| 4835149359 | Civilization | Complex societies. Used to describe any group of people sharing a set of cultural traits | 0 | |
| 4835149360 | Neolithic | New Stone Age | 1 | |
| 4835149361 | Foragers | People who support themselves by hunting wild animals and gathering wild edible plants and insects. (Hunter gatherers) | 2 | |
| 4835149362 | Culture | Socially transmitted patterns of actions and expressions such as clothing, tools, knowledge, and technology | 3 | |
| 4835149363 | History | The study of past events and changes in the development, transmission, and transformation of cultural practices | 4 | |
| 4835149364 | Paleolithic | Old stone age | 5 | |
| 4835149365 | Agricultural revolutions | The change from food gathering to food production | 6 | |
| 4835149366 | Holocene | The geological era since the end of the great ice age about 11,000 years ago | 7 | |
| 4835149367 | Megaliths | Structures and complexes of very large stones constructed for ceremonial and religious purposes in Neolithic times | 8 | |
| 4835149368 | Babylon | The largest and most important city in Mesopotamia. | 9 | |
| 4835149369 | Sumerians | People who dominated southern Mesopotamia through the end of the 3rd millennium BCE. We're responsible for the creation of many fundamental elements of Mesopotamian culture such as irrigation, technology and cuneiform | 10 | |
| 4835149370 | Semitic | Family of related languages long spoken across parts of Western Asia and Northern Africa. Languages include Hebrew, Aramaic, and Phoenician. | 11 | |
| 4835149371 | City-state | Small independent state consisting of an urban center and the surrounding agricultural territory. | 12 | |
| 4835149372 | Hammurabi | 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 | 13 | |
| 4835149373 | Scribe | Administrator or scholar. Charged by the temple or palace with reading and writing tasks | 14 | |
| 4835149374 | Ziggurat | A multistory, mud rock, pyramid shaped tower approached by Ramos and stairs | 15 | |
| 4835149375 | Amulets | Small chants meant to protect the bearer from evil | 16 | |
| 4835149376 | Cuneiform | System of writing in which wedge shaped symbols represented words or syllables. Originated in Mesopotamia | 17 | |
| 4835149377 | Pharaoh | An Egyptian term for a king, who was believed to be a god on earth | 18 | |
| 4835149378 | Pyramid | Series of stone platforms laid one on top of the other | 19 | |
| 4835149379 | Hieroglyphics | Form of writing using picture symbols standing for words, syllables, or sounds | 20 | |
| 4835149380 | Papyrus | Paper like writing medium used by the Egyptians and many other people's in the Middle East | 21 | |
| 4835149381 | Mummy | Body preserved by chemical process or circumstances often believed the deceased will need it again in the afterlife | 22 | |
| 4838197774 | Loess | Yellowish brown dust that gave the yellow river of China its distinctive name | 23 | |
| 4840824022 | Ma'at | The divinely authorized order of the universe | 24 | |
| 4841084272 | Mohenjo-Daro and harappa | We're two Indus Valley civilizations | 25 | 
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