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4830529813ArchaeologyThe study of human history and prehistoric through the excavation of sites and the analysis of artifacts and other physical remains.0
4830530752AnthropologyThe comparative study of human societies and cultures and their developments.1
4830530753HistoryThe study of past events, particularly in human affairs.2
4830531701Primary SourceAn artifact, a document, diary, manuscript, autobiography, a record, or other source of information that was created at the time under study.3
4830534305Secondary SourceInformation 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
4830534306CivilizationThe stage of human social development and organization that is considered most advanced.5
4830535257CultureThe arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively.6
4830536518PaleolithicOf, relating to, or denoting the early phase of the Stone Age, lasting bout 2.5 million years, when primitive stone implements were used.7
4830536519Clovis CultureA 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 age8
4830538819Neolithic (agricultural revolution)Of, relating to or denoting the later part of the Stone Age, when ground or polished stone weapons, and implements prevailed.9
4830538820ForagersTo search about; seek rummage; hunt.10
4830540850PastoralistsA sheep or cattle farmer.11
4830540851DiffusionThe spreading of something more widely.12
4830543324SyncretismThe amalgamation or attempt amalgamation of different religions, cultures, or schools of thought.13
4830543325MegalithA large stine that forms a prehistoric monument (e.g., a menhir) or part of one (e.g., a stone circle or chamber tomb)14
4830544631City-StateA city that with its surrounding territory forms and independent state.15
4830544632PatriarchyA system of society or government in which men hold the power and women are largely excluded form it.16
4830545799Fertile CrescentA 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
4830546633Catal HuyukAn archaeology site in what is now south-central Turkey.18
4830547468SumeriansA member of the indigenous non-Semitic people of ancient Babylonia.19
4830549239BabylonA contemptuous or dismissive term for aspects of a society sen as degenerate or oppressive, especially the police.20
4830550403HammurabiThe 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
4830550404ZigguratA rectangular stepped tower, sometimes surmounted by a temple22
4830551776CuneiformDenoting 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
4830551777MemphisAn ancient city of Egypt south of Cairo.24
4830566057ThebesKnown 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
4830567622PharoahA ruler in ancient Egypt.26
4830567623PyramidA 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
4830569473Scribeperson who copies out documents, especially one employed to do this before printing was invented28
4830570726HieroglyphicsEnigmatic or incomprehensible symbols or writing.29
4830573954PapyrusA 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
4830573955HarappaA village in Pakistan: site of successive cities of the Indus valley civilization.31
4830576264Mohenjo-DaroOne 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 culture32
4830578300Shang Dynasty33
4830578301Zhou Dynesty34
4830579765Mandate of HeavenAn 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
4830579766MesoamericaA 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
4830580799Olmec37
4830580800Teosinte38
4830582336Andes39
4830584062Chavin40
4830584063Llama41
4830585338Hierarchy42
4830585339Migration43
4830587513Bantu Migration44
4830588944Austronesian Migration45
4830589511Chiefdoms46

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