopotamia in which wedge-shaped symbols represented words or syllables (Sumerians) | 6 | |
| 248711194 | 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 | 7 | |
| 248711195 | 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 | 8 | |
| 248711196 | Marker Events | Events that change the course of history; change the way we look at our world or history; invention of writing | 9 | |
| 248711197 | Division of Labor | A manufacturing technique that breaks down a craft into many simple and repetitive tasks that can be performed by unskilled workers | 10 | |
| 248711198 | Migrations | Permanent moves to new locations | 11 | |
| 248711199 | Push Factor | Encourages people to move; persecution, disease, or crop failure | 12 | |
| 248711200 | Pull Factor | Attracts them to a new region; promise of freedom or better farmland | 13 | |
| 248711201 | City-state | A small independent state consisting of an urban center and the surrounding agricultural territory | 14 | |
| 248711202 | Ziggurat | A massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mud bricks. Was at the center of Sumerian city-states and had a religious function | 15 | |
| 248711203 | Periodization | an act or instance of dividing a subject into historical eras for purposes of analysis and study | 16 | |
| 248711204 | Mohenjo-Daro | Indus Valley city laid out in a grid pattern. Had a complex irrigation and sewer system, one of the first settlements in India | 17 | |
| 248711205 | Independent Invention | the term for a trait with many cultural hearths that developed independent of each other | 18 | |
| 248711206 | Pharaoh | The central figure in the ancient Egyptian state. Believed to be and earthly manifestation of the gods, used his power to maintain safety and prosperity of Egypt; is a New Kingdom term that means "royal house" | 19 | |
| 248711207 | Aryans | Indo-European speaking nomads who entered India from the Central Asian steppes between 1500 and 1000 BC and greatly affected Indian society. | 20 | |
| 248711208 | Mandate of Heaven | Chinese religious and political ideology developed by the Zhou, was the prerogative of Heaven, the chief deity, to grant power to the ruler of China; used by the Zhou to justify their seizure of Shang power | 21 | |
| 248711209 | Horticulture | the cultivation of plants | 22 | |
| 248711210 | Hammurabi | King of the Babylonian empire; creator of the Code of Hammurabi, one of the world's oldest codes of law. | 23 | |
| 248711211 | Hieroglyphics | A system of writing in which pictorial symbols represented sounds, syllables, or concepts (Egyptian) | 24 | |
| 248711212 | Dravidians | survivors of the Indus Valley civilization; the people that the Aryans conquered, one of the main groups of people in India; probably descended from the Indus River culture that flourished at the dawn of Indian civilization over 4,000 yrs. ago | 25 | |
| 248711213 | Monsoon | seasonal winds in the Indian Ocean. The large amounts of rainfall that they deposit on parts of India, Southeast Asia, and China allow for the cultivation of several crops a year; are sometimes wet and sometimes dry | 26 |
