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| 10829710718 | Civilization | A new and particular type of human society made possible by the immense productivity of the agricultural revolution | 0 | |
| 10829710719 | Quipu | An arrangement of knotted strings on a cord, used by the Inca to record numerical information. | 1 | |
| 10829710720 | Son of Heaven | Title of the ruler of China, first known from the Zhou dynasty. It acknowledges the ruler's position as intermediary between heaven and earth. | 2 | |
| 10829710721 | Oracle Bones | The earliest known Chinese writing is found on these from ritual activity of the Shang period. | 3 | |
| 10829710722 | irrigation | The process of supplying water to areas of land to make them suitable for growing crops. | 4 | |
| 10829710723 | Olmecs | (1400 B.C.E. to 500 B.C.E.) earliest known Mexican civilization,lived in rainforests along the Gulf of Mexico, developed calendar and constructed public buildings and temples, carried on trade with other groups.priests/aristocrats were at the top of society, built a ceremonial center, wroshiped the jaguar and werejaguar, best remains are the stone carved heads at la venta, use of calendar, spread through trade, known for art, most important legacy was priestly leadership and devotion | 5 | |
| 10829710724 | Uruk | an ancient Sumerian city in Southern Iraq, near the Euphrates, important before 2000 b.c. : exclusive archaeological excavations, notably of a ziggurat and of tablets with very early Sumerian script. | 6 | |
| 10829710725 | Ziggurat | massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mudbricks. It is associated with religious complexes in ancient Mesopotamian cities, but its function is unknown. | 7 | |
| 10829710726 | Epic of Gilgamesh | The most famous extant literary work from ancient Mesopotamia, it tells the story of one man's quest for immortality. | 8 | |
| 10829710727 | Mohenjo-Daro | Largest city of the Indus Valley civilization. It was centrally located in the extensive floodplain of the Indus River. Little is known about the political institutions of Indus Valley communities, but the large-scale implies central planning. | 9 | |
| 10829710728 | Harappa | a large ancient city of the Indus civilization, created in present-day Pakistan | 10 | |
| 10829710729 | Social Heirachy | the division of society by rank or class | 11 | |
| 10829710730 | Code of Hammurabi | the set of laws drawn up by Babylonian king Hammurabi dating to the 18th century BC, the earliest legal code known in its entirety | 12 | |
| 10829710731 | Ishtar | goddess of love and fertility and war | 13 | |
| 10829710732 | Hatshepsut | Queen of Egypt (1473-1458 B.C.E.). Dispatched a naval expedition down the Red Sea to Punt (possibly Somalia), the faraway source of myrrh. There is evidence of opposition to a woman as ruler, and after her death her name was frequently expunged. | 14 | |
| 10829710733 | scribe | a person who writes things down | 15 | |
| 10829710734 | Quin Shihuangdi | literally "first emperor from the Quin"; Shihuangdi (221-210 B.C.E.) forcibly reunited China and established a strong and repressive state. | 16 | |
| 10829710735 | Determinism | the philosophy that holds that every event, action, and decision results from something independent of the human will | 17 | |
| 10829710736 | Pharaoh | A king of ancient Egypt, considered a god as well as a political and military leader. | 18 | |
| 10829710737 | Day of Judgement | A time when the world will end and every soul will be judged by God and rewarded or punished | 19 | |
| 10829710738 | Hittites | The group of people who toppled the Babylonian empire and were responsible for two technological innovations--the war chariots and refinement of iron metallurgy. | 20 | |
| 10829710739 | hunter-gatherers | Food collectors rather than producers | 21 | |
| 10829710740 | Paleolithic | The period of the Stone Age associated with the evolution of humans. It predates the Neolithic period. | 22 | |
| 10829710741 | Homo sapiens | A species of the creatures Hominid who have larger brains and to which humans belong, dependent of language and usage of tools. | 23 | |
| 10829710742 | Blombos Cave | Dated to 77,000 years ago, a cave in South Africa where pieces of ochre with decoration were found. | 24 | |
| 10829710743 | Neolithic | The period of the Stone Age associated with the ancient Agricultural Revolution. It follows the Paleolithic period. | 25 | |
| 10829710744 | Ice Age | A period of extremely cold temperatures when majority of the planet's surface was covered with massive ice sheets. | 26 | |
| 10829710745 | cave art | prehistoric art found in caves | 27 | |
| 10829710746 | Venus figurines | Paleolithic carvings of the female form, often with exaggerated breasts, butts, hips, and stomachs, which may have had religious significance | 28 | |
| 10829710747 | Aboriginal Australians | hunter gatherers, ate most berries, roots, nuts, seeds, shoots, and leaves also used plants for medicine ate kangaroos, fish, waterfowl and small birds (Nomadic) | 29 | |
| 10829710748 | Dreamtime | The native Australian Aborigines' belief about how they came to be (through stories, ceremonies, etc.) | 30 | |
| 10829710749 | Pituri | addictive psychoactive drug | 31 | |
| 10829710750 | Clovis point | one of the first clearly defined and widespread culture traditions associated with people who made a distinctive projectile point | 32 | |
| 10829710751 | Moa | a large, extinct, flightless bird resembling the emu, formerly found in New Zealand. | 33 | |
| 10829710752 | Kinship | Societies were small and range 25-50 people so all relationships were intensely personal and normally understood and normally understood in the terms of kinship | 34 | |
| 10829710753 | Neanderthal man | human "ancestor" who was fully human but probably had rickets... "Flores man" | 35 | |
| 10829710754 | Shamans | people believed to be especially skilled at dealing with the spirit world | 36 | |
| 10829710755 | trance dance | An altered state of conscious with unusual dancing. Often accompanied with psychoactive drugs. Shamans would enter the dance to communicate with the spirit world or speak to ancestors | 37 | |
| 10829710756 | ceremonial space | extended rituals of contemporary Australian Aborigines (sometimes lasted weeks). The presence of rock art deep inside caves and far from living space | 38 | |
| 10829710757 | Animism | A non-sharp distinction between material and spiritual worlds | 39 | |
| 10829710758 | global warming | Natural or human-induced increase in the average global temperature of the atmosphere near the Earth's surface. | 40 | |
| 10829710759 | Neolithic Era (New Stone Age) | Agricultural Revolution | 41 | |
| 10829710760 | Agricultural Revolution | Deliberate cultivation of particular plants and animals | 42 | |
| 10829710761 | animal domestication | taking animals from nature and raising them in a controlled environment for the benefit of human kind | 43 | |
| 10829710762 | Xian | Along with the Loyang, capital of the Zhou dynasty. | 44 | |
| 10829710763 | Banpo Village | A Neolithic site in the yellow river valley, east of xian, sharnxi, province in the people's republic of China | 45 | |
| 10829710764 | Pastoralism | Used for or related to keeping or grazing of sheep or cattle | 46 | |
| 10829710765 | Title societies | Enable men and woman of wealth and character to earn a serious of increasingly prestigious titles that set them apart from their communities | 47 |
