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| 550383860 | 14,000 B.C.E. | End of Great Ice Age | 0 | |
| 550383861 | 6,000 B.C.E. | First potter's wheel. | 1 | |
| 550383862 | 10,000-5,000 B.C.E. | era of Neolithic revolution | 2 | |
| 550383863 | 7,000 B.C.E. | rise of Catal Huyuk | 3 | |
| 550383864 | 4,000 B.C.E. | transition to use of bronze | 4 | |
| 550383865 | 2,000 B.C.E. | agricultural development reaches west Africa | 5 | |
| 550383866 | hunting and gathering | The process of living that involves hunting for meat, gathering edible produce, and traveling frequently. | 6 | |
| 550383867 | Neolithic Age | The New stone age which went from about 8000 B.C to 3000 B.C. People who lived during this learned to polish stone tools, make pottery, grow crops, and raise animals. | 7 | |
| 550383868 | culture | the attitudes and behavior that are characteristic of a particular social group or organization | 8 | |
| 550383869 | band | an unofficial association of people or groups | 9 | |
| 550383870 | matrilocal | refers to the pattern in which married couples live with or near the wives' parents | 10 | |
| 550383871 | Catal Huyuk | One of first true cities in history, created in the Neolithic Era in 6500 to 5500 BC, from which were created agriculture, trading, temples, housing, and religions | 11 | |
| 550383872 | Bronze Age | a period of human culture between the Stone Age and the Iron Age, characterized by the use of weapons and implements made of bronze | 12 | |
| 550383873 | slash and burn agriculture | a farming technique in which trees are cut down and burned to clear and fertilize the land | 13 | |
| 550383874 | Hammurabi | king of the Babylonian empire; creator of the Code of Hammurabi, one of the world's oldest codes of law. | 14 | |
| 550383875 | Indo-Europeans | Series of tribes from southern Russia who, over a period of millennia, embarked on a series of migrations from India through western Europe; their greatest legacy was the broad distribution of Indo-European languages throughout Eurasia. | 15 | |
| 550383876 | civilization | a society in an advanced state of social development (e.g., with complex legal and political and religious organizations) | 16 | |
| 550383877 | nomads | people with no permanent home; move from place to place in search of food, | 17 | |
| 550383878 | Homo sapiens | A species of the creatures Hominid who have larger brains and to which humans belong, dependent of language and usage of tools. | 18 | |
| 550383879 | agrarian revolution | occurred between 8000 and 5000 B.C.E.; transition from hunting and gathering to sedentary agriculture | 19 | |
| 550383880 | matrilineal | based on or tracing descent through the female line | 20 | |
| 550383881 | Neolithic revolution | the shift from hunting of animals and gathering of food to the keeping of animals and the growing of food on a regular basis around 8,000 BC | 21 | |
| 550383882 | domestication | the taming of animals for human use, such as work or as food | 22 | |
| 550383883 | Babylonians | an ancient empire of Mesopotamia in the Euphrates River valley. It flourished under Hammurabi and Nebuchadnezzar II but declined after 562 B.C. and fell to the Persians in 539. | 23 | |
| 550383884 | 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. | 24 | |
| 550383885 | Mesopotamia | first civilization located between the Tigris & Eurphrates Rivers in present day Iraq; term means "land between the rivers;" Sumerian culture | 25 | |
| 550383886 | 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 | 26 | |
| 550383887 | savage | a member of an uncivilized people | 27 | |
| 550383888 | Neanderthals | type of Homo sapiens; lived from 100,000 BC to 30,000 BC; made tools and animal skin clothes; first people to bury the dead | 28 | |
| 550383889 | Natufian complex | Preagriculture culture; located in present-day Israel, Jordan, and Lebanon; practiced the collection of naturally present barley and wheat to supplement game; typified by large settlement sites. | 29 | |
| 550383890 | pastoralism | A type of agricultural activity based on nomadic animal husbandry or the raising of livestock to provide food, clothing, and shelter. | 30 | |
| 550383891 | Jericho | Oldest Neolithic community in the West Bank between Israel and Jordan | 31 | |
| 550383892 | social differentiation | A process in which people are set apart for differential treatment by virtue of their statuses, roles, and other social characteristics | 32 | |
| 550383893 | ideographs | pictographic characters grouped together to create new concepts; typical of Chinese writing | 33 | |
| 550383894 | Shang dynasty | the imperial dynasty ruling China from about the 18th to the 12th centuries BC | 34 |
