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| 35112258 | Family units | primary social group | 0 | |
| 35112259 | Nomadic hunter gathers | someone who roams around looking for food | 1 | |
| 35112260 | Domestication of plants and animals | Early humans domesticated plants and aminals to suit their needs. | 2 | |
| 35112261 | Metalworking | the activity of making things out of metal in a skillful manner | 3 | |
| 35112262 | clans | Extended Families | 4 | |
| 35112263 | tribes | separate family groups | 5 | |
| 35112264 | Neolithic | the last phase of the Stone Age, marked by the domestication of animals, the development of agriculture, and the manufacture of pottery | 6 | |
| 35112265 | Mesopotamia | The region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers; birthplace of the Sumerian and Babylonian Civilizations. | 7 | |
| 35112266 | Sumer | An ancient region of southern Mesopotamia which rose around 3300 B.C. The first empire that ruled in Mesopotamia and is credited with inventing writing. | 8 | |
| 35112267 | Sargon of Akkad | an ancient Mesopotamian ruler who reigned approximately 2334-2279 BC, and was one of the earliest of the world's great empire builders, conquering all of southern Mesopotamia as well as parts of Syria, Anatolia, and Elam (western Iran). He established the region's first Semitic dynasty and was considered the founder of the Mesopotamian military tradition. | 9 | |
| 35112268 | Akkadian Empire | Began in 2350 BCE when Sargon - King of Akkad - began conquering Sumerian cities. The empire was the first to unite city-states under a single ruler and ruled for 200 years. | 10 | |
| 35112269 | city-state | a city with political and economic control over the surrounding countryside | 11 | |
| 35112270 | Gilgamesh | a legendary Sumerian king who was the hero of an epic collection of mythic stories | 12 | |
| 35112271 | ziggurat | a temple tower of the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories | 13 | |
| 35112272 | Ur | an ancient city of Sumer located on a former channel of the Euphrates River | 14 | |
| 35112273 | pictograms | the earliest forms of writing in which pictures represent words or ideas | 15 | |
| 35112274 | cuneiform | Sumerian writing made by pressing a wedge-shaped tool into clay tablets | 16 | |
| 35112275 | ideograms | The system of writing used in China and other East Asian countries in which each symbol represents an idea or concept rather than a specific sound, as is the case with letters in English. | 17 | |
| 35112276 | Code of Hammurabi | Introduced by Hammarabi was the first complete collection of laws that the people could look at and follow | 18 | |
| 35112277 | Nile | River in Egypt; gave life to the Egyptian desert; Biannual flooding; longest river in the world (Over 4000 Mi. long) Had cataracts or rapids; provided fertile soil | 19 | |
| 35112278 | cataract | rock filled rapids | 20 | |
| 35112279 | pharaoh | a king of ancient Egypt, considered a god as well as a political and military leader | 21 |
