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| 5467718509 | Homo Sapiens | The humanoid species that emerged as most successful at the end of the Paleolithic period | 0 | |
| 5467718510 | Neolithic Stone Age | The New Stone Age between 8000 and 5000 B.C.E.; period in which adaptation of sedentary agriculture occurred; domestication of plats and animals accomplished | 1 | |
| 5467718511 | Paleolithic Stone Age | The Old Stone Age ending in 12,000 B.C.E.; typified by use of crude stone tools and hunting and gathering for subsistence | 2 | |
| 5467718512 | Bronze Age | From about 4000 B.C.E., when bronze tools were first introduced in the Middle East, to about 1500 B.C.E., when iron began to replace it | 3 | |
| 5467718513 | Slash and burn agriculture | A version of harvesting where you slash and burn | 4 | |
| 5467718514 | Cuneiform | A form of writing developed by the Sumerians using a wedge-shaped stylus and clay tablets | 5 | |
| 5467718515 | Sumerians | People who migrated into Mesopotamia C. 4000 B.C.E; created first civilization within region; organized area into city-states | 6 | |
| 5467718516 | Ziggurats | Massive towers usually associated with Mesopotamian temple complexes | 7 | |
| 5467718517 | Babylonian Empire | Unified all of Mesopotamia C. 1800 B.C.E.; collapsed due to foreign invasion C. 1600 B.C.E. | 8 | |
| 5467718518 | Hammurabi | The most important ruler of the Babylonian empire; responsible for codification of law | 9 | |
| 5467718519 | Shang | First Chinese dynasty for which archeological evidence exists; capital located in Ordos bulge of the Huanghe; flourished 1600 to 1046 B.C.E. | 10 | |
| 5467718520 | Ideographs | Pictographic characters grouped together to create new concepts; typical of Chinese writing | 11 | |
| 5467718521 | Monotheism | The exclusive worship of a single god; introduced by the Jews into Western civilization | 12 |
