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| 3597455870 | HUMAN PREHISTORY- EARLY CIVILIZATIONS | 2.5 MILLION- 1000 BCE | 0 | |
| 3597360152 | Homo Sapiens sapiens~ | The humanoid species that emerged as most successful at the end of the Paleolithic period. P. 11 | 1 | |
| 3597355897 | Paleolithic (Old Stone) Age | The Old Stone Age ending in 12,000 BCE; typified by use of crude stone tools and hunting and gathering for subsistence. P.10 | 2 | |
| 3597363375 | Neolithic (New Stone) Age | The New Stone Age between 8,000 and 5,000 BCE; period in which adaptation of sedentary agriculture occurred; domestication of plants and animals accomplished. P. 12 | 3 | |
| 3597368149 | Neolithic Revolution | The succession of technological innovation and changes in human organization that led to the development of agriculture. 8,500-3,500 BCE. P. 13 | 4 | |
| 3597371782 | hunting and gathering | 5 | ||
| 3597373228 | Bronze Age | From about 4,000 BCE when bronze tools were first introduced in the Middle East, to about 1,500 BCE when Iron began to replace it. P 15 | 6 | |
| 3597374912 | Slash and burn Agriculture | A system of cultivation typical of shifting cultivators; forest floors cleared by fire are then planted. P15 | 7 | |
| 3597378037 | Bands | A level of social organization normally consisting of 20-30 people; nomadic hunters and gatherers; labor divided by gender. P. 15 | 8 | |
| 3597380349 | Çatal Hüyük | Early urban culture based on sedentary agriculture; located in modern southern Turkey; was larger in population than Jericho, had greater degree of social stratification. P15 | 9 | |
| 3597383177 | Civilization | Societies distinguished by reliance on sedentary agriculture, ability to produce and food surpluses, and existence of nonfarming elites, as well as merchants and manufacturing groups. P16 | 10 | |
| 3597386584 | Cuneiform | A form of writing developed by the Sumerians using wedge shaped styles and clay tablets. P17 | 11 | |
| 3597387826 | Nomads | Cattle and sheep herding societies found on the fringes of civilized societies; commonly referred to as 'barbarian' by civilized societies P18 | 12 | |
| 3597389333 | Mesopotamia | Literally "between the rivers": the civilization that arose in the alluvial plain of the Tigris and the Euphrates river valleys. P 18 | 13 | |
| 3597390810 | Sumerians | People who migrated into Mesopotamia c. 1000 BCE created first civilization within region; organized into city- states. P19 | 14 | |
| 3597392688 | Ziggurats | Massive towers usually associated with Mesopotamian temple complexes P 20 | 15 | |
| 3597393683 | City - States | A form of political organization typical of Mesopotamian civilizations; consisted of agricultural hinterlands ruled by an urban based king P20 | 16 | |
| 3597425771 | Babylonians | Unified all of Mesopotamia c. 1800 BCE; Collapsed due to foreign invasions c. 1600 BCE p20 | 17 | |
| 3597430914 | Hammurabi | (r. 1792-1750 BCE) The most important ruler of the Babylonian empire, responsible for codification of law. | 18 | |
| 3597432299 | Pharaoh | p20 | 19 | |
| 3597434572 | pyramids | monumental architecture typical of Old Kingdom Egypt; used as burial sites for pharaohs p22 | 20 | |
| 3597435001 | kush | An African state that developed along the upper reaches of the Nile c. 1000 BCE ; conquered Egypt and ruled it for several centuries p22 | 21 | |
| 3597436246 | Indus River | River sources in Himalayas to mouth in Arabian sea; location of Harappan Civilization p22 | 22 | |
| 3597438626 | Harappa | Along with Mohenjodaro, major urban complex of the Harappan civilizations; laid out on planned grid patterns p22 | 23 | |
| 3597440384 | Mohenjo Daro | Along with Harappa, major urban complex of the Harappan civilizations; laid out on planned grid patterns p22 | 24 | |
| 3597441799 | Huanghe (Yellow River) | p22 | 25 | |
| 3597443359 | ideographic | pictographic characters grouped together to create new concepts; typical of Chinese writing p23 | 26 | |
| 3597444900 | shang | First Chinese Dynasty for which archeological evidence exists; capital located in Ordos bulge of the Huanghe; flourished 1600 to 1046 bce p23 | 27 | |
| 3597447539 | Phoenicians | Seafaring civilization located on the shores of the eastern Mediterranean; established the colonies throughout the Mediterranean p26 | 28 | |
| 3597450622 | monotheism | the exclusive worship of a single god; introduced by the Jews into Western Civilization p26 | 29 | |
| 3597454344 | CLASSICAL PERIOD | 1000BCE- 500 CE | 30 | |
| 3597456799 | Shi Huangdi | Founder of the brief Qin dynasty in 221 BCE p40 | 31 | |
| 3597498114 | qin | Established in 221 BCE at the end of the Warring States period following the decline of the Zhou dynasty; (fell in 207 BCE P40 | 32 | |
| 3597501764 | HAN | Chinese dynasty that succeeded the Qin dynasty in 202 BCE; ruled for the next 400 years p41 | 33 | |
| 3597506485 | dao (Daoism) | Philosophy associated with Laozi; stressed need for alignment with Dao, or cosmic force p41 | 34 | |
| 3597513203 | zhou | originally a vassal family of shang china; possible Turkic in origin; overthrew the Shang and established second historical Chinese dynasty that flourished 1122 to 256 BCE p41 | 35 | |
| 3597516233 | confucious | 36 |
