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| 4748098885 | Paleoanthropology | The study of the earliest humans and their environments | 0 | |
| 4748099538 | Myth | An interpretive story of the past they cannot be verified historically but may have a deep moral message | 1 | |
| 4748101549 | Caste | A hierarchical ordering of people into groups fixed from birth based on their inherited ritual status and determining who they may marry and whom they may eat | 2 | |
| 4748104752 | Teleology | The philosophical study of final causes or purposes. Teleology refers especially to any system that interprets nature or the universe is having design or purpose. It has been used to provide evidence for the existence of God | 3 | |
| 4748107091 | Hominid | Any of the family (Hominidae) of erect bipedal primate mammals which includes humans and humanlike species | 4 | |
| 4748110352 | Homo sapiens | Homo, "human," is the genus which modern humans are placed; sapiens means "wise" | 5 | |
| 4749936658 | Homo erectus | The most widespread of all prehistoric hominids and the most similar to humans. Evolved about 2 million years ago and became extinct 100,000 years ago | 6 | |
| 4749942393 | Shaman | In the religious beliefs of some Asian an American tribal societies a person capable of entering into trances and believed to be endowed with supernatural powers with the ability to cure the sick to fin with the ability to cure the sick, find Lost or stolen property, predict the future, and protect the community from evil spirits. A shaman may act is judge will ruler and as a priest a shaman directs communal sacrifices and escorts the soles of the dead to the next world. | 7 | |
| 4749950303 | Neolithic | "New Stone Age," the last division of the Stone Age immediately preceding the development of metallurgy and corresponding to the ninth to the fifth millennia B.C.E. it was characterized by the increasing domestication of animals and cultivation of crops, established agricultural communities, and the appearance of such crafts as pottery and weaving. | 8 | |
| 4749960489 | Innovation | The explanation that similar cultural traits, techniques, or objects found among different groups of people were invented independently rather then spread from one group to another. | 9 | |
| 4749964089 | Diffusion | The spread of ideas, objects, or traits from one culture to another | 10 | |
| 4749969798 | Ziggurat | A temple tower of ancient Mesopotamia, constructed of square or rectangle or terraces of diminishing size, usually with the shrine on top built of blue enamel bricks, the color of the sky | 11 | |
| 4749974568 | Pictogram | (Alternative: pictograph) A pictoral symbol or sign representing an object or concept | 12 | |
| 4749978678 | Cuneiform | A writing system in use in the ancient near East from around the end of the fourth millennium to the first century B.C.E. The earliest examples are in Sumerian. The name derives from the wedge-shaped marks (Latin: cuneus, a wedge) made by pressing the slanted edge of a stylus into soft clay. | 13 | |
| 4749986161 | Ideogram | (Alternative: ideograph) A character or figure in a writing system in which the idea of a thing is represented rather than its name. Languages such as Chinese use ideograms. | 14 | |
| 4749992526 | Hieroglyphics | The characters in a writing system based on the use of pictograms or ideograms. In ancient Egypt, hieroglyphics were largely used for monumental inscriptions. The symbols depict people, animals, and objects, which represent words, syllables, or sounds. | 15 | |
| 4749999409 | Mandate of heaven | A concept in China: the ruler had moral authority so long as the heavenly powers granted it to him on the basis of his good character. A well-functioning government was evidence that the ruler possessed the mandate of heaven. A poorly functioning government showed that the mandate had passed away. | 16 | |
| 4750003450 | Zimbabwes | Stonewalled enclosures or buildings built during the African Iron Age in the region of modern Zimbabwe and Mozambique. The structures with the courts of local rulers. They have been associated with foreign trade, Integrated farming and animal husbandry, and gold production. The great Zimbabwe is the ruins of the former Capital of the Monomatapa empire, situated in Zimbabwe and occupied from around the 13th to the 16th century CE. | 17 | |
| 4750006814 | Master narrative | The conventional, widely accepted View of the historical record. | 18 | |
| 4750008250 | Hegemony | The predominance of one unit over the others in a group, for example, one state in a Confederation. It can also apply to the rule of an empire over it's subject peoples, when the foreign government is exercised with their substantial consent. | 19 | |
| 4750010670 | Dominance | The imposition of alien government through force, as opposed to hegemony. | 20 | |
| 4750012422 | Balance of power | In international relations, a policy that aims to secure piece by preventing any one state or alignment of states from becoming too dominant. Alliances formed in order to build up a force equal or superior to that of the potential enemy. | 21 | |
| 4750013589 | Satrapy | A province or colony in the Achaemenid or Persian empire ruled by a satrap or governor. The term "satrapy" can also refer to the period of rule of a satrap. | 22 | |
| 4750016991 | Deme | A rural District or village in ancient Greece, or its members or inhabitants. The demes were a constituent parts of the polis but had their own corporations with police powers, and their own cults, officials, and property. | 23 | |
| 4750019023 | Hoplite | A heavily armed foot soldier of ancient Greece, whose function was to fight in close formation, usually in ranks of eight men. Each soldier carried a heavily bronze shield, a short Iron sword, and a long spear for thrusting. | 24 | |
| 4750042608 | Pre-civilization | A pre-urban form of living in which all members are involved with the production of, or securing of, the food supply. | 25 | |
| 4750043982 | Tundra zones | Areas of little growth or vegetation; cold climate; not conductive to human habitation | 26 | |
| 4750044507 | Agricultural zones | Areas conductive to agriculture but not usually near trails a rivers; somewhat self contained. | 27 | |
| 4750045831 | Route zones | Areas near water supplies with venues making it possible to travel to other points of the zone, possibly beyond the zone. | 28 | |
| 4750045832 | Impact zones | Zones lying at the boarders of other zones; zones at which cultures meet; often points of recurring battles. | 29 | |
| 4750049361 | Geochronology | Determining the age of pre-civilizations by counting the layers created by melts of water from a receding ice sheet. | 30 | |
| 4750050253 | Dendrochronology | Means of measuring climactic change by viewing the thickness in the layers and branches and around the trunk. Comparative dating of trees in prehistoric settlements has resulted in being able to date the ages of these pre-civilizations. | 31 | |
| 4750052814 | Carbon 14 dating | Determining the age of a pre-civilization by testing the decay of the carbon isotope 14 found in artifacts. | 32 | |
| 4763363345 | Civilization | An urban way of living. Signifies the technological, artistic, literary, legal, and ethical accomplishments of any given advance society. | 33 | |
| 4763363346 | Pastoral societies | A social group of pastoralist whose ways of life is based on pastoralist, and is typically nomadic. Daily life is centered upon the tending of herds or flocks. | 34 | |
| 4794823080 | Culture | The sum of attitudes, customs, and beliefs that distinguishes one group of people from another. Culture is transmitted, through language, material objects, ritual, institutions, and art, from one generation to the next. | 35 |
