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| 4732869305 | civilization | A society with cities, a central government, job specialization, and social classes | 0 | |
| 4732869306 | cultural | The spread of ideas, customs, and technologies from one people to another | 1 | |
| 4732869740 | history | the study of past events and changes in the development, transmission, and transformation of cultural practices | 2 | |
| 4732869741 | stone age | the historical period characterized by the production of tools made from stone and other nonmetallic substances. (after the bronze age and in general, iron age) | 3 | |
| 4732870659 | paleolithic | the period of the stone age associated with the evolution of humans | 4 | |
| 4732871054 | neolithic | the period of the stone age associated with the ancient agricultural revolutions (after paleolithic period) | 5 | |
| 4732871055 | foragers | people who support themselves by hunting wild animals and gathering wild edible plants and insects | 6 | |
| 4732871267 | agricultural revolutions | the change from food gathering to food production that occurred between ca 8000 and 2000 bce (neolithic revolution) | 7 | |
| 4732871268 | megaliths | structures and complexes of very large stones constructed for ceremonial and religious purposes in neolithic times | 8 | |
| 4732871450 | sumerians | the people who dominated southern Mesopotamia through the end of the third millennium B.C.E. they were responsible for the creation of many fundamental elements of Mesopotamian culture, such as irrigation technology, cuneiform, and religious conceptions, taken over by their Semitic successors | 9 | |
| 4732871451 | semitic | family of related languages long spoken across parts of western Asia and northern Africa. (Hebrew, Aramaic, and Phoenician) most wide spread is arabic | 10 | |
| 4732872310 | city-state | a small independent state consisting of an urban center and the surrounding agricultural territory. ( early Mesopotamia, archaic and classical Greece, Phoenician, and early Italy | 11 | |
| 4732872311 | babylon | the largest and most important city in Mesopotamia. (capital of the amorite king hammurabi in the 18th century B.C.E. | 12 | |
| 4732872577 | hammurabi | amorite ruler of Babylon / conquered many city states in southern and northern Mesopotamia and is best know for a code of laws, inscribed on a black stone pillar, illustrating the principles to be used in legal cases | 13 | |
| 4732872578 | scribe | a professional position reserved for men who had undergone the lengthy training required to be able to read and write using cuneiforms, hieroglyphics, or other early, cumbersome writing systems | 14 | |
| 4732872579 | ziggurat | a massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mud bricks. it is associated with religious complexes in ancient Mesopotamian cities, but its function is unknown | 15 | |
| 4732873589 | amulet | small charm meant to protect the bearer from evil. | 16 | |
| 4732873590 | cuneiform | a system of writing in which wedge-shaped symbols represented words or syllables. (originated from Mesopotamia) | 17 | |
| 4732873782 | bronze | an alloy of copper with a small amount of tin (harder and more durable than copper alone) | 18 | |
| 4732874142 | pharaoh | the central figure in the ancient Egyptian state. he used his power to protect his people (chief priest) | 19 | |
| 4732874422 | ma'at | Egyptian term for the concept of divinely created and maintained order in the universe | 20 | |
| 4732874423 | pyramid | a large, triangular stone monument, used in Egypt and Nubia as a burial place for the king (large pyramids- old kingdom near memphis and royal tombs | 21 | |
| 4732874606 | memphis | the capital of old kingdom Egypt, near the head of the Nile delta | 22 | |
| 4732874607 | thebes | capital city of Egypt and home of the ruling dynasties during the middle and new kingdoms.( one of the chief gods of Egypt) | 23 | |
| 4732874846 | hieroglyphics | a system of writing in which pictorial symbols represented sounds, syllables, or concepts. it was used for official and monumental inscriptions in ancient egypt and used to keep records | 24 | |
| 4732874847 | papyrus | a reed that grows along the banks of the Nile river in Egypt | 25 | |
| 4732875410 | mummy | a body preserved by chemical processes or special natural circumstances, often in the belief that the deceased will need it again in the afterlife | 26 | |
| 4732875554 | harappa | site of one of the great cities of the Indus valley civilization of the 3rd millennium B.C.E. (northwest frontier of the zone of cultivation) | 27 | |
| 4732876091 | mohenjo-daro | largest of the cities of the Indus valley civilization(located on the floodplain of the Indus river in contemporary Pakistan | 28 | |
| 4737400153 | pastoralism | taking care of animals and tending them | 29 | |
| 4737401674 | kinship | blood relationship | 30 | |
| 4737401954 | clan | interrelated families | 31 | |
| 4737402393 | matrilineal | on the mothers side or females | 32 | |
| 4737402860 | patrilineal | on the fathers side or males | 33 | |
| 4737404488 | nuclear families | a couple and their dependent childeren | 34 | |
| 4737406220 | artisans | skilled trader | 35 | |
| 4737407431 | mesopotamia aka | land between the rivers | 36 | |
| 4737408441 | irrigation systems | canals and dams | 37 | |
| 4737409107 | law code of hammurabi | severe punishments | 38 | |
| 4737410641 | polytheism | belief in many gods | 39 | |
| 4737410993 | book of the dead | contained rituals to ensure safe passage | 40 | |
| 4737413977 | Nile river | used for trade, communication, agriculture | 41 | |
| 4737415701 | bureaucrats | ran the county and collected taxes | 42 | |
| 4737416281 | peasants | vast majority of people | 43 |
