Chapter 1 from the AP World Civilizations textbook written by Stearns (From Human Prehistory to the Early Civilizations) *NOT YET DONE*
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| 253174131 | Sumerians | people who migrated into Mesopotamia ca. 4000 B.C.E.; created the first civilization within region; organized area into city-states. | 0 | |
| 253174132 | matrilineal | family descent and inheritance traced through the female line. | 1 | |
| 253174133 | polygamy | Marriage practice in which one husband had several wives; practiced in Aryan society | 2 | |
| 253174134 | Aztecs | The Mexica; one of the nomadic tribes that penetrated into the sedentary zone of the Mesoamerican plateau after the fall of the Toltecs; established empire after 1325 around shores of Lake Texcoco. | 3 | |
| 253174135 | Sargon I | Ruler of city-state of Akkad; established the first empire in Mesopotamian civilization c. 2400 b.c.e. | 4 | |
| 253174136 | polis | city-state form of government typical of Greek political organization from 800 to 400 B.C.E. (pl. poleis) | 5 | |
| 253174137 | totalitarian state | A new kind of government in the 20th century that exercised massive, direct control over virtually all the activities of its subjects; existed in Germany, Italy, and the Soviet Union. | 6 | |
| 253174138 | Narmer | First pharaoh of Egyptian Old Kingdom; ruled circa 3,100 BCE | 7 | |
| 253174139 | culture | Combinations of the ideas, objects, and patterns of behavior that result from human social interaction | 8 | |
| 253174140 | Paleolithic Age | The Old Stone Age (ending in 12,000 BCE); typified by use of crude stone tools and hunting and gathering for subsistence. | 9 | |
| 253174141 | pyramids | monumental architecture typical of Old Kingdom Egypt; used as burial sites for pharaohs. | 10 | |
| 253174142 | hieroglyphs | The form of writing developed in ancient Egypt; more pictoral than Mesopotamian cuneiform. | 11 |
