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| 2931802515 | Civilization | A society with cities, a central government, job specialization, and social classes |  | 0 |
| 2931806779 | Culture | Beliefs, customs, and traditions of a specific group of people. |  | 1 |
| 2931809869 | Stone age | The historical period characterized by the production of tools from stone and other nonmetallic substances. It was followed in some places by the Bronze Age |  | 2 |
| 2931812506 | Paleolithic | (Old Stone Age) a long period of human development before the development of agriculture |  | 3 |
| 2931814656 | Neolithic | (10,000 - 8,000 BCE) The development of agriculture and the domestication of animals as a food source. This led to the development of permanent settlements and the start of civilization. |  | 4 |
| 2931827262 | Foragers | People who support themselves by hunting wild animals and gathering wild edible plants and insects. |  | 5 |
| 2931827283 | Agricultural Revolution | The time when human beings first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering |  | 6 |
| 2931835380 | Sumerians | The name of the first culture in the world to develop cities. |  | 7 |
| 2931839907 | City-State | A sovereign state comprising a city and its immediate hinterland. |  | 8 |
| 2931843718 | Babylon | The largest and most important city in Mesopotamia. It achieved particular eminence as the capital of the king Hammurabi in the eighteenth century B.C.E. and the Neo-Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar in the sixth century B.C.E. (p. 29) |  | 9 |
| 2931846187 | Hammurabi | Amorite ruler of Babylon (r. 1792-1750 B.C.E.). He conquered many city-states in southern and northern Mesopotamia and is best known for a code of laws, inscribed on a black stone pillar, illustrating the principles to be used in legal cases. |  | 10 |
| 2931847922 | Scribe | A writer. |  | 11 |
| 2931847923 | Ziggurat | massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mudbricks. It is associated with religious complexes in ancient Mesopotamian cities, but its function is unknown. |  | 12 |
| 2931853988 | Cuneiform | A form of writing developed by the Sumerians using a wedge shaped stylus and clay tablets. |  | 13 |
| 2931855992 | Bronze | Copper and tin |  | 14 |
| 2931861112 | Pyramid | Egyptian burial tombs |  | 15 |
| 2931865151 | Hieroglyphics | An ancient Egyptian writing system in which pictures were used to represent ideas and sounds |  | 16 |
| 2931867294 | Harappa | Ancient city in the Indus River valley in present-day Pakistan |  | 17 |
| 2931873107 | Mohenjo-Daro | Largest city of the Indus Valley civilization. It was centrally located in the extensive floodplain of the Indus River. Little is known about the political institutions of Indus Valley communities, but the large-scale implies central planning. |  | 18 |
| 2931876860 | Shang | The dominant people in the earliest Chinese dynasty for which we have written records (ca. 1750-1027 B.C.E.). Ancestor worship, divination by means of oracle bones, and the use of bronze vessels for ritual purposes were major elements of this culture. |  | 19 |
| 2931878332 | Olmec | Mesoamerican civilization in lower Mexico around 1500 BCE to about 400 BCE focused. Most remembered for their large stone heads. |  | 20 |
| 2931878353 | Chavin | the first major South American civilization, which flourished in the highlands of what is now Peru from about 900 to 200 B.C. |  | 21 |
| 2931883897 | Akkadians | "Semitic people" north of the Sumerian city-states |  | 22 |
| 2931886950 | Hittites | A people from central Anatolia who established an empire in Anatolia and Syria in the Late Bronze Age. With wealth from the trade in metals and military power based on chariot forces, they vied with New Kingdom Egypt over Syria. |  | 23 |
| 2931891718 | Nebuchadnezzar | A Babylonian king who conquered Jerusalem,and built the Hanging Gardens of Babylon |  | 24 |
| 2931900276 | Pastoralist | a member of a nomadic group that herds domesticated animals |  | 25 |
| 2931904985 | Hunter-Gatherer | People who hunt animals and gather wild plants, seeds, fruits, and nuts to survive |  | 26 |
| 2931904986 | Nomad | wandering from place to place |  | 27 |
| 2931909595 | Chaldeans | The new Babylonians, their king was king Nebuchadnezzar. |  | 28 |
| 2931951978 | Domestication | The conscious manipulation of plant and animal species by humans in order to sustain themselves. |  | 29 |
