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| 10604587043 | Ancient Egypt | A civilization concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River. Its history occurred in a series of stable Kingdoms, separated by periods of relative instability known as Intermediate Periods: the Old Kingdom, Middle Kingdom, and New Kingdom. | 0 | |
| 10604587044 | Aristocracy | A government in which power is in the hands of a hereditary ruling class or nobility | 1 | |
| 10604587045 | Barbarian | An uncivilized person | 2 | |
| 10604587046 | Book of the Dead | Scrolls that served as a guide for the afterlife in ancient Egypt | 3 | |
| 10604587047 | Brahmins | Priests, at the top of the caste system which the Aryans made | 4 | |
| 10604587048 | Bureaucracy | A system of managing government through departments run by appointed officials | 5 | |
| 10624194658 | Central Asian/Oxus civilization | A major First Civilization that emerged around 2200 B.C.E. in Central Asia along the Oxus or Amu Darya river in what is now northern Afghanistan. An important focal point for a Eurasian-wide system of intellectual and cultural exchange, it faded away about 1700 B.C.E. | 6 | |
| 10624194659 | Cities | Served as centers of trade, public performance, and political administration (for example Athens, Carthage, and Teotihucan) | 7 | |
| 10624194660 | civilizations/advanced societies | the stage of human social development and organization that is considered most advanced. | 8 | |
| 10624194661 | Code of Hammurabi | a written code of rules that guided the ancient society of Babylon; dates back to 1772 B.C. | 9 | |
| 10624194662 | Complex Institutions | law codes, religion, and an economy - they organized, united, and helped civilizations to prosper | 10 | |
| 10624194663 | Cuneiform | A system of writing in which wedge-shaped symbols represented words or syllables. It originated in Mesopotamia and was used initially for Sumerian and Akkadian but later was adapted to represent other languages of western Asia. | 11 | |
| 10624194664 | currency | a system of money in general use in a particular country. | 12 | |
| 10624194665 | Democracy | A political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them | 13 | |
| 10624194666 | Dharma | In Hindu belief, a person's religious and moral duties | 14 | |
| 10624194667 | Dynastic Cycle | rise and fall of Chinese dynasties according to the Mandate of Heaven | 15 | |
| 10624194668 | Epic of Gilgamesh | The most famous extant literary work from ancient Mesopotamia, it tells the story of one man's quest for immortality. | 16 | |
| 10624194669 | ethical/legal codes | A system of principles governing morality and acceptable conduct | 17 | |
| 10624194670 | Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia | A geographical area of fertile land in the Middle East stretching in a broad semicircle from the Nile to the Tigris and Euphrates | 18 | |
| 10624194671 | frontier | A zone separating two states in which neither state exercises political control. | 19 | |
| 10624194672 | Indus Valley | A civilization extending from what today is now Pakistan to northwest India and northeast Afghanistan. It flourished in the basins of the Indus River. At its peak it had a population of over five million. The Indus cities are noted for their urban planning, baked brick houses, elaborate drainage systems, water supply systems, and clusters of large non-residential buildings. | 20 | |
| 10624194673 | Karma | (Hinduism and Buddhism) the effects of a person's actions that determine his destiny in his next incarnation | 21 | |
| 10624194674 | Mandate of Heaven | in Chinese history, the divine approval thought to be the basis of royal authority | 22 | |
| 10624194675 | Mohenjo-Daro | Indus Valley city laid out in a grid pattern. Had a complex irrigation and sewer system. | 23 | |
| 10624194676 | Norte Chico/Caral | A region along the central coast of Peru, home of a civilization that developed in the period 3000-1800 B.C.E. Caral was the largest of some twenty-five urban centers that emerged in the area at that time. | 24 | |
| 10624194677 | Nubia | A civilization to the south of Egypt in the Nile Valley, noted for development of an alphabetic writing system and a major iron working industry by 500 BCE | 25 | |
| 10624194678 | Olmec | The first Mesoamerican civilization. Between ca. 1200 and 400 B.C.E., these people of central Mexico created a vibrant civilization that included intensive agriculture, wide-ranging trade, ceremonial centers, and monumental construction. | 26 | |
| 10624194679 | Recordkeeping | the process of setting up an organized system for financial and legal documents | 27 | |
| 10624194680 | Secular | Concerned with worldly rather than spiritual matters | 28 | |
| 10624194681 | Sericulture | the production of raw silk by raising silkworms | 29 | |
| 10624194682 | Shang and Zhou Dynasties | The first two Chinese dynasties | 30 | |
| 10624194683 | Slavery | A system of enforced servitude in which some people are owned by other people. | 31 | |
| 10624194684 | Specialization of Labor | The division of labor that aids the development of skills in a particular type of work | 32 | |
| 10624194685 | surplus | A situation in which quantity supplied is greater than quantity demanded | 33 | |
| 10624194686 | Syncretism | a blending of beliefs and practices from different religions into one faith | 34 | |
| 10624194687 | Teotihuacan | first major metropolis in Mesoamerica, collapsed around 800 CE. It is most remembered for the gigantic "pyramid of the sun". | 35 | |
| 10624194688 | Textiles | a type of cloth or woven fabric | 36 | |
| 10624194689 | Theocracy | government run by religious leaders | 37 | |
| 10624194690 | Tigris and Euphrates | two rivers that form the outside border of Mesopotamia | 38 | |
| 10624194691 | Uruk | A Large Sumerian city-state in Mesopotamia. | 39 | |
| 10624194692 | Ziggurats | temples built by Sumerians to honor the gods and goddesses they worshipped | 40 |
