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| 199489740 | Prehistory v.s. History | -Before written records -study of past events | 0 | |
| 199489741 | Features of Civilization | Technology, Record Keeping, Institutions, Complex Cities, Specialized Labor - Social etiquette, religion, education, literature | 1 | |
| 199489742 | Stages of Hominid Development | Australopithecus, Homo habilis, Homo erectus, Homo Sapien | 2 | |
| 199489743 | "Out of Africa" thesis v.s. multiregional thesis | That humans originated from Africa & proliferated - That humans originated from Africa but multiple geographical location first 100 million years | 3 | |
| 199489744 | Paleolithic | Old Stone Age | 4 | |
| 199489745 | Neolithic | New Stone Age | 5 | |
| 199489746 | Family Units, Clans, Tribes | group of people sharing common ancestry | 6 | |
| 199489747 | Foraging societies | Nomadic, small communities and population, no political system, economic distribution is more equal | 7 | |
| 199489748 | Nomadic hunters/ gatherers | move place to place according to environment, adapts to environment | 8 | |
| 199489749 | Ice Age | period of time where Earth partly in ice | 9 | |
| 199489750 | Civilization | most advanced stage of human social development or organization | 10 | |
| 199489751 | Neolithic Revolution | start of agriculture | 11 | |
| 199489752 | Domestication of Plants and Animals | altering the behaviors, size and genetics of the species | 12 | |
| 199489753 | Nomadic Pastoralism | slash- and- burn, once nutrients in soils are gone, they move on and repeat the process of growing crops again | 13 | |
| 199489754 | Migratory farmers | farmers that migrate instead of settling after using up the land | 14 | |
| 199489755 | Partrilineal/ patrilocal | ancestors traced on the father's side | 15 | |
| 199489756 | Irrigation systems | replacement or supplementation of rainfall with water from another source in order to grow crops | 16 | |
| 199489757 | Metalworking | craft and practice of working with metals | 17 | |
| 199489758 | Ethnocentism | a look at the world from one's own culture | 18 | |
| 199489759 | Foraging | looking for food | 19 | |
| 199489760 | Sedentary Agriculture | domestication of plants and animals | 20 | |
| 199489761 | Shifting Cultivation | process by which people take an area of land to use of land to use for agriculture | 21 | |
| 199489762 | Slash-and - burn agriculture | the cutting down of trees, burning stalks, to make plots for agriculture | 22 | |
| 199489763 | Matrilineal | tracing descendents through the mother's side | 23 | |
| 199489764 | Cultural Diffusion | spread of ideas, material and culture | 24 | |
| 199489765 | Independent Invention | creative innovation of new solution to old and new problems | 25 | |
| 199489766 | Specialization of Labor | specialization of co- operative labor in specific | 26 | |
| 199489767 | Gender division of labor | labor divided between man and woman | 27 | |
| 199489768 | Metallurgy and metalworking | physical and chemical behavior of metallic elements and their mixtures | 28 | |
| 199489769 | Animism | Belief on the existence that spirits separates from the body | 29 | |
| 199489770 | Polytheism | Belief in or worship of more than one god | 30 | |
| 199489771 | Monotheism | belief that there is but only one God | 31 | |
| 199489772 | Fertile Crescent | region in the Middle East incorporating present- day Israel, West Bank, and Lebanon and parts of Jordan, Syria, Iraq, and south- eastern Turkey | 32 | |
| 199489773 | Gilgamesh | legendary protagonist in the Epic of Gilgamesh | 33 | |
| 199489774 | Hammurabi's Law Code | 1st set of defined laws within a civilization | 34 | |
| 199489775 | Egypt | civilization in the Lower Nile Valley between the first Cartaract and the mouths of the Nile Delta | 35 | |
| 199489776 | Egyptian Book of the Dead | name for the ancient Egyptian funerary text. Contained spells, charms, passwords, numbers and magic formulas, used to guide the dead to the underworld | 36 | |
| 199489777 | Pyramids | tombs for Egyptians Kings | 37 | |
| 199489778 | Hieroglyphics | system of writing used by the Ancient Egyptians, using a combination of logo graphic, syllabic, and alphabetic elements | 38 | |
| 199489779 | Indus Valley Civilization | ancient civilization thriving by the Indus River | 39 | |
| 199489780 | Early China | Xia, Shang, Zhou, Warring States Period, Qin, Han | 40 | |
| 199489781 | The Celts | group of people that occupied lands stretching from the British Isles to Gallatia (went to war with the Romans) | 41 | |
| 199489782 | The Hittites and iron weapons | 1st to work with iron, 1st to enter stone age. Controlled central Anatolia, north- western Syria, to Ugarit & Mesopotamia | 42 | |
| 199489783 | The Assyrians and cavalry warfare | indigenous people of Mesopotamia and have a history spanning over 6700 years | 43 | |
| 199489784 | The Persian Empire | number of historic dynasties that have ruled the country of Persia (Iran) | 44 | |
| 199489785 | The Hebrews and monotheism | descendants of biblical Patriarch Eber; were people who lived in the Levant, which was politically Canaan when they first arrived in the area. First monotheistic group | 45 | |
| 199489786 | The Phoenicians and the alphabet | trading culture that spread across the Mediterranean during the 1st millennium B.C. 1st form of language | 46 | |
| 199575797 | The Lydians and coinage | ancient kingdom of Asia. 1st to mint coins | 47 | |
| 199575798 | Greek- city- states | region controlled exclusively by Greek, and usually having sovereignty | 48 | |
| 199575799 | Democracy | form of government in which policy is decided by the preference of the majority in the decision making process | 49 | |
| 199575800 | Persian Wars | series of conflicts between the Greek world and the Persian Empire that started about 500 B.C. and lasted until 448 B.C. | 50 | |
| 199575801 | Peloponnesian War | started in 431 B.C. between the Athenian Empire (or the Delian League) and the Peloponnesian League (included Sparta and Corinth) | 51 | |
| 199575802 | Alexander the Great | United Ancient Greece; Hellenistic Age, conquered a large empire | 52 | |
| 199575803 | Hellenism | shift from a culture dominated by ethic Greeks to a culture dominated by Greek speakers of various ethnicities | 53 | |
| 199575804 | Homer | legendary early Greek poet and rhapsode traditionally credited with the authorship of the major Greek epic Illiad and Odyssey | 54 | |
| 199575805 | Socrates and Plato | Greek philosopher/ student | 55 | |
| 199575806 | Aristotle | considered to be one of the two most influential philosophers in Western thought. He wrote many books about physics, poetry, zoology, logic, government, and biology | 56 | |
| 199575807 | Western Scientific thought | hypothesis evaluation that forms the basis for modern science | 57 | |
| 199575808 | Roman Republic | republican government of the city of Rome and its territories from 510 B.C. until the establishment of the Roman Empire | 58 | |
| 199575809 | Plebeians v.s. Patricians | peasants/ slaves v.s. elite/ upper class | 59 | |
| 199575810 | Punic War | series of three wars fought between Rome and the Phoenician City of Carthage | 60 | |
| 199575811 | Julius Caesar | Roman military and political leader | 61 | |
| 199575812 | Roman Empire | ancient Roman polity in the centuries following its reorganization under the leadership of Octavian | 62 | |
| 199575813 | Qin, Han, Tang Dynasties | 1st 3 dynasties of China that there are records of the 1st of the ' Centralized' China | 63 | |
| 199575814 | Shi Huangdi | king of the Chinese state of Qin from 247 B.C. to 221 B.C. | 64 | |
| 199575815 | Chinese tributary System | form of conducting diplomatic and political relations with China before the fall of the Qin Dynasty | 65 | |
| 199575816 | The Silk Road | interconnected series of routes through Southern Asia traversed by caravan and ocean vessels | 66 |
