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| 2858555196 | Homo Sapiens | The humanoid species that emerged as most successful at the end of the Paleolithic period | 0 | |
| 2858569026 | Nomads | Hunters and gatherers who moved back and forth between the same forests and grazing areas year after year to follow migrating herds of game | 1 | |
| 2863090143 | Band | Group of around 20 to 30 people; usually nomads | 2 | |
| 2863114020 | Natufian Complex | Preagricultural settlements located in modern-day Israel, and Lebanon. Grew wheat and barely along with hunting game. | 3 | |
| 2863123553 | Matrilocal | Young men went to live with their wives' families; Natufian society was possible matrilocal | 4 | |
| 2863137221 | Matrilineal | Family descent/inheritance traced through the female line; Natufian society was possibly matrilineal | 5 | |
| 2863183312 | Neolithic Revolution | The succession of technological innovations and changes in human organization that led to agricultural society | 6 | |
| 2863189646 | Pastoralism | A nomadic agricultural lifestyle based on hearing domesticated animals; produced independent societies just as or more capable than sedentary ones | 7 | |
| 2863210890 | Jericho | Early walled urban culture sites based on sedentary agriculture; located in modern Iraeli-ocuppied West Bank near the Jordan River | 8 | |
| 2863225963 | Catal Hüyük | Early urban culture based on sedentary agriculture; located in modern south Turkey; was larger in population and had more social stratification | 9 | |
| 2863347853 | Sumerians | People who migrated into Mesopotamia and created the first civilization in the region; was organized into city-states; developed the first writing system | 10 | |
| 2863368426 | City-State | Separated into agricultural hinterlands in which urban king ruled | 11 | |
| 2863373217 | Cuneiform | Sumerian writing using wedge-shaped utensils; used to write the first story in history: "The Epic of Gilgamesh" | 12 | |
| 2863390182 | The Epic of Gilgamesh | The first story in all history; written by the Sumerians in Cuneiform; showed their religious culture | 13 | |
| 2863407028 | Ziggurats | Massive towers usually associated with Mesopotamian temple complexes | 14 | |
| 2863418888 | Animism | The idea that a divine force lay within natural objects (such as rivers, trees, mountains, etc.); helped explained nature; typical of Mesopotamian religions | 15 | |
| 2863430317 | Civilization | Societies distinguished by reliance on sedentary culture, the ability to produce food surpluses, the existence of non-farming elites, as well as merchant and manufacturing groups | 16 | |
| 2863449057 | Sargon I | Ruler of the Mesopotamian city-state Akkad; established the first empire in Mesopotamian civilization by conquering all the other city-states; began the Akkadian empire which lasted around 200 years | 17 | |
| 2863466551 | Babylonian Empire | The new empire after the Akkadian Empire; unified Mesopotamia once again | 18 | |
| 2863483908 | Hammurabi | Leader of the Babylonian Empire; codified the laws of Hammurabi which set general standards for justice (was the first known set of laws of its kind in all of history) | 19 | |
| 2863522316 | Hittites | An Indo-Eurpean people from Asia who entered Mesopotamia; destroyed Babylonian Empire; a series of smaller kingdoms disputed the region after the Hittites yielded | 20 | |
| 2863533676 | Pharaoh | Egyptian kings (and very rarely queens later on) who were seen as "God Kings" or rulers who were gods on earth and had direct connections to the gods | 21 | |
| 2863541714 | Narmer | The first Egyptian pharaoh of the Old Kingdom; conquered petty kings around the Egypt area and politically unified Egypt | 22 | |
| 2863551560 | Akhenaton | An Egyptian pharaoh late in Egyptian history who tried to replace the pantheon with one god which could only be communicated with through him and his wife, Nefertiti. Removed the priest's power and gave it to himself and and his wife. This failed however, and when he died his wife reestablished the old pantheon to appease the people and the priests | 23 | |
| 2863564993 | Pyramids | Large tomb structures meant to house the tombs of (usually) royal families | 24 | |
| 2863571313 | Patriarchal | Everything run by men; men are the leaders and superior to women; most agricultural societies were patriarchies | 25 | |
| 2863580373 | Mummification | The act of preserving the bodies of the dead; was practiced in ancient Egypt for the afterlife in which it was believed that their mortal bodies were used | 26 | |
| 2863586330 | Kush | An African state that developed along the upper regions of the Nile; conquered Egypt and ruled it for several centuries; first known African state other than Egypt | 27 | |
| 2863601648 | Meroë | The Southern capital of the Kushite Kingdom; was located on the east bank of the Nile River in modern Sudan | 28 | |
| 2863612122 | Monotheism | The exclusive worship of a single god; introduced by Jews who were one of the only people who practiced Monotheism; most people before the Jews were polytheistic or believed in a form of Animism | 29 | |
| 2863633125 | Minoan | A civilization that developed on the island of Crete; traded a lot with the Mesopotamian and Egyptian empires so adopted a lot of their culture; capital at the place complex of Knosnos | 30 | |
| 2863642070 | Phoenicians | A seafaring civilization located on the shores of the eastern Mediterranean; established colonies/cities throughout the Mediterranean | 31 |
