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| 6051919059 | Babylonians | extended their empire and helped bring civilization to other parts of the Middle East; famous for Hammurabi's Law Code | 0 | |
| 6051919060 | 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 | 1 | |
| 6051919061 | 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. | 2 | |
| 6051919062 | 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. | 3 | |
| 6051919063 | Homo sapiens sapiens | Also known as "early modern humans" who became the only hominids on earth- us. | 4 | |
| 6051919064 | Huanghe (Yellow River) | is the third-longest river in Asia | 5 | |
| 6051919065 | Indus River | A river that flows from Tibet, through the Himalayas and Hindu Kush into the Arabian Sea. | 6 | |
| 6051919066 | Kush | An ancient civilization in Africa. It is often referred to as Nubia and was similar to Ancient Egypt in many aspects including government, culture, and religion. In battle, Kush was famous for its archers. One of the most famous Kushite leaders was Piye who conquered Egypt and became pharaoh. | 7 | |
| 6051919067 | 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. | 8 | |
| 6051919068 | Mesopotamia | A region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers that developed the first urban societies. In the Bronze Age this area included Sumer and the Akkadian, Babylonian and Assyrian empires, In the Iron Age, it was ruled by the Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian empires. | 9 | |
| 6051919069 | Mohenjo Daro | A major city of the Indus valley civilization; flourished around 2000 BCE | 10 | |
| 6051919070 | Neolithic Age | "New Stone Age"; About 10,000 years ago marked by advances in the production of stone tools. Shift from hunting and gathering to agriculture | 11 | |
| 6051919071 | Neolithic revolution | (10,000 - 8,000 BCE) The development of agriculture and the domestication of animals as a food source. This led to the development of permanent settlements and the start of civilization. | 12 | |
| 6051919072 | Paleolithic Age | (750,000 BCE - 10,000 B.C.E.) Old Stone Age. A period of time in human history characterized by the use of stone tools and the use of hunting and gathering as a food source. | 13 | |
| 6051919073 | Phoenicians | Semitic-speaking Canaanites living on the coast of modern Lebanon and Syria in the first millennium B.C.E. Famous for developing the first alphabet, which was adopted by the Greeks. From major cities such as Tyre and Sidon, these merchants and sailors explored the Mediterranean, and engaged in widespread commerce. | 14 | |
| 6051919074 | 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 this culture. | 15 | |
| 6051919075 | Sumerians | people who dominated Southern Mesopotamia through the end of the 3rd Millennium BCE. Responsible for the creation of irrigation technology, cuneiform, and religious conceptions. | 16 | |
| 6051919076 | city-states | a city that is completely independent from other cities, complete with its own form of government and laws but still shares cultural similarities with a larger civilization. | 17 | |
| 6051919077 | civilization | A society with cities, a central government, job specialization, and social classes | 18 | |
| 6051919078 | cuneiform | A form of writing developed by the Sumerians using a wedge shaped stylus and clay tablets. | 19 | |
| 6051919079 | hunting and gathering | the killing of wild animals and fish as well as the gathering of fruits, roots, nuts, and other plants for sustenance | 20 | |
| 6051919080 | ideographic | Early Chinese writing revolving around symbols. | 21 | |
| 6051919081 | monotheism | The belief in and worship of only one God | 22 | |
| 6051919082 | nomads | having no fixed home, moving from place to place in search of food, water, or grazing land | 23 | |
| 6051919083 | pharoah | a king of ancient Egypt, considered a god as well as a political leader | 24 | |
| 6051919084 | pyramids | The Sumerians, Egyptians, and Americans all built different types of this kind of structure because they all had a heavily centralized governments with emperors who were seen as closely tied to religion or were even seen as gods. | 25 | |
| 6051919085 | slash and burn agriculture | a farming technique in which trees are cut down and burned to clear and fertilize the land | 26 | |
| 6051919086 | ziggurats | temples built by Sumerians to honor the gods and goddesses they worshipped | 27 | |
| 6051919087 | Çatal Hüyük | 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 | 28 |
