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| 4814056244 | Hominids | a creature belonging to the family hominidae, which includes human and humanlike species | 0 | |
| 4814062927 | Homo Sapiens | "consciously thinking human," which first appeared around two hundred fifty thousand years ago and used sophisticated tools | 1 | |
| 4814074831 | Homo erectus | Upwright walking human | 2 | |
| 4814077250 | Paleolithic | old stone age. long period of human developement before the developement of agriculture | 3 | |
| 4814088867 | lucy | 4 | ||
| 4814090572 | Australopithecus | southern ape. Oldest known ancestor of humans | 5 | |
| 4814097502 | Neandertals | early humans who were prevalent during the paleolithic period | 6 | |
| 4814101728 | venus figurines | small paleolithic statues of women with exaggerated sexual features. | 7 | |
| 4814106428 | Neolithic | new stone age. marked by the discovery and mastery of agriculture | 8 | |
| 4814161907 | epic of gilgamesh | an epic poem from ancient Mesopotamia. it is often regarded as the earliest surviving great work of literature. | 9 | |
| 4814168798 | semitic | a term that relates to the semites, ancient nomadic herders who spoke semitic languages: examples of semites were the akkadians, hebrews, aramaics, and phoenicians, who often interacted with the more settles societies of mesopotamia and egypt. | 10 | |
| 4814180260 | Ziggurates | mespotamian temples | 11 | |
| 4814182078 | sargon of akkad | was the first ruler of the Semitic-speaking Akkadian Empire | 12 | |
| 4814200681 | Hammurabi | Babylonian king (1792-1750) who made Babylon the chief Mesopotamian kingdom and codified the laws of Mesopotamia and Sumeria. | 13 | |
| 4814210137 | assyrians | southwest asian people who built an empire that reached its height during the eighth and seventh centuries BCE; it was known for a powerful army and a well structured state | 14 | |
| 4814220262 | Cuneiform | denoting or relating to the wedge-shaped characters used in the ancient writing systems of Mesopotamia, Persia, and Ugarit, surviving mainly impressed on clay tablets. | 15 | |
| 4814244569 | pastorialism | the branch of agriculture concerned with the raising of livestock | 16 | |
| 4814249277 | hebrews | semitic-speaking nomadic tribe influential for monotheistic believe yahweh | 17 | |
| 4814257904 | Torah | the law of God as revealed to Moses and recorded in the first five books of the Hebrew scriptures | 18 | |
| 4814284620 | Phoenician | a native or inhabitant of ancient Phoenicia | 19 | |
| 4814292463 | Indo-European migrations | peoples migrated into Europe, India, and Southwest Asia and interacted with peoples living there. | 20 | |
| 4814877532 | Hittites | an Ancient Anatolian people who established an empire centered on Hattusa in north-central Anatolia around 1600 BC. | 21 | |
| 4814883325 | Pharaohs | Egyptian kings to be considered gods on earth | 22 | |
| 4814887982 | Kingdom of Kush | was an ancient Nubian kingdom situated on the confluences of the Blue Nile, White Nile and River Atbara in what is now the Republic of Sudan. | 23 | |
| 4814925112 | Iron metallurgy | 24 | ||
| 4814953582 | Bantu | African peoples who originally lived in the area of presentday Nigeria | 25 | |
| 4814955928 | Bantu Migrations | peoples migrated from Western Africa-- near modern-day Nigeria-- southward and eastward, spreading out across all of the southern half of the African continent. | 26 | |
| 4814964157 | Harappan | Early Brilliant indian society centered in harappa and mohenjo-daro | 27 | |
| 4814970382 | Aryans | Indo-europeans migrants who settled in india after 1500 bce | 28 | |
| 4814977556 | Dravidians | A family of leanguages spoken in the southern india and sri lanka, or the peoples who speak them. Some scholars believe dravidians were the original inhabitants of india prior to aryan settlement, though this is controversial | 29 | |
| 4814989115 | Vedas | Wisdoms early collections of prayers and hymns that provide information about the indo-european aryans who migrated into india around 1500bce | 30 | |
| 4814993254 | sanskrit | an ancient Indic language of India, in which the Hindu scriptures and classical Indian epic poems are written and from which many northern Indian languages are derived. | 31 | |
| 4815019034 | Caste system and the varnas | 32 | ||
| 4815022395 | Jati | Indian word for a hindu subcaste | 33 | |
| 4815049469 | Laws of manu | date of publication uncertain but believed to be about 200 BC - was a hybrid moral-religious-law code and one of the first written law codes of Asia | 34 | |
| 4815056318 | Sati | Also known as suttee, indian practice of a widow throwing herself on the funeral pyre of her husband | 35 | |
| 4815062393 | Upanishads | Indian reflections and dialogues that reflected basic hindu concepts | 36 | |
| 4815072399 | Brahman | Hindu caste of priests | 37 | |
| 4815077957 | Karma | Hindu concepts that the sum of good and bad in a persons life will determine his or her status in the next life | 38 | |
| 4815086654 | Yangshao | early chinese society | 39 | |
| 4815089633 | Mandate of heaven | Chinese belief that the emperors ruled through the mandate, or approval, of heaven contingent on their ability to look after the welfare of the population | 40 | |
| 4815099972 | Period of warring states | Last centuries of the Zhou dynasty when wars divided the region until the establishment of the qin dynasty ended the disunity | 41 | |
| 4815124925 | Oracles bones | Chinese shang dynasty means of foretelling the future | 42 | |
| 4815128424 | Olmec | Early mesoamerican society that centered on sites at san lorenzo, La venta, and the tres zapotes and that influenced later maya | 43 | |
| 4815138132 | Maya | Brilliant central american society known for math, astronomy, and a sophisticated written language | 44 | |
| 4815144398 | Tikal | Maya political center from the fourth through the ninth century | 45 | |
| 4815152930 | Teotihaucan | Central american society; it's pyramid of the sun was the largest structure in mesoamerica | 46 | |
| 4815162723 | Blood-letting rituals | Maya culture was also a means to a vision quest, where fasting, loss of blood, and perhaps hallucinogenics lead to visions of ancestors or gods. | 47 | |
| 4815164715 | Chavin cult | Mysterious but very popular south american religion | 48 | |
| 4815168396 | Mochica state | Pre incan south american society known for their brilliant ceramics | 49 | |
| 4815179575 | Oceania | Term referring to the atlantic ocean and it's land | 50 | |
| 4815181203 | Austronesian peoples | People who was early as 2000bce began to explore and settle islands of the pacific ocean basin | 51 | |
| 4815188587 | Lapita peoples | first people to penetrate Remote Oceania. | 52 |
