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| 7328113551 | Austronesian migrations | The last phase of the great human migration that established a human presence in every habitable region of the earth.Austronesian-speaking people settled the Pacific islands and Madagascar in a series of seaborne migrations that began around 3,500 years ago. |  | 0 |
| 7328136508 | Bantu migration | The spread of Bantu-speaking peoples from their homeland in what is now southern Nigeria or Cameroon to most of Africa, in a process that started ca. 3000 B.C.E. and continued for several millennia. |  | 1 |
| 7328157690 | Çatalhüyük | An important Neolithic site in what is now Turkey. |  | 2 |
| 7328164122 | chiefdom | A societal grouping governed by a chief who typically relies on generosity, ritual status, or charisma rather than force to win obedience from people. |  | 3 |
| 7328186292 | Clovis culture | The earliest widespread and distinctive culture of North America; named from the Clovis point, a particular kind of projectile point. |  | 4 |
| 7328201055 | diffusion | The gradual spread of agricultural techniques without extensive population movement. |  | 5 |
| 7328238761 | Dreamtime | A complex worldview of Australia's Aboriginal people that held that current humans live in a vibration or echo of ancestral happenings |  | 6 |
| 7328245140 | Fertile Crescent | Region sometimes known as Southwest Asia that includes the modern states of Iraq, Syria, Israel/Palestine, and southern Turkey; the earliest home of agriculture. |  | 7 |
| 7328245141 | Göbekli Tepe | A ceremonial site comprising 20 circles made up of carved limestone pillars located in southeastern Turkey. The site, which dates to 11,600 years ago, was built by gatherer hunters who lived at least part of the year in settled villages |  | 8 |
| 7328265186 | megafaunal extinction | : Dying out of a number of large animal species, including the mammoth and several species of horses and camels, that occurred around 11,000-10,000 years ago, at the end of the Ice Age. The extinction may have been caused by excessive hunting or by the changing climate of the era. |  | 9 |
| 7328273749 | "the original affluent society" | Term coined by the scholar Marshall Sahlins in 1972 to describe Paleolithic societies, which he regarded as affluent not because they had so much but because they wanted or needed so little. |  | 10 |
| 7328284494 | Paleolithic settling down | The process by which some Paleolithic peoples moved toward permanent settlement in the wake of the last Ice Age. Settlement was marked by increasing storage of food and accumulation of goods as well as growing inequalities in society. |  | 11 |
| 7328297811 | pastoral society | A human society that relies on domesticated animals rather than plants as the main source of food; pastoral nomads lead their animals to seasonal grazing grounds rather than settling permanently in a single location. |  | 12 |
| 7328306442 | "secondary products revolution" | A term used todescribe the series of technological changes that began ca. 4000 B.C.E., as people began to develop new uses for their domesticated animals, exploiting a revolutionary new source of power |  | 13 |
| 7328313316 | shaman | In many early societies, a person believed to have the ability to act as a bridge between living humans and supernatural forces, often by means of trances induced by psychoactive drugs |  | 14 |
| 7328325124 | stateless societies | Village-based agricultural societies, usually organized by kinship groups, that functioned without a formal government apparatus. |  | 15 |
| 7328340307 | teosinte | The wild ancestor of maize |  | 16 |
| 7328347505 | trance dance | In San culture, a nightlong ritual held to activate a human being's inner spiritual potency (n/um) to counteract the evil influences of gods and ancestors. |  | 17 |
| 7328358882 | Venus figurines | Paleolithic carvings of the female form, often with exaggerated breasts, buttocks, hips, and stomachs, which may have had religious significance. |  | 18 |
| 7349993388 | Bipedalism | a form of terrestrial locomotion where an organism moves by means of its two rear limbs or legs. |  | 19 |
| 7350002883 | Division of labor | the assignment of different parts of a manufacturing process or task to different people in order to improve efficiency. |  | 20 |
| 7350004296 | Cultural diffusion | The spread of cultural beliefs from one group to another |  | 21 |
| 7350007545 | "fire-stick" farming | the practice of Indigenous Australians who regularly used fire to burn vegetation to facilitate hunting and to change the composition of plant and animal species in an area. |  | 22 |
| 7350011362 | Neolithic Revolution | the wide-scale transition of many human cultures from a lifestyle of hunting and gathering to one of agriculture and settlement, |  | 23 |
| 7350014520 | Paleolithic Age | The cultural period of the Stone Age that began about 2.5 to 2 million years ago, marked by the earliest use of tools made of chipped stone. |  | 24 |
| 7350017079 | egalitarian | relating to or believing in the principle that all people are equal and deserve equal rights and opportunities. |  | 25 |
| 7350020025 | Collective Learning | a complex concept that is variously defined. |  | 26 |
| 7350022980 | Collaboration | to work together to create something |  | 27 |
| 7350025808 | abstract thinking | Thinking characterized by the ability to use concepts and to make and understand generalizations |  | 28 |
| 7350029435 | Kinship | blood relationship |  | 29 |
| 7350032739 | Latitiude | the angular distance of a place north or south of the earth's equator |  | 30 |
| 7350034372 | Equator | an imaginary line drawn around the earth equally distant from both poles | | 31 |
| 7350035749 | Longitude | the angular distance of a place east or west of the meridian at Greenwich, England |  | 32 |
| 7350037532 | Prime Meridian | A prime meridian is a meridian in a geographical coordinate system at which longitude is defined to be 0° |  | 33 |
| 7352888067 | Asia | Earth's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the Eastern and Northern Hemispheres. |  | 34 |
| 7352899589 | Europe | a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere |  | 35 |
| 7352905758 | Africa | the world's second-largest and second-most-populous continent |  | 36 |
| 7352913915 | North America | a continent entirely within the Northern Hemisphere and almost all within the Western Hemisphere |  | 37 |
| 7352918029 | south america | a continent located in the western hemisphere, mostly in the southern hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the northern hemisphere |  | 38 |
| 7352923485 | Antarctica | the southernmost continent and site of the South Pole |  | 39 |
| 7352929675 | Australia | a country and continent surrounded by the Indian and Pacific oceans |  | 40 |
| 7352943063 | Atlantic | the second largest of the world's oceans |  | 41 |
| 7352950203 | pacific | he largest and deepest of Earth's oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean in the south |  | 42 |
| 7352955436 | Indian | the third largest of the world's oceanic divisions |  | 43 |
| 7352958658 | Arctic | the smallest and shallowest of the world's five major oceans |  | 44 |
| 7352964642 | Caribbean Sea | a sea of the Atlantic Ocean in the tropics of the Western Hemisphere |  | 45 |
| 7352969900 | Mediterranean Sea | a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin |  | 46 |
| 7352974719 | Sea of Japan | a marginal sea between the Japanese archipelago, Sakhalin, and the Asian mainland. |  | 47 |
| 7352979683 | East China Sea | a marginal sea east of China, The East China Sea is a part of the Pacific Ocean |  | 48 |
| 7352989575 | South China Sea | a marginal sea that is part of the Pacific Ocean |  | 49 |
| 7352996889 | yellow sea | the name given to the northern part of the East China Sea, which is a marginal sea of the Pacific Ocean |  | 50 |
| 7353001603 | black sea | a body of water and marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean |  | 51 |
| 7353013729 | Nile | a major north-flowing river in northeastern Africa |  | 52 |
| 7353020516 | Tigris & Euphrates | a major river system in Western Asia |  | 53 |
| 7353027906 | Mississippi | the chief river of the second-largest drainage system on the North American continent |  | 54 |
| 7353035887 | Indus | a major south-flowing river in South Asia |  | 55 |
| 7353042509 | Ganges | a trans-boundary river of Asia | | 56 |
| 7353049505 | Huang Ho (aka. Yellow River) | is the third longest river in Asia |  | 57 |
| 7353055991 | Yangtze | the longest river in Asia and the third-longest in the world |  | 58 |
| 7353061165 | Volga | the longest river in Europe, it is also Europe's largest river |  | 59 |
| 7353067163 | Danube | Europe's second-longest river |  | 60 |
| 7353075865 | Rhine | a European river that begins in the Swiss canton of Graubünden in the southeastern Swiss Alps |  | 61 |
| 7353075866 | amazon | the largest river in south america |  | 62 |
