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10911117679Venus figurines-25,000 years ago EurasiaPaleolithic carvings of the female form, often with exaggerated breasts, buttocks, hips, and stomachs, which may have had religious significance0
10911117680Clovis Culture 12,000 BCE New MexicoThe earliest widespread and distinctive culture of North America; named from the Clovis point, a particular kind of projectile point.1
10911117681Megafanual ExtinctionEnd of the last ice age when giant ice mammals went extinct.2
10911117682Gobleki Tepereligious structure built by hunter/gatherer societis, based on seasons and solstace, etc. 13,700-13,900 bce. located in Turkey.3
10911117683Austronesian migrationsGroups in Southeast Asia, Oceania and east Africa that speak similar languages and populated the last continent. Brought domesticated plants and animals.4
10911117684Bantu MigrationThe movement of the Bantu peoples southward throughout Africa, spreading their language and culture, from around 500 b.c. to around A.D 10005
10911117685pastoral societiessocieties whose subsistence derives from the rearing of domesticated animals6
10911117686Catalhuyukone of the world's first villages, established in modern-day Turkey around 7000 B.C.7
10911117687Agricultural Village Societieswere usually organized in terms of kinship groups or lineages. Very different from hunting and gathering.8
10911117688ChiefdomsCentralized political systems with authority vested in formal, usually hereditary, offices or titles9
10914983573250-200k BCEFirst homosapian10
10914983574100k BCELeft Africa11
1091498357570-45k BCE60k Australia 30-15k America's 3k-500 BCE austronesian12
10930968864Agricultural Revolution12,000-4,000 BCE13
10930968865PatriarchyEmergence from large scale warfare with professionally led armies14
10930968866Mother of all civilizationsOlmec15
109309688677 major civilizationsSummer, Norte Chico, Indus Valley, Xia, Shang, Zhou, Oxus, Olmec, Nubian16
10930968868Instability in MesopotamiaThe rivalries between independent city states that led to warefare17
10930968869Agricultural revolution-americaScarcity of animals that could be domesticated18

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