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| 4757062571 | Austronesian Migrations | the spread of the Austronesian speaking people that settled in the Pacific Islands and Madagascar by their seaborne migration around 3500 years ago | 0 | |
| 4759239050 | Banpo | an ancient city, near present-day city of Xian, they eat wild plants, animals, and fish; it had about 500 people and more than 200 storage pits; it was discovered in 1953 and revealed another example of the explosion of technological innovation | 1 | |
| 4759243783 | Bantu Migration | the spread of Bantu speaking people from their homeland (present day Southern Nigeria and Cameroon) to most of Africa. started in 3000 B.C.E. and continued for several millennia; they absorbed, killed, or drove away the indigenous Paleolithic people or exposed them to animal-borne diseases | 2 | |
| 4759250978 | Çatalhöyük | early urban culture based on sedentary agriculture, located in modern day southern Turkey; largest and best preserved Neolithic site found to date | 3 | |
| 4759253929 | Chiefdom | all around the world and after 6000 B.C.E. , chiefs inherited their positions of power and privileges in politically organized societies ; chiefs used generosity, their ritual status, or charisma to govern; led rituals/ceremonies, resolved conflicts, collected tribute (food and material) to distribute, etc. | 4 | |
| 4759263141 | Clovis culture | the first clearly defined and wide-spread cultural tradition in the Americas | 5 | |
| 4759264590 | Diffusion | the gradual spread of religion, ideas, food, etc. (without extensive population movement) to other parts of the world | 6 | |
| 4759269652 | Dreamtime | an elaborate and complex outlook on the world; myths, legends, and stories, reflecting aboriginal understandings of the world. arrival about 6000 years ago from Australian aborigines (still practiced today) | 7 | |
| 4759284398 | Fertile Crescent | a crescent shaped piece of land that has rich soil that is good for agriculture in the modern states of Iraq, Syria, Israel, and southern Turkey; most productive of all agricultural societies | 8 | |
| 4759287778 | Flores Man | a recently discovered human-like species in Indonesia during the Paleolithic time period | 9 | |
| 4759292448 | Göbekli Tepe | oldest religious structure made by hunters and gatherers around 11,600 years ago (a ceremonial site); worlds oldest temple | 10 | |
| 4759914153 | Ishi | the last surviving member of a hunter and gatherer group called the Yahi in California | 11 | |
| 4759915436 | Megafaunal extinction | around 11,000 to 10,000 years ago, a lot of large animal species, including mammoths, some species of horsed and camels, etc., began dying out | 12 | |
| 4759920148 | "the original affluent society" | term used to describe the Paleolithic era; not because they had so much but because they wanted or needed so little to survive | 13 | |
| 4759925010 | Paleolithic settling down | process where some Paleolithic people moved toward permanent settlements during the wake of the last Ice Age; settlements marked by higher storage of food and accumulation of goods and inequality growing in societies | 14 | |
| 4759931843 | Pastoral society | a human society that depends on domesticated animals rather than plants as their main source of food | 15 | |
| 4759934457 | "secondary products revolution" | a term used to describe a series of technological changed that began c.a. 4000 B.C.E. | 16 | |
| 4759936614 | Shaman | In Paleolithic settlements, part-time religious specialists or priests were people that were believed to be good at dealing with the spirit world. they were needed to perform extended rituals and burials throughout the world, they entered altered states of trances or consciousness while performing these ceremonies | 17 | |
| 4759940953 | Stateless societies | village-based societies usually organized by groups that functioned without a formal government | 18 | |
| 4759945412 | Teosinte | the ancestor of modern day corn | 19 | |
| 4759946050 | Trance Dance | a night long ritual that was held to activate a human's inner spiritual potential. used to counteract the evil influences of gods and ancestors. used around 26,000 years ago and is still done today | 20 | |
| 4759948827 | Venus Figurines | Paleolithic carvings of the female form, with exaggerated features, carved from stone, antlers, mammoth tusks, or baked clay | 21 |
