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| 4743401167 | Periodization (BCE&CE, BC&AD) | BCE: before common era CE: common era BC: before Christ AD: anno domini | 0 | |
| 4774834992 | Paleolithic | the Old Stone Age | 1 | |
| 4774835318 | Neolithic | the New Stone Age; started using agriculture | 2 | |
| 4743401932 | metallurgy | study of metal | 3 | |
| 4743404322 | textile | type of cloth | 4 | |
| 4743404643 | Neolithic Revolution | aka agricultural revolution; the beginning of farming | 5 | |
| 4743405199 | Epic of Gilgamesh | a long epic poem | 6 | |
| 4774835581 | irrigation | method in which water is supplied to crops for agriculture | 7 | |
| 4743455809 | Hammurabi's Code | a uniform code of law that deals with every aspect of life | 8 | |
| 4743462431 | cuneiform | a system of writing used in Sumer | 9 | |
| 4743463300 | Moses | the man who led the Israelites out of Egypt (Judaism) | 10 | |
| 4743463646 | polytheism | belief in many gods | 11 | |
| 4743463905 | semitic | indicates people who speak Hebrew, Arabic, or Aramaic | 12 | |
| 4743465014 | city-state | a city and its surrounding land which functions as its own independent country | 13 | |
| 4743466188 | Indo-Europeans | group of nomadic people who came from the steppes | 14 | |
| 4774841078 | pastoral nomads | moves around to find fresh pastures for livestock | 15 | |
| 4774843628 | Hebrews, Jews, Israelites | =same thing | 16 | |
| 4774843871 | Abraham | "father of the Jewish people" | 17 | |
| 4774844220 | monotheism | belief in a single god | 18 | |
| 4743468184 | Phoenicians | excellent seafarers; created the alphabet; large network of trade | 19 | |
| 4743468997 | savannah | tropical grasslands | 20 | |
| 4743471337 | pharaoh | Egyptian king who acted as a god | 21 | |
| 4743471455 | mercenary | a soldier who is paid to fight in a foreign army | 22 | |
| 4743473035 | hieroglyphics | Egyptian system of writing | 23 | |
| 4743473158 | Rosetta Stone | black stone inscribed in three languages (Greek, hieroglyphics, simple hieroglyphics; helped to translate hieroglyphics | 24 | |
| 4743474523 | Aryans | one group of Indo-Europeans who moved into the Indus river valley | 25 | |
| 4743480744 | Brahman | highest position in the caste system; priest | 26 | |
| 4743482139 | karma | goods or bad deeds | 27 | |
| 4743482370 | dharma | Buddhist doctrines | 28 | |
| 4743483003 | ascetic | practice of severe self-discipline | 29 | |
| 4743485363 | Shang dynasty | first to leave written records (probably on the oracle bones) | 30 | |
| 4743485799 | Zhou dynasty | start of Mandate of Heaven and feudalism | 31 | |
| 4743486241 | Qin dynasty | used Legalist ideas to subdue the warring state; program of centralization | 32 | |
| 4743487697 | Han dynasty | established a centralizing policy; encouraged Confucianism; advances in technology | 33 | |
| 4743488614 | mandate of heaven | the right from God to rule | 34 | |
| 4743488811 | decentralized administration | admisitration rulers entrust power to subordinates who owed allegiance,tribute, and military support to the gov't | 35 | |
| 4743490944 | royal court | place where an important ruler lives | 36 | |
| 4774846809 | artisans | skilled workers who make goods by hand | 37 | |
| 4743600313 | maize | corn; cultivated in the Americas | 38 | |
| 4743600567 | Bering land bridge | a land bridge that appeared during the Ice Age which connected Alaska and Russia. | 39 | |
| 4774847697 | Tigris-Euphrates civilization | built city-states; polytheistic; used cuneiform | 40 | |
| 4774850058 | Nile civilization | pharaoh=god; theocracy; positive view of the afterlife; pyramids and mummification; use of hieroglyphics and invented papyrus | 41 | |
| 4774852246 | Indus river valley civilization | had sophisticated city planning (used standard size bricks); sewage system | 42 | |
| 4774853189 | Huang He civilization | oracle bones (Shang); dynastic cycle (Mandate of Heaven) | 43 |
