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| 7977938118 | Sub-Saharan Africa | Civilization bisected by the Equator that lagged in the domestication of animals and was suitable for agriculture | 0 | |
| 7977938119 | Kingdom of Meroe (Kush/Nubia) | Civilization that was deeply related to Egypt, had female monarchs, iron smelting, agriculture based on rainfall and the Nile flooding, extensive trade networks, and local religion, declined because of conquest and deforestation | 1 | |
| 7977946910 | Piye (d. 714 BCE) | Ruled Egypt after conquering it | 2 | |
| 7977946911 | Apedemek | Indigenous lion god of war with multiple heads and a human body | 3 | |
| 7977946912 | Kingdom of Axum | Capital was Axum, located in modern Ethiopia, plow-based farming, extensive trade, resisted Islam, obelisks, declined because of the rise of Islam, famine, and degradation of ecology | 4 | |
| 7977949240 | Horn of Africa | Contains the port city, located in East Africa | 5 | |
| 7977949241 | Adulis | Port city located in the Horn of Africa that connected with Indian Ocean trade | 6 | |
| 7977949242 | Obelisk | Structure carved from one stone that had a pointed top | 7 | |
| 7977953015 | Ezana (d. 360s CE) | Ruled Axum, conquers and expands area, ruled during the height, power to be dealt with, Coptic Christianity | 8 | |
| 7977953016 | Jenne-jeno | Largest in Niger River Valley, cluster settlements, domesticated rice, had terra-cotta figures, UNESCO, declined partly because of trade | 9 | |
| 7977954812 | City without Citadels | Collection of small communities around a central town center, not great social stratification, no war or ruling family | 10 | |
| 7977954813 | Griots | Song specialist, poet, story-teller, cultural epics | 11 | |
| 7977954814 | Mesoamerica | Common features included the crops maize, beans, peppers, and squash, human sacrifice, pyramids, male and female gods, a winged serpent, writing that included pictures, hieroglyphs and syllables, not an alphabet | 12 | |
| 7977954815 | Mayan Culture | Located in present-day Guatemala and Mexico, no unified empire, warring states, mathematics, astronomy, and an engineered landscape, collapsed because of a drought, South declined 80% quicker than North | 13 | |
| 7977957496 | El Mirador | Largest Mayan monumental architecture pyramid, hard to find, overgrown, in jungle | 14 | |
| 7977957497 | Tikal | Tourist attraction, recognizable images, contains the Pyramid of the Jaguar | 15 | |
| 7977957498 | Mayan Mathematics | Concept of zero, place notation, combined with Astronomy, solar and lunar eclipses | 16 | |
| 7977957499 | Teotihuacan | Named by Aztec, center of Mexico, language, government, and tombs unknown, semi-divine kings/queens??, planned city, tunnels under pyramids, Street of the Dead, neighborhoods | 17 | |
| 7977961226 | Pyramids of the Sun and Moon | On each end of the Street of the Dead, Sun is the biggest, Moon the second biggest | 18 | |
| 7977961227 | Chavin | Lacked defensive structures and public art, contained The Old Temple, may have been the center of an Andean religious movement | 19 | |
| 7977966070 | Julio Tello (1880-1947) | Discovered Chavin, thought it was a religious center, offerings in corridors leading to stone, local people had memory of oracle | 20 | |
| 7977966071 | El Lanzon | Temple with narrow corridors used for divination, people left gifts, U-shaped, interior corridors, sunken circular plaza with two layers of stone reliefs | 21 | |
| 7977966072 | Oracle | Used in order to ask and answer questions | 22 | |
| 7977966073 | Axis Mundi | World Tree, stone from the ground through the ceiling, connecting heaven and earth, fanged clawed cat | 23 | |
| 7977969401 | San Pedro Cactus | Mescaline, hallucinogenic drug that would transfer the consumer into a god | 24 | |
| 7977969402 | Cult of Feline Deity | Jaguar cult, essential, Andean religious movement? | 25 | |
| 7977969403 | Moche Culture | 13 coastal river systems, massive use of irrigation, city states connected culturally, Incans got credit for their roads, warfare depicted on art, internal?, temples, textiles, ceramics, stirrup pottery, tombs used for pyramids | 26 | |
| 7977969404 | Shaman | Priests buried with riches | 27 | |
| 7977972411 | Lord of Sipan | Priest buried with women, guards, a dog, a child, a crown, wives, warriors, jewelry, clothing, fanged god | 28 | |
| 7977972412 | Wari Culture | Large region, built stage for Inca, North of Lake Titicaca, walled cities, terraced agriculture, camelid herding, stone-paved roads to move herds, no wheels | 29 | |
| 7977972413 | Terraced Agriculture | Like flowerbeds, used corn on a scale never seen before, potatoes, stone-based, drained, top had organic compost | 30 | |
| 7977974571 | Potato | First seen with the Wari culture, 1200 types, 1 strain, disease | 31 | |
| 7977974572 | Camelid Herding | Alpacas and llama herding on a level never seen before | 32 | |
| 7977976996 | Tiwanaku Culture | South of Lake Titicaca, trees were evil, cut down, raised field agriculture, stone walls without mortar, religion borrowed from Chavin | 33 | |
| 7977979820 | Raised-Field Agriculture | 12000 feet above, parallel ditches with water, crops in middle, ditches raised fish to be harvested, enriched water | 34 | |
| 7977979821 | Pueblo Culture | Made out of adobe, interlocking rooms, defensive, NW New Mexico, 4 Corners | 35 | |
| 7977979822 | Kiva | Ceremonial chamber used for religious purposes | 36 | |
| 7977982125 | Chaco Canyon | Intense Pueblo culture, 5000 people, turquoise major trade item, major road network, no domesticated animals, religious network?, sharp decline because of drought and abandonment | 37 | |
| 7977982126 | Pueblo Bonito | Largest, sunken in circles, kivas | 38 | |
| 7977984345 | Chaco Phenomenon | Style of life that radiated a new way of living | 39 | |
| 7977984346 | Acoma Pueblo | Oldest continuously inhabited, sky city, Kachina dolls representing gods | 40 | |
| 7977987221 | Mound Builder Cultures | Include Hopewell, Mississippian, and Natchez | 41 | |
| 7977987222 | Hopewell Culture | Famous for monumental architecture built from earth, Serpent Mound example, Ohio, burial mounds and pyramids, hard to tear down, Mica mineral that can be carved into thin sheets, smoked, made pipes | 42 | |
| 7977989699 | Mississippian Culture | Cahokia, earthwork pyramids, domestic houses, temples, burial buildings on top of mounds, maize-based, extensive trade networks, didn't work with metal, institutionalized social inequality, settlement hierarchy | 43 | |
| 7977989700 | Cahokia | Great Pyramid 15 acres large, top had dwellings where priests live, biggest monumental structure, site for culture, much remains, 10000 people | 44 | |
| 7977989701 | Natchez Culture | Only Mississippian Culture to survive Eurpoeans, matrilineal | 45 | |
| 7977994842 | Matrilineal Society | Family rulers traced through mother | 46 | |
| 7977996869 | Great Suns | Mother gave birth to chief priest, sister next mother of great sun | 47 | |
| 7977999469 | Joseph Smith (1805-1844) | Founder of Mormonism, revelation in the Book of Mormon, history of lost civilization that built great mounds, lost races of white people built them and Jesus visited them | 48 | |
| 7977999470 | Bantu Diffusion | Generation by generation, slowly, natural, peaceful, not conquest or self-conscious, 400 different languages, ironworking, settled agriculture, interacted with foragers, some chiefdoms, some lacked elite specialists, less patriarchal, complementary, women-farming, men-hunt, fish, gather | 49 | |
| 7978001995 | Pygmy (Batwa) | People who were forest specialists who were usually shorter than average | 50 | |
| 7978001996 | Forest Specialists | Pygmy people in Central Africa forests that produced exotic products and elephant tusks and skins | 51 | |
| 7978001997 | Bantu Religion | Importance of ancestor worship, disease because of offending, witches, animism, diviners, continuous revelation, no missionary impulse, localized | 52 | |
| 7978004885 | Animism | The spirit world communicated through inanimate objects, plants, and animals, connector ability | 53 | |
| 7978004886 | Diviners | Got in touch with spirits to predict outcomes | 54 | |
| 7978007389 | Continuous Revelation | More could always be revealed, NOT like Christianity | 55 | |
| 7978007390 | Pacific Oceania | Originated from SE Asia, Micronesia, Melanesia, Polynesia, one of last human migrations, Easter Island furthest East, cut off life, varying chiefdoms, no empires, Austronesian language family, Pacific gave food, birds domesticated, women not pure, patriarchy depended, extensive trade | 56 | |
| 7978009441 | Ecological Impact | Extinction of Moa bird, East Island was deforested by rats, abandoned | 57 | |
| 7978012340 | Pohnpei | Built canals, Venice of the Pacific, kings of island, secluded, forbidden city | 58 | |
| 7978012341 | Tatau | Body decoration, tattoo, intricate, whole body | 59 | |
| 7978012342 | Mana | Spiritual power of chiefs, cross over to other world, tribal priest | 60 | |
| 7978012343 | Tapu | Protected people and holiness of priests, taboo, line can't be crossed | 61 | |
| 7978015056 | Lapita | Pottery style with an extraordinary range | 62 | |
| 7978015057 | Thor Heyerdahl | Built the Kon-Tiki, fascinated with trade, proved South Americans went West across the ocean, DNA on islands, 8% from South America | 63 | |
| 7978027768 | Kon-Tiki | 6-person vessel using technology and materials from ancient voyagers, 100-day, 400-mile trip | 64 |
