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| 10724329991 | Mandate of Heaven | a political theory of ancient China in which those in power were given the right to rule from a divine source | 0 | |
| 10724343698 | Book of songs | the earliest collection of Chinese poetry; it provides glimpses of what life was like in the early Zhou Dynasty | 1 | |
| 10724354594 | orcale bones | characters scratched into bones that priests used to predict future event | 2 | |
| 10724376262 | Olmec | The first Mesoamerican civilization. Between ca. 1200 and 400 B.C.E., these people of central Mexico created a vibrant civilization that included intensive agriculture, wide-ranging trade, ceremonial centers, and monumental construction. | 3 | |
| 10724384179 | Bloodletting Rituals | Rituals practiced by Mayans with the belief that such sacrifices would please the gods who, in turn, would send rain to sustain agriculture. | 4 | |
| 10724388719 | Cuneiform | the world's first system of writing | 5 | |
| 10724391368 | Pharaohs | _______ were the rulers of Egypt, believed by their people to be descended of the sun god. | 6 | |
| 10724394234 | Heiroglyphics | ancient Egyptian writing system using picture symbols for ideas or sounds | 7 | |
| 10724394235 | Aryans | nomads from Europe and Asia who migrated to India and finally settled; vedas from this time suggest beginning of caste system | 8 | |
| 10724402693 | Harappan | The first Indian civilization; also known as the Indus Valley civilization | 9 | |
| 10724411999 | Hominid | An early ancestor of humans | 10 | |
| 10724412000 | Homo Spaiens | Early modern humans | 11 | |
| 10724424578 | Paleolithic | The period of the Stone Age associated with the evolution of humans. It predates the Neolithic period. | 12 | |
| 10724428792 | Neolithic | New Stone Age | 13 | |
| 10724431376 | Venus figurines | Paleolithic carvings of the female form, often with exaggerated breasts, buttocks, hips, and stomachs, which may have had religious significance | 14 | |
| 10724434363 | Vedas | Ancient Sanskrit writings that are the earliest sacred texts of Hinduism. | 15 | |
| 10724436977 | Upishads | sacred Hindu texts dealing with metaphysics | 16 | |
| 10724441352 | Brahmins | The priest varna of the caste system. | 17 | |
| 10724443726 | Sati | The Indian custom of a widow voluntarily throwing herself on the funeral pyre of her husband. | 18 | |
| 10724447089 | Dravidians | The original people of the Indus Valley | 19 | |
| 10724449764 | Karma | (Hinduism and Buddhism) the effects of a person's actions that determine his destiny in his next incarnation | 20 | |
| 10724455659 | Jati | Working class of the caste system | 21 | |
| 10724458505 | Xia | First Chinese dynasty | 22 | |
| 10724469028 | Shang Yang | Founder of Legalism | 23 | |
| 10724472377 | Zhou | Succeeded the Shang dynasty. Similar to the Shang And Xia dynastic periods in that China was fragmented politically. Yet, despite the lack of true centralization, this was one of the longest Chinese dynasties, lasting about 600 years. It left substantial written records, unlike the preceding dynasties. | 24 | |
| 10724490940 | Catal Huyuk | One of first true cities in history, created in the Neolithic Era in 6500 to 5500 BC, from which were created agriculture, trading, temples, housing, and religions | 25 | |
| 10724490941 | Gilgamesh | A legendary Sumerian king who was the hero of an epic collection of mythic stories | 26 | |
| 10724493526 | Hammurabi's Code | first written code/set of laws that all were expected to obey. | 27 | |
| 10724496310 | Assyrians | Known as a warrior people who ruthlessly conquered neighboring countries; their empire stretched from east to north of the Tigris River all the way to centeral Egypt; used ladders, weapons like iron-tipped spears, daggers and swords, tunnels, and fearful military tactics to gain strength in their empire | 28 | |
| 10724496311 | Mesopotamia | A region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers that developed the first urban societies. In the Bronze Age this area included Sumer and the Akkadian, Babylonian and Assyrian empires, In the Iron Age, it was ruled by the Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian empires. | 29 |
