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| 2820888346 | Civilization | the stage of human social development and organization that is considered most advanced | 0 | |
| 2820888347 | Monumental Agriculture | to archaeologists anyway, refers to large man-made structures of stone or earth | 1 | |
| 2820888951 | Ziggurat | a rectangular stepped tower, sometimes surmounted by a temple | 2 | |
| 2820888952 | Cuneiform | denoting or relating to the wedge-shaped characters used in the ancient writing systems of Mesopotamia | 3 | |
| 2820889273 | Hieroglyphics | designating or pertaining to a pictographic script, particularly that of the ancient Egyptians, in which many of the symbols are conventionalized, recognizable pictures of the things represented | 4 | |
| 2820889957 | Vedas/Vedic Tradition | the most ancient Hindu scriptures, written in early Sanskrit and containing hymns, philosophy, and guidance on ritual for the priests of Vedic religion | 5 | |
| 2820889958 | Zoroastrianism | an Iranian religion, founded c600 b.c. by Zoroaster, the principal beliefs of which are in the existence of a supreme deity, Ahura Mazda, and in a cosmic struggle between a spirit of good and a spirit of evil | 6 | |
| 2820890688 | Polytheism | the belief of many gods | 7 | |
| 2820890689 | Monotheism | the belief of one god | 8 | |
| 2820891103 | Environmental Determinism | the belief that the physical environment predisposes human social development towards particular trajectories | 9 | |
| 2820891388 | Mandate of Heaven | an ancient Chinese belief and philosophical idea that tiān (heaven) granted emperors the right to rule based on their ability to govern well and fairly | 10 | |
| 2820891902 | Pictographic Writing | a form of writing which uses representational, pictorial drawings, similarly to cuneiform and, to some extent, hieroglyphic writing, which also uses drawings as phonetic letters or determinative rhymes | 11 | |
| 2820892272 | Oracle Bones | pieces of turtle shell or bone, normally from ox scapulae or turtle plastrons, which were used for pyromancy - a form of divination - in ancient China, mainly during the late Shang dynasty | 12 | |
| 2820892273 | Pharoh | a ruler in ancient Egypt | 13 | |
| 2820892274 | Ur | city of ancient Sumer | 14 | |
| 2820892275 | Centralized | concentrate (control of an activity or organization) under a single authority | 15 | |
| 2820892744 | Decentralized | transfer (authority) from central to local government | 16 | |
| 2820892745 | City-States | a city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state | 17 | |
| 2820893557 | Ancestor Veneration | the custom of venerating deceased ancestors who are considered still a part of the family and whose spirits are believed to have the power to intervene in the affairs of the living | 18 | |
| 2820893558 | Aryans | relating to or denoting a people speaking an Indo-European language who invaded northern India in the 2nd millennium BC | 19 | |
| 2820893559 | Hierarchy | a system or organization in which people or groups are ranked one above the other according to status or authority | 20 | |
| 2820893973 | Divine | of, from, or like God or a god | 21 | |
| 2820893974 | Bartering | exchange (goods or services) for other goods or services without using money | 22 | |
| 2820893975 | Irrigation | the watering of land to make it ready for agriculture | 23 | |
| 2820894799 | Hammarabi's Code | a well-preserved Babylonian law code of ancient Mesopotamia, dating back to about 1754 BCE. It is one of the oldest deciphered writings of significant length in the world | 24 | |
| 2820894800 | Iron Metallurgy | 1000 BCE used iron, replaced bronze b/c bronze was too expensive | 25 | |
| 2820894861 | Chariots | a two-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle used in ancient warfare and racing | 26 |
