4830529813 | Archaeology | The study of human history and prehistoric through the excavation of sites and the analysis of artifacts and other physical remains. | 0 | |
4830530752 | Anthropology | The comparative study of human societies and cultures and their developments. | 1 | |
4830530753 | History | The study of past events, particularly in human affairs. | 2 | |
4830531701 | Primary Source | An artifact, a document, diary, manuscript, autobiography, a record, or other source of information that was created at the time under study. | 3 | |
4830534305 | Secondary Source | Information is one that was created later by someone who didn't experience first-hand or participate in the events or conditions you're researching. | 4 | |
4830534306 | Civilization | The stage of human social development and organization that is considered most advanced. | 5 | |
4830535257 | Culture | The arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively. | 6 | |
4830536518 | Paleolithic | Of, relating to, or denoting the early phase of the Stone Age, lasting bout 2.5 million years, when primitive stone implements were used. | 7 | |
4830536519 | Clovis Culture | A prehistoric Native American culture that first appears in the archaeological record of North America around 13,500 years ago, at the end of the last ice age | 8 | |
4830538819 | Neolithic (agricultural revolution) | Of, relating to or denoting the later part of the Stone Age, when ground or polished stone weapons, and implements prevailed. | 9 | |
4830538820 | Foragers | To search about; seek rummage; hunt. | 10 | |
4830540850 | Pastoralists | A sheep or cattle farmer. | 11 | |
4830540851 | Diffusion | The spreading of something more widely. | 12 | |
4830543324 | Syncretism | The amalgamation or attempt amalgamation of different religions, cultures, or schools of thought. | 13 | |
4830543325 | Megalith | A large stine that forms a prehistoric monument (e.g., a menhir) or part of one (e.g., a stone circle or chamber tomb) | 14 | |
4830544631 | City-State | A city that with its surrounding territory forms and independent state. | 15 | |
4830544632 | Patriarchy | A system of society or government in which men hold the power and women are largely excluded form it. | 16 | |
4830545799 | Fertile Crescent | A crescent-shaped region containing the comparatively moist and fertile land of otherwise arid and semi-arid Western Asia, the Nile Valley and Nile Delta. | 17 | |
4830546633 | Catal Huyuk | An archaeology site in what is now south-central Turkey. | 18 | |
4830547468 | Sumerians | A member of the indigenous non-Semitic people of ancient Babylonia. | 19 | |
4830549239 | Babylon | A contemptuous or dismissive term for aspects of a society sen as degenerate or oppressive, especially the police. | 20 | |
4830550403 | Hammurabi | 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 the ancient Mesopotamia. | 21 | |
4830550404 | Ziggurat | A rectangular stepped tower, sometimes surmounted by a temple | 22 | |
4830551776 | 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. | 23 | |
4830551777 | Memphis | An ancient city of Egypt south of Cairo. | 24 | |
4830566057 | Thebes | Known to the ancient Egyptians as Waset, was an ancient Egyptian city located east of the Nile about 800 kilometers (500 mi) south of the Mediterranean. | 25 | |
4830567622 | Pharoah | A ruler in ancient Egypt. | 26 | |
4830567623 | Pyramid | A monument 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. | 27 | |
4830569473 | Scribe | person who copies out documents, especially one employed to do this before printing was invented | 28 | |
4830570726 | Hieroglyphics | Enigmatic or incomprehensible symbols or writing. | 29 | |
4830573954 | 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. | 30 | |
4830573955 | Harappa | A village in Pakistan: site of successive cities of the Indus valley civilization. | 31 | |
4830576264 | Mohenjo-Daro | 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 | 32 | |
4830578300 | Shang Dynasty | 33 | ||
4830578301 | Zhou Dynesty | 34 | ||
4830579765 | Mandate of Heaven | An ancient Chinese belief/theory and philosophical idea that (heaven) granted emperors the right to rule based on their ability to govern well, appropriately and fairly. | 35 | |
4830579766 | Mesoamerica | A region and cultural area in the Americas, extending approximately from central Mexico to Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and northern Costa Rica, within which pre-Columbian societies flourished before the Spanish colonization of the Americas in the 15th and 16th centuries. | 36 | |
4830580799 | Olmec | 37 | ||
4830580800 | Teosinte | 38 | ||
4830582336 | Andes | 39 | ||
4830584062 | Chavin | 40 | ||
4830584063 | Llama | 41 | ||
4830585338 | Hierarchy | 42 | ||
4830585339 | Migration | 43 | ||
4830587513 | Bantu Migration | 44 | ||
4830588944 | Austronesian Migration | 45 | ||
4830589511 | Chiefdoms | 46 |
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