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| 13627090832 | Six-thousand years ago | When did the world's first cities appear? | 0 | |
| 13627099253 | Complex societies | A form of a large-scale social organization that emerged in several parts of the ancient world. | 1 | |
| 13627120634 | Lucy | A forty percent complete skeleton discovery of an Australopithecus afarensis, or a species within the category of hominid. She was rediscovered on November 24, 1974 in Hadar, Ethiopia. | 2 | |
| 13627132510 | Prehistory | A period of time that refers to events or objects that date before the written record existed. | 3 | |
| 13627137143 | Olduvai Gorge | A gorge in northeastern Tanzania where anthropologists have found some of the earliest human remains | 4 | |
| 13627147223 | Australopithecus | "southern ape"; appeared in Africa 4-5 million years ago; stood upright and walked on 2 legs; brain was only 1/3 the size of our brains today | 5 | |
| 13627158544 | Hominid | A member of a biological group including human beings and related species that walk upright | 6 | |
| 13627162542 | Homo | The genus of modern humans | 7 | |
| 13627169049 | Homo erectus | "Upright man" these hominids became skillful hunters and invented more sophisticated tools for digging, scraping and cutting. They also became the first hominids to migrate from Africa. Also were the first to use fire. | 8 | |
| 13627176861 | Homo sapiens | A species of the creatures Hominid who have larger brains and to which humans belong, dependent of language and usage of tools. | 9 | |
| 13627182463 | Paleolithic Era | Called the old stone age (from 10,000 to 2.5 million years ago); they were concerned with food supply; they used stone as well as bone tools; they were nomadic hunters and gatherers. | 10 | |
| 13627190281 | Natufian Society | Referring to collector-type hunter-gatherers who established sedentary settlements in parts of the Near East after 12,000 ya. | 11 | |
| 13627195076 | Jomon Society | Period of life in japan. It transitioned over many years from nomadic "hunters and gatherers" to settlements and farmers. | 12 | |
| 13627207496 | Hunter-gatherers | Nomadic groups whose food supply depends on hunting animals and collecting plant foods | 13 | |
| 13629083656 | Chinook Society | Permanently settled in Pacific Northwest. They had sources of berries, acorns, and salmon. | 14 | |
| 13629089614 | Neanderthals | In Europe, another human species lived and adapted to life in the cold climates of the last Ice Age. | 15 | |
| 13629097330 | Cro-Magnon | These people who are identical to modern humans appeared around 40,000 years ago. They had new tools, planned hunts, and appear to have migrated from Northern Africa to Asia and Europe. | 16 | |
| 13629101433 | Venus figurines | Small Paleolithic statues of women with exaggerated sexual features. | 17 | |
| 13629108749 | Neolithic Age | "New Stone Age"; About 10,000 years ago marked by advances in the production of stone tools. Shift from hunting and gathering to agriculture | 18 | |
| 13629112716 | Foragers | People who support themselves by hunting wild animals and gathering wild edible plants and insects. | 19 | |
| 13629133456 | Mesoamerica | A geographic region in the western hemisphere that was home of the Mayan and Aztec civilizations. | 20 | |
| 13629140258 | Jericho | An ancient and strategically vital city in Canaan, the first major city to be captured by the Israelites. | 21 | |
| 13629145313 | Catal Huyuk | One of first true cities in history, created in the Neolithic Era in 6500 to 5500 BC, from which were created agriculture, trading, temples, housing, and religions | 22 | |
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