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| 10477677634 | Tigris and Euphrates River Valley location | Southwest Asia (modern day Turkey through Iraq) | 0 | |
| 10477679333 | Nile River Valley location | Africa, flows into Mediterranean sea | 1 | |
| 10477682777 | Huang He and Chiang Jiang (Yangtze) River Valley Location | eastern China | 2 | |
| 10477686955 | Indus River Valley Location | India | 3 | |
| 10477689301 | Polytheistic | Worshipping many gods | 4 | |
| 10477690289 | Ziggurats | large stepped pyramids, used to hold religious temples and altars | 5 | |
| 10477690853 | Hebrews (Jews) | lived in the region of Canaan- present day Israel, Palestine, and Lebanon, present day Jews | 6 | |
| 10477692088 | Abraham | According the Hebrew scripture, founded Canaan and settled there in 2000 B.C | 7 | |
| 10477693267 | Moses | According to Hebrew, led Hebrews out of Egypt in 1300 B.C. Introduced the 10 commandments | 8 | |
| 10477697878 | Ten Commandments | A code of conduct that became very influential in Christian areas | 9 | |
| 10477698375 | Jewish Diaspora | The spreading of Jews throughout the Mediterranean world and the Middle East | 10 | |
| 10477699605 | The Epic of Giglamesh | The oldest written story on earth, about a Sumerian king, Gilgamesh, who ruled the city | 11 | |
| 10477703751 | Cuneiform | the world's first writing system, created by Sumerians. Marks carved onto wet clay tablets. | 12 | |
| 10477709338 | Alphabetic Script | A system of symbols (letters) that represent the sounds of speech, as an alternative to cuneiform around 1000 B.C.E. | 13 | |
| 10477710627 | Sumer: | A civilization built by nomadic pastoralists called Sumerians who migrated into Mesopotamia | 14 | |
| 10477713067 | City-states | Sumerians cities that were independent, each with its own government | 15 | |
| 10477717325 | Babylonians | Inhabitants of Babylon, built by invaders of Sumer | 16 | |
| 10477718752 | Empire: | A large territory including diverse social groups | 17 | |
| 10477723325 | Phoenicians: | Occupied parts of present day Lebanon, Israel, and Jordan around 3000 B.C.E, developed alphabetic script | 18 | |
| 10477726129 | Desertification | the creation of desert-like conditions in North America in 5000 b.c. | 19 | |
| 10477727664 | King Menes | United lower and upper Egypt in 3100 bc, established his capital at the city | 20 | |
| 10477730930 | Pharaoh | the king or queen leading the government | 21 | |
| 10477730931 | Hyksos | pastoral nomads who invaded the Middle Kingdom using their advanced technology | 22 | |
| 10477735091 | Hittites | Invaded Egypt with their military advantages | 23 | |
| 10477735583 | Mummification: | the process of preserving bodies before burial | 24 | |
| 10477736278 | Hieroglyphics | Form of picture-writing, at first written on papyrus | 25 | |
| 10477738431 | Book of the Dead | A paper book placed in the coffins of dead people that told the story of their lives | 26 | |
| 10477739298 | Papyrus | plant used to make a paper-like writing material in ancient Egypt | 27 | |
| 10477740075 | Indus River Valley Civilization | Developed in the Indus River Valley in India, core civilization of foundational societies in the area | 28 | |
| 10477741377 | Environmental Degradation | Trees were cut down, soil eroded, causing gradual decline of Harappan and Mohenjo-Daro civilizations | 29 | |
| 10477742954 | Deforestation | Cutting down too many trees, caused soil to erode | 30 | |
| 10477743606 | Aryans | Indo-European nomadic pastoralists who replaced Harappan civilization; Indo-european speaking peoples from Central Asia who brought horses into India | 31 | |
| 10477747872 | Hindi | A language which evolved from commonly used Aryan tongue. Still spoken in Indian countries today | 32 | |
| 10477748705 | Vedas and Vedic Age | 1500-500 bc, Vedas were a collection of Aryan religious hymns, poems, and songs. Vedic age was Aryan's growing awareness of Dravidian beliefs | 33 | |
| 10477751934 | Dharma: | to escape cycle of rebirth, one must perform righteous duties and deeds (Dharma, which determines karma in the next life) | 34 | |
| 10477753669 | Karma: | fate (can be good or bad) | 35 | |
| 10477754324 | Moksha | Eternal peace and unity with brahma | 36 | |
| 10477755257 | Dravidians: | Indigenous peoples of India who interacted with Aryans, impacting Indian society | 37 | |
| 10477756227 | Mohenjo-Daro | A sophisticated urban center in the Indus River valley, very few farmers, disappeared likely to environmental degradation and flooding by the Indus River | 38 | |
| 10477759115 | Indo-European | relating to the family of languages spoken over the greater part of Europe and Asia as far as northern India. | 39 | |
| 10477759768 | Sanskrit | Sacred language of Aryans, brought by them to south asia | 40 | |
| 10477760778 | Upahishads | A foundational text for the set of religious beliefs that later became known as hinduism | 41 | |
| 10477761867 | Mandate of Heaven | the idea that a just ruler's power was bestowed by the gods | 42 | |
| 10477762853 | Xia Dynasty | 400 years, all leaders were from the same family (not much is known, as they didn't have writing) | 43 | |
| 10477765174 | Shang Dynasty | 1750-1027 Bc, lasted 600 years, Shang rulers conquered and created an empire (agricultural based), fell to the Zhou Dynasty | 44 | |
| 10477768495 | Zhou Dynasty | Ruled for 900 years. First 200 were the golden age, was very successful | 45 | |
| 10477769437 | Pictographs | Graphic symbols, each of which represented an idea | 46 | |
| 10477769964 | Chavin | 1000 to 200 BC, settlements in Andes mountains, along the cost of what is now Peru | 47 | |
| 10477771585 | Olmec | core of mesoamerican advanced civilizations, 1200 to 400 B.C. Agricultural based society | 48 | |
| 10477773941 | Austronesian | 5000 to 2500 B.C, migrated to New Guinea and introduced agriculture. They also migrated through the pacific islands creating Easter Island and building the famous stone heads. | 49 |
