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| 14323882787 | Nomad | really early people whose sole focus was to satisfy their basic needs: shelter and food | 0 | |
| 14323882788 | Foraging societies | hunter-gatherer clans that depended on nature to supply their needs | 1 | |
| 14323882789 | Pastoral societies | domesticated animals and cultivated plants | 2 | |
| 14323882790 | Cuneiform | a form of writing Sumerians developed | 3 | |
| 14323882791 | Polythesistic | worshiping more than one god (Sumerians) | 4 | |
| 14323882792 | Ziggurat | temple (built by Sumerians) | 5 | |
| 14323882793 | Code of Hammurabi | first ever code of laws (developed by King Hammurabi of Babylon) | 6 | |
| 14323882794 | Pharaohs | rulers of Egypt | 7 | |
| 14323882795 | Hieroglyphics | system of writing consisting of pictures that represented letters and words created by Egyptians | 8 | |
| 14323882796 | Mummification | process of preserving dead bodies | 9 | |
| 14323882797 | Pyramids | enormous tombs for afterlife | 10 | |
| 14323882827 | River valley- | rivers that provided water and good soil, where most civilizations lived | 11 | |
| 14323882798 | Calendar | 12 month calendar that was developed by Sumerians | 12 | |
| 14323882799 | Hinduism | what early Aryan beliefs became the basis of | 13 | |
| 14323882800 | The Vedas and Upanishads | what the Aryans recorded their polytheistic beliefs and traditions in | 14 | |
| 14323882801 | Brahmans | the priest class in the Aryan social structure | 15 | |
| 14323882802 | Patriarchy | family led by the eldest male | 16 | |
| 14323882803 | Mandate of Heaven | what the Zhou Dynasty believed in; heaven would grant the Zhou power as long of the rulers governed justly and wisely | 17 | |
| 14323882828 | Bureaucracy, bureau- | a system of government in which most of the important decisions are made by state officials rather than by elected representatives | 18 | |
| 14323882829 | Migration- | movement of people from one place to another | 19 | |
| 14323882804 | Zhou Dynasty | established by Wu Wang after the demolition of the Shang in 1100 BCE | 20 | |
| 14323882805 | Neolithic Revolution (Agricultural Revolution) | 8000 BCE-3000 BCE: transition period when groups of people moved from nomadic lifestyles to agricultural lifestyles | 21 | |
| 14323882806 | Bronze Age | when people figured out how to combine copper with tin to make bronze and advanced the development of tools and weapons | 22 | |
| 14323882807 | Mesopotamia | means between the rivers (tigris and euphrates), part of Fertile Crescent | 23 | |
| 14323882808 | Sumerian civilization | first major Mesopotamian civilization; was in the southern part of Mesopotamia | 24 | |
| 14323882809 | Tigris and Euphrates Rivers | between them was Mesopotamia, flooded unpredictably and washed away many early settlements | 25 | |
| 14323882810 | Babylon | city in Mesopotamia | 26 | |
| 14323882811 | Hittites | ruled the region because they learned how to use iron in their weapons, invaded Babylon | 27 | |
| 14323882812 | Assyrians | learned to use iron in less than a century; army was highly disciplined but cruel | 28 | |
| 14323882813 | Nebuchadnezzar | Chaldean king that rebuilt Babylon; defeated the Assyrians with the help of the Medes | 29 | |
| 14323882814 | Persian Empire | new civilization that took over the new Babylon | 30 | |
| 14323882815 | Egyptian civilization | developed along the Nile River; most Egyptians lived in smaller towns | 31 | |
| 14323882816 | King Menes | united the entire river valley | 32 | |
| 14323882817 | Queen Hatshepsut | female pharaoh that ruled for 22 years during the New Kingdom | 33 | |
| 14323882818 | Indus Valley | a civilization built 900 miles along the Indus River and huge mountains; not much connection outside | 34 | |
| 14323882819 | Fertile Crescent | a land with pretty good soil in which Mesopotamia was in | 35 | |
| 14323882820 | Khyber Pass | provided a connection to the Indus Valley | 36 | |
| 14323882821 | Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro | major cities of the Indus Valley, home to more than 100,000 people each | 37 | |
| 14323882822 | Aryans | nomadic tribes from north of the Caucasus Mountains; defeated Indus Valley with horses and advanced weaponry | 38 | |
| 14323882823 | Shang China | rose in the Hwang Ho River Valley; militarily quite powerful, but limited contact with the outside | 39 | |
| 14323882824 | Bantu migrations | (1500 BCE) farmers in the Niger and Benue River valleys in West Africa began migrating south and east, spreading their knowledge of languages, agriculture, and metallurgy; continued for 2,000 years | 40 | |
| 14323882825 | Olmec | early civilization in what is now Mexico (1500-4000 BCE) | 41 | |
| 14323882826 | Chavin | early civilization in the Andes (900- 200 BCE) | 42 |
