4794305081 | Dreamtime | The time in the Aboriginal belief system when all living things were created; the "golden age" when the first ancestors were created. | 0 | |
4794655890 | Culture | Beliefs, customs, and traditions of a specific group of people. | 1 | |
4794660777 | Hieroglyphs | System of writing in which pictorial symbols represented sounds, syllables, or concepts. Used for official and monumental inscriptions in ancient Egypt. | 2 | |
4794665125 | Neolithic | The period of the Stone Age associated with the ancient Agricultural Revolution. It follows the Paleolithic period. | 3 | |
4794667373 | Paleothic | (750,000 BCE - 10,000 B.C.E.) Old Stone Age. A period of time in human history characterized by the use of stone tools and the use of hunting and gathering as a food source. (and use of fire) | 4 | |
4794649680 | Mohenjo Daro | Largest city of the Indus Valley civilization. It was centrally located in the extensive floodplain of the Indus River. Little is known about the political institutions of Indus Valley communities, but the large-scale implies central planning. | 5 | |
4794680317 | Ziggurat | massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mudbricks. It is associated with religious complexes in ancient Mesopotamian cities, but its function is unknown. | 6 | |
4795245985 | Shamans | People believed to be especially skilled at dealing with the spirits of the dead. | 7 | |
4817954521 | Pyramids | Monumental architecture typical of Old Kingdom Egypt; used as burial sites for pharaohs | 8 | |
4817960951 | Civilzations | Societies with reliance on sedentary agriculture, ability to produce food surpluses, and existence of nonfarming elites, along with merchant and manufacturing groups | 9 | |
4817975433 | Cuneiform | A form of writing developed by the Sumerians using a wedge-shaped stylus and clay tablets | 10 | |
4817988135 | Domestication | the taming of an animal. | 11 | |
4817988136 | Bantu | An African language from Niger and Benue River Valleys. | 12 | |
4817994835 | Patriarchy | A system of family organization led by the eldest male and was used extensively/ male dominance over women | 13 | |
4818007496 | Mandate of Heaven | a political theory of ancient China in which those in power were given the right to rule from a divine source | 14 | |
4818041409 | Cheifdom | the territory or people over which a chief rules. | 15 | |
4818045105 | Egalitarian | asserting, resulting from, or characterized by belief in the equality of all people, especially in political, economic, or social life; a person who believes equality of all people | 16 | |
4818052458 | Pastorilism | herding and breeding of sheep and goats or other animals as a primary means of substinence | 17 | |
4818054966 | Quipu | series of colored knotted strings, signaling what was being counted; means of record keeping by Andean South American | 18 | |
4818054967 | Sedentary | No movement | 19 | |
4818192304 | Teotihuacan | A large central city in the Mesoamerican region. Located about 25 miles Northeast of present day Mexico City. Exhibited city planning and unprecedented size for its time. Reached its peak around the year 450. Most important Mesoamerican city | 20 | |
4818206051 | Bureacracy | Organized system of administration of a government chiefly through bureaus or departments staffed with non elected officials. | 21 | |
4818211643 | Diffusion | The spread of ideas, objects, or traits from one culture to another | 22 | |
4818222678 | Metallurgy | the branch of science and technology concerned with the properties of metals and their production and purification; Extraction of metal from its ores. | 23 | |
4818235252 | Son of Heaven | The Chinese Emperor during the belief of the Mandate of Heaven | 24 | |
4818254369 | Hierarchy | A system or organization in which people or groups are ranked one above the other according to status or authority. | 25 | |
4818258828 | Ice Age | A glacial episode during a past geological period. | 26 | |
4818262921 | Agriculture | the science or practice of farming, including cultivation of the soil for the growing of crops and the rearing of animals to provide food, wool, and other products. | 27 | |
4818267457 | Foraging | Obtain food or provisions from (a place) | 28 | |
4818283459 | Human Revolution | It refers to the spectacular and relatively sudden emergence of language, consciousness and culture | 29 | |
4818270371 | Austronesian | of, relating to, or denoting a family of languages spoken in an area extending from Madagascar in the west to the Pacific islands in the east. | 30 | |
4818277808 | Salinization | the process by which a non-saline soil becomes saline, as by the irrigation of land with brackish water. | 31 | |
4818282797 | Disseminate | to scatter or spread widely, as though sowing seed; promulgate extensively; broadcast; disperse: | 32 | |
4818305267 | Migration | movement from one part of something to another. | 33 | |
4818309640 | Intensification | The process of getting more in return for less; for example, growing more food on a smaller plot of land. | 34 |
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