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| 283939833 | Stone Age | time when people produced tools from stone and metal | 0 | |
| 283939834 | Paleolithic | period of the Stone Age associated with evolution of humans. predates neolithic period | 1 | |
| 283939835 | Agricultural Revolutions | change from food gathering to food production that occurred between 8000 and 2000 BCE. aka Neolithic Revolution | 2 | |
| 283939836 | Holocene | geological era since the end of the Great Ice Age about 11,000 years ago | 3 | |
| 283939837 | megaliths | structures and complexes of very large stones constructed for ceremonial religious purpose in Neolithic times | 4 | |
| 283939838 | Babylon | largest and most important city in Mesopotamia. It achieved particular eminence as the capital of the Amorite king Hammurabi in the 18th century BCE and Neo-Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar in the 6th century BCE | 5 | |
| 283939839 | Sumerian | people who dominated southern Mesopotamia through the end of the third millennium bce. they were responsible for the creation of many fundamental elements of Mesopotamian culture- such as irrigation technology, cuneiform, and religious conceptions-taken over by their semitic successors | 6 | |
| 283939840 | semitic | family of related languages long spoken across parts of western Asia and northern Africa. In antiquity these languages included Hebrew, Aramaic, and Phoenician. The most widespread modern member of the Semitic family is Arabic. | 7 | |
| 283939841 | Hammurabi | Amorite ruler of Babylon. 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 | 8 | |
| 283939842 | city-states | a small independent state consisting of an urban center and the surrounding agricultural territory. A characteristic political form in early Mesopotamia, Archaic and Classical Greece, Phoenicia, and early Italy. | 9 | |
| 283939843 | ziggurat | a massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mud bricks. it is associated with religious complexes in ancient Mesopotamian cities, but is function is unknown | 10 | |
| 283939844 | cuneiform | a system of writing in which wedge-shaped symbols represented words or syllables. it originated in Mesopotamia and was used initially for Sumerian and Akkadian but later was adapted to represent other languages of western Asia. Because so many symbols had to be learned, literacy was confined to a relatively small group of administrators and scribes | 11 | |
| 283939845 | pharaoh | the central figure in the ancient Egyptian state. Believed to be an earthly manifestation of the gods, he used his absolute power to maintain the safety and prosperity of Egypt. | 12 | |
| 283939846 | ma'at | Egyptian term for the concept of divinely created and maintained order in the universe. Reflecting the ancient Egyptians' belief in an essentially beneficent world, the divine ruler was the earthly guarantor of this order | 13 | |
| 283939847 | pyramid | a large, triangular stone monument, used in Egypt and Nubia as a burial place for the king. the largest pyramids, erected during the old kingdom near memphis with stone tools and compulsory labor, reflected the Egyptian belief that the proper and spectacular burial of the divine ruler would guarantee the continued prosperity of the land. | 14 | |
| 283939848 | Memphis | the capital of the Old kingdom, near the head of the Nile Delta. Early rulers were interred int he nearby pyramids. | 15 | |
| 283939849 | Thebes | capital city of Egypt and home of the ruling dynasties during the Middle and New Kingdoms. Amon, patron deity of Thebes, became one of the chief gods of Egypt. Monarchs were buried across the river in the Valley of the Kings. | 16 | |
| 283939850 | hieroglyphics | a system of writing in which pictorial symbols represented sounds, syllables, or concepts. It was used for official and monumental inscriptions in ancient Egypt. Because of the long period of study required to master this system, literacy in heiroglyphics was confined to a relatively small group of scribes and adminstrators. Cursive symbol-forms were developed for rapid composition on other media, such as papyrus. | 17 | |
| 283939851 | papyrus | a reed that grows along the banks of the Nile River in Egypt. From it was produced a coarse, paperlike writing medium used by the Egyptians and many other peoples in the ancient Mediterranena and MIddle East. | 18 | |
| 283939852 | mummy | a body preserved by chemical processes or special natural circumstances, often in the belief that the deceased will need it again in the afterlife. In ancient Egypt the bodies of people who could afford mummification underwent a complex process of removing organs, filling body cavities, dehydrating the corpse with natron, and then wrapping the body with linen bandages and enclosing it in a wooden sarcophagus. | 19 | |
| 283939853 | Harappa | Site of one of the great cities in the Indus Valley civilization of the third millenium bc. it was located on the northwestern frontier of the zone of cultivation (in modern Pakistan), and may have ben a center for the acqusition of raw materials, such as metals and precious stones, from Afghanistan and Iran | 20 | |
| 283939854 | Mohenjo-Daro | largest of the cities of the Indus Valley civilization. IT was centrally located in the extensive floodplain of the indus river in contemporary pakistan. little is known about the political institutions of indus valley communities, but the large scale of construction at mohenjo-daro, the orderly grid of streets, and the standardization of building materials are evidence of central planning | 21 |
