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| 4390604076 | hunting foraging bands | nomadic groups that hunted game or collected wild or undomesticated plants for food | 0 | |
| 4390612378 | Neolithic revolutions | hunter foragers settled around areas with steady water supply. irrigation of crops was developed | 1 | |
| 4390627117 | river valley civilizations | first places where Neolithic revolutions occurred. places include: Mesopotamia, the Nile Valley, the Indus River Valley, and the Yellow River Valley. | 2 | |
| 4392274767 | pastoralism/pastoralists | people who did not settle in cities, but raised domesticated animals. they also did not develop ag | 3 | |
| 4392274768 | urbanization | villages grew into cities. development of the specialization of jobs. | 4 | |
| 4392274769 | early empires | an example of this is: Babylonians in Mesopotamia conquered rival cities and took them by force. | 5 | |
| 4392274770 | animism | earliest known form of religion. sees gods on nature. popular in hunting foraging bands | 6 | |
| 4392274771 | polytheism | closely related to animism, but names gods in charge of each thing. example: Greek god Apollo was in charge of the sun | 7 | |
| 4392274772 | monotheism | belief in one god. Judaism in southwest Asia is an example | 8 | |
| 4392274773 | classical era | 600 BCE to 600 CE. empires such as Greek and Roman dynasties, Han Dynasty, Maurya and Gupta empires ruled during this time | 9 | |
| 4392274774 | Hinduism | earliest known organized religion. written codes of faith and class of religious leaders. supports the caste system | 10 | |
| 4392274775 | Buddhism | reform of Hinduism by Siddartha Gautama. he became the Buddha, or "enlightened one" supported spiritual equality and missionary activity | 11 | |
| 4392274776 | Confucianism | based on teachings of Kong Fuzi (Confucius) in 500 BCE. established codes of behavior, gender, and family duties. teachings were philosophy, not religion | 12 | |
| 4392274777 | Christianity | reform of Judaism. Jesus taught eternal salvation through belief he was Messiah sent by god | 13 | |
| 4392274778 | Han empire | existed around the same time as the Roman Empire. one of the largest empires of the classical era. far ahead in technology | 14 | |
| 4392274779 | Mandate of Heaven | reflected the belief that the empire in china would stay in power as long as the heavens were satisfied | 15 | |
| 4392274780 | Chinese examination system | began with the Han dynasty and ended in the 20th century. scholar bureaucrats took an exam to become government scribes | 16 | |
| 4392274781 | Mediterranean civilizations | describes Classical Greek and Roman civilizations | 17 | |
| 4392274782 | Hellenism | blend of Greek and local culture. example: Buddha statue made in Greek style | 18 | |
| 4392274783 | Maurya/Gupta empires | classical empires in South Asia. geographically extensive and powerful. one lasted from 320 BCE to 185 BCE. the other lasted from 320 CE to 550 CE | 19 | |
| 4392274784 | Bantu migrations | migrated south and east from 1000 BCE to 500 CE | 20 | |
| 4392301624 | the Silk Roads | connected East Asia to northern India and Central Asia. silk, tea spices, horses and technology were carried westward | 21 | |
| 4392316350 | Indian Ocean Trade Network | connected to the Silk Roads. traded silver, cotton, spices, and other items | 22 | |
| 4434997550 | fall of classical empires | Han dynasty- 220 CE. western Roman Empire- 476 CE. Gupta empire- mid 6th century. causes: internal pressures, invading nomads, and imported diseases | 23 | |
| 4434997551 | Islam | first preached in 7th century by Muhammad. monotheism. united tribes into common faith. spread rapidly. | 24 | |
| 4434997552 | caliphate | no clear rules of succession after Muhammad. fragmented into regional states (____) | 25 | |
| 4392300192 | the Silk Roads | connected East Asia to northern India and Central Asia. silk | 26 |
