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| 4830190498 | Paeleolithic Period | A period in prehistory which lasted from 2.5 million years ago until 8000 B.C.E. and is also called the Stone Age, because stone tools and weapons were widely used for the hunter-forager societies, who had animistic beliefs and first discovered fire. |  | 0 |
| 4830191583 | Specialization of Labor | The process in the Neolithic Revolution which happened after cities grew and they had a surplus of food, when people began to work in areas other than basic survival and food-gathering. |  | 1 |
| 7105172825 | Artisans | People who made objects people needed, such as woven clothe or pottery. |  | 2 |
| 7105175750 | Clan | A very extended family made of many kinship groups. |  | 3 |
| 7105237697 | Textiles | Items made of cloth. |  | 4 |
| 7105243831 | Neolithic Revolution | The switch from nomadic lifestyles to a settled agricultural lifestyle, which allowed for specialization of labor, complex governments, technological advances and new religions. |  | 5 |
| 7105259284 | Hunter-forager | People who hunted animals and foraged for fruit, edible roots, seeds and nuts around them. |  | 6 |
| 7105261507 | Merchants | People who were in the practice of buying, selling and trading goods. |  | 7 |
| 7105262840 | Tribe | Multiple clans (very extended families) united together. |  | 8 |
| 7105264096 | Jericho | One of mankind's first cities, built on the west bank of the Jordan River. |  | 9 |
| 7105288276 | Monotheism | The belief in only one deity. |  | 10 |
| 7105290579 | Nomadic pastoralism | Moving animals from pasture to pasture to raise them for their milk and/or meat or other animal products. |  | 11 |
| 7105294069 | Social stratification | A caste system with classes of society, like that exemplified in Hindu beliefs where Brahmin is the highest Varna/class or Neolithic societies, where the merchants were high on the social ladder. |  | 12 |
| 7105299650 | Artifacts | Objects of historical significance which can tell us a lot about their time periods. |  | 13 |
| 7105301216 | Catal Huyuk | One of the first human cities, located in modern-day Turkey near a river that is now dried up. |  | 14 |
| 7105304450 | Bronze Age | The beginning of the use of a strong combination of copper and tin for many uses, which began between 3300 and 2300 B.C.E. |  | 15 |
| 7105313619 | Patriarchal | A society where men dominated. |  | 16 |
| 7105314418 | Kinship group | a partially extended family of 20-40 people. |  | 17 |
| 7105316796 | Homo sapiens sapiens | The scientific name for humans. |  | 18 |
| 7105317429 | Overfarming | When land is repeatedly farmed so that the soil nutrients are depleted. |  | 19 |
| 7105318691 | Overgrazing | When animals eat too much of the plant cover in one area and erosion and desertification follow. |  | 20 |
