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| 4370159822 | Foraging societies | Hunter-gatherer clans; small groups of people who traveled from point to point as the climate and availibility of plants and animals dictated | 0 | |
| 4370159823 | Pastoral societies | Characterized by domestication of animals; found im montainous and plenty of rainfall areas | 1 | |
| 4370159824 | Sumer | Southern part of Mesopotamia; successful agriculture and river management; came up with cuneiform | 2 | |
| 4370159825 | Cuneiform | Used to set laws, treaties, and religious amd social customs and latwr trade; made by Sumerians | 3 | |
| 4370159826 | Ziggurats | Terraced pyramids to appease gods; first used by Sumerians | 4 | |
| 4370159827 | Babylon | Overrun Akkad (north of Sumer); in Mesopotamia | 5 | |
| 4370159828 | The Code of Hammurabi | Babylonian; code of laws or extensive code that dealt with every part of daily life | 6 | |
| 4370159829 | Hittites | Invaded Babylon; dominated region in 1500 BCE; learned how to use iron | 7 | |
| 4370159830 | Assyrians | Learned to use iron the way the Hittites used to defeat them; established Nineveh as a capital; would eventually build empire across Fertile Crescent; cruel and hated | 8 | |
| 4370159831 | Nebuchadnezzar | Chaldean king; rebuilt Babylon as a showplace of architecture and culture; used Fertile Crescent | 9 | |
| 4370159832 | Persian Empire | Developed into major world force; conquest of Babylon | 10 | |
| 4370159833 | Egyptian | Developed along Nile River; rich soil and plentiful agricultural opportunities; stable agricultral cycle & regular food surpluses; organized into different kingdoms; astronomy; polytheistic | 11 | |
| 4370159834 | King Menes | United entire river valley; built capital at Memphis and led efforts to manage floodwaters and biuld drainage and irrigation systems | 12 | |
| 4370159835 | Pharaohs | Rulers; directed construction of obelisks, pyramids, and enormous tombs for their afterlife | 13 | |
| 4370159836 | Hieroglyphics | System consisted of a series of pictures that represented letters and words; used by Egyptians | 14 | |
| 4370159837 | Queen Hatshepsut | First female ruler; ruled for 22 years during Mew Kingdom; expanding Egyptian trade expeditions | 15 | |
| 4370159838 | Indus Vally civilization | Built along the banks of a river system; contact with outsiders more limited; strong central government; polytheistic; cotton and cloth | 16 | |
| 4370159839 | Khmer Pass | Through Hindu Kush Mtns.; provided connection to outside world and used by merchants on trade excursions; gave invading forces a way into land; Indus Valley used | 17 | |
| 4370159840 | Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro | Indus Valley's two major cities; master-planned; uniformly constructed; sophisticated wastewater systems | 18 | |
| 4370159841 | Aryans | Nomadic tribes from north of Caucasus Mtns.; defeated Indus Valley by horses and advanced weapons; formed Hinduism | 19 | |
| 4370159842 | Brahmans | Priest class in Aryan civilization; moved above warrior class to be closer to gods | 20 | |
| 4370159843 | Shang China | Rose in Hwang Ho River (Yellow River Valley; stable agricultural surplus for trade-centered civilization; developed alot | 21 | |
| 4370159844 | Patriarchal structure | Household is led by the eldest male; Shang China | 22 | |
| 4370159845 | Zhou Dynasty | Took over Shang with Wu Wang; ruled China longer than any other (900 yrs.) | 23 | |
| 4370159846 | Mandate of Heaven | Heaven would grant the Zhou power only as long as its rulers governed justly and wisely | 24 | |
| 4370159847 | Bureaucracies | Way of organizing government tasks by department, or bureau | 25 | |
| 4370159848 | Bantu migrations | Migrations of farmers in Niger and Benue River valleys in West Africa to south and east; brought Bantu language | 26 | |
| 4370159849 | Jenne-Jeno | First city in sub-Saharan Africa; began as a small fishing settlement; reached urban density but was not hierarchically organized | 27 | |
| 4370159850 | Olmec | Known as Mexico today; 1500-400 BCE; urban society supported by surplus of corn, beans, and squash | 28 | |
| 4370159851 | Chavin | In Andes; 900-200 BCE; access to coast; | 29 | |
| 4405083253 | Mauryan Empire | Founded by Chandragupta Maurya; unified smaller Aryan kingdoms into civilization | 30 | |
| 4405083254 | Ashoka Maurya | Took Maurya Empire to its greatest heights | 31 | |
| 4405349058 | Rock and Pillar Edicts | Carved on rocks and pillars thought the Maurya Empire by Ashoka | 32 | |
| 4405381263 | Gupta Empire | More decentralized and smaller than its predecessor; peaceful; arts and sciences; Chandra Gupta the Great; after Maurya Empire | 33 | |
| 4418792738 | Qin Shi Huang | First emperor of Qin; recentralized feudal kingdoms from end of Zhou Dynasty; standardized laws; refused toleration of dissent | 34 | |
| 4418965440 | Xiongnu | Large nomadic group from northern Asia who may have been Huns; invaded territories from China to Eastern Europe during the Han Dynasty | 35 | |
| 4419090715 | Wu Ti | Enlarged Han Dynasty; to Central Asia; Hun or Xiongnu not very successful because o his skills | 36 |
