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| 4791567844 | Archaeology | The study of human history and prehistory through the excavation of sites and the analysis of artifacts and other physical remains. | 0 | |
| 4791570273 | Anthropology | The study of humankind, in particular. | 1 | |
| 4791570274 | History | The study of past events, particularly in human affairs. | 2 | |
| 4791571410 | Primary Source | An artifact, a document, diary, manuscript, autobiography, a recording, or other source of information that was created at the time under study. | 3 | |
| 4791574571 | Civilization | The process by which a society or place reaches an advanced stage of social development and organization. | 4 | |
| 4791574572 | Culture | the beliefs, customs, arts, etc., of a particular society, group, place, or time | 5 | |
| 4791577280 | Paleolithic | The early phase of the stone age lasting about 2.5 million years. | 6 | |
| 4791579047 | Clovis Culture | A prehistoric Paleo-Indian culture, named after distinct stone tools found at sites near Clovis, New Mexico, in the 1920s and 1930s | 7 | |
| 4791580715 | Neolithic (agricultural revolution) | The wide-scale transition of many human cultures from a lifestyle of hunting and gathering to one of agriculture and settlement, allowing the ability to handle an increasingly larger population. | 8 | |
| 4791582107 | Foragers | A hunter-gatherer | 9 | |
| 4791583542 | Pastoralists | A social and economic system based on the raising and herding of livestock. | 10 | |
| 4791584553 | Diffusion | The spreading of something more widely | 11 | |
| 4791586995 | Syncretism | A union or attempted fusion of different religions, cultures, or philosophies | 12 | |
| 4791582108 | Megalith | a large stone that forms a prehistoric monument | 13 | |
| 4791595860 | City- State | a city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state. | 14 | |
| 4792655798 | Patriarchy | a system of society or government in which the father or eldest male is head of the family and descent is traced through the male line. | 15 | |
| 4792655805 | Fertile Crescent | the region in the Middle East which curves, like a quarter-moon shape, from the Persian Gulf, through modern-day southern Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel and northern Egypt. | 16 | |
| 4792666463 | Catalhuyuk | a 32-acre Neolithic site in south-central Turkey, dated c6500-5500 b.c., one of the first true cities, characterized by a fully developed agriculture and extensive trading, particularly in obsidian, and having frescoed temples, mud-brick fortifications and houses, and mother-goddess figures. | 17 | |
| 4792667127 | Sumerians | A member of the indigenous non-Semitic people of ancient Babylonia. | 18 | |
| 4792667128 | Babylon | Babylon is the most famous city from ancient Mesopotamia whose ruins lie in modern-day Iraq 59 miles (94 kilometers) southwest of Baghdad. The name is thought to derive from bav-il or bav-ilim which, in the Akkadian language of the time, meant 'Gate of God' or `Gate of the Gods' and `Babylon' coming from Greek. | 19 | |
| 4792670517 | Hammurabi | Hammurabi (also known as Khammurabi and Ammurapi, reigned 1792-1750 BCE) was the sixth king of the Amorite First Dynasty of Babylon, assumed the throne from his father, Sin-Muballit, and expanded the kingdom to conquer all of ancient Mesopotamia. | 20 | |
| 4792671437 | Ziggurat | (in ancient Mesopotamia) a rectangular stepped tower, sometimes surmounted by a temple. Ziggurats are first attested in the late 3rd millennium BC and probably inspired the biblical story of the Tower of Babel (Gen. 11:1-9). | 21 | |
| 4792673077 | 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. | 22 | |
| 4792673078 | Memphis | An ancient city of Egypt south of Cairo. Reputedly founded by Menes, the first king of united Egypt, it was the chief city of the Nile delta until the foundation of Alexandria. Its remains include an extensive necropolis. | 23 | |
| 4792675161 | Thebes | An ancient city in Upper Egypt, on the Nile, whose ruins are located in the modern towns of Karnak and Luxor: a former capital of Egypt. | 24 | |
| 4792675162 | Pharaoh | A ruler of ancient Egypt | 25 | |
| 4792676270 | Pyramid | A monumental structure with a square or triangular base and sloping sides that meet in a point at the top, especially one built of stone as a royal tomb in ancient Egypt. | 26 | |
| 4792676271 | Scribe | A person who copies out documents, especially one employed to do this before printing was invented. | 27 | |
| 4792681071 | 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. | 28 | |
| 4792681072 | Papyrus | A material prepared in ancient Egypt from the pithy stem of a water plant, used in sheets throughout the ancient Mediterranean world for writing or painting on and also for making rope, sandals, and boats. | 29 | |
| 4792685826 | Harappa | A village in Pakistan: site of successive cities of the Indus valley civilization. | 30 | |
| 4792688436 | Mohenjo- Daro | Mohenjo-Daro was built in the 26th century BCE. It was one of the largest cities of the ancient Indus Valley Civilization, also known as the Harappan Civilization, which developed around 3000 BCE from the prehistoric Indus culture. | 31 | |
| 4792688437 | Shang Dynasty | according to traditional historiography, ruled in the Yellow River valley in the second millennium BC, succeeding the Xia dynasty and followed by the Zhou dynasty. | 32 | |
| 4792697508 | Zhou Dynasty | A mountain range in W South America, extending about 4500 miles (7250 km) from N Colombia and Venezuela S to Cape Horn. Highest peak, Aconcagua, 22,834 feet (6960 meters). | 33 | |
| 4792698706 | Mandate of Heaven | An ancient Chinese belief/theory and philosophical idea that tiān (heaven) granted emperors the right to rule based on their ability to govern well, appropriately and fairly. | 34 | |
| 4792700009 | Mesoamerica | Mesoamerica is a region and cultural area in the Americas, extending approximately from central Mexico to Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and northern Costa Rica | 35 | |
| 4792700010 | Olmec | a member of a prehistoric people inhabiting the coast of Veracruz and western Tabasco on the Gulf of Mexico ( circa 1200-400 BC), who established what was probably the first Meso-American civilization. | 36 | |
| 4792701348 | Teosinate | The wild ancestor of maize. | 37 | |
| 4792701349 | Andes | A mountain range in W South America, extending about 4500 miles (7250 km) from N Colombia and Venezuela S to Cape Horn. Highest peak, Aconcagua, 22,834 feet (6960 meters). | 38 | |
| 4792702520 | Chavin | An early pre-Incan civilization that flourished in northern and central Peru from about 900 to 200 bc, known for its carved stone sculptures and boldly designed ceramics | 39 | |
| 4792705356 | Liama | a hoofed animal indigenous to the Andes Mountains in South America | 40 | |
| 4792706344 | Hierarchy | a system or organization in which people or groups are ranked one above the other according to status or authority. | 41 | |
| 4792706345 | Migrations | movement from one part of something to another. | 42 | |
| 4792707714 | Bantu migration | The Bantu Migration, or Bantu expansion, was a series of migrations of the Bantu people from the Congo area to present day Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania, because of drought, famine, and population increase | 43 | |
| 4792710063 | Austronesian migration | People speaking Austronesian languages completed the human settlement of the earth recently as they settled on the islands of the vast Pacific and penetrated the Indian Ocean to Madagascar, off the coast of southeast Africa. | 44 | |
| 4792711876 | Chiefdoms | a form of hierarchical political organization in non-industrial societies usually based on kinship, and in which formal leadership is monopolized by the legitimate senior members of select families or 'houses' | 45 |
