| 4115082386 | Histography | The study of the way historians write history; the history of History | 0 | |
| 4115082387 | Periodization | The division of History into periods based on conditions such as geographical components increase and decrease in contacts across regions and an emergence of parallel Development Across the world | 1 | |
| 4115082388 | Albert Einstein theory of relativity | A theory that states that time space and mass are relative to each other and not fixed | 2 | |
| 4115082389 | Polio vaccine | A vaccine made to prevent polio outbreaks in mid to late 1900's | 3 | |
| 4115082390 | Artificial heart | Heart transplant of a fake heart; the first transplant sparked the public debate on its capabilities | 4 | |
| 4115082391 | Fossil Fuels | Coal, diesel, gasoline and petroleum | 5 | |
| 4115082392 | Nuclear Power | In the 1950s, in West and Soviet Union atomic energy was promoted as the best energy source but it lost its place | 6 | |
| 4115082393 | Green Revolution | A period whrn productivity and global agriculture increased drastically as a result of new advances | 7 | |
| 4115082394 | High Yield Crops | Crops that are specifically designed to produce more overall yield | 8 | |
| 4115082395 | Multiple Cropping | When a field is used to grow two or more crops throughout the year that way the field has something growing constantly | 9 | |
| 4164001114 | Artifacts | Objects made by people in the past | 10 | |
| 4164001115 | Homo sapiens sapiens | Modern Humans | 11 | |
| 4164001116 | Hunter-forager | humans that survived by hunting animals and foraging seeds, nuts, fruits, and edible roots | 12 | |
| 4164001117 | Paleolithic Period | began 2.5 million years ago and ended about 10000 years ago | 13 | |
| 4164001118 | kinship group | several related families that moved together in search of food | 14 | |
| 4164001119 | clan | larger group of relatives | 15 | |
| 4164001120 | tribe | multiple clans combined into still larger units | 16 | |
| 4164001121 | patriarchal | society dominated by men | 17 | |
| 4164001122 | animism | the belief that animals, rivers, and other elements of nature embody spirits | 18 | |
| 4164001123 | shaman | people believed to have special abilities to cure the sick and influence the future | 19 | |
| 4164042796 | Neolithic Revolution | a set of dramatic changes in how people lived based on the development of agriculture | 20 | |
| 4164042797 | Agriculture | the practice of raising crops or livestock on a continual and controlled basis | 21 | |
| 4164042798 | Surplus | more than some cultures needed for themselves | 22 | |
| 4164042799 | domestication | people taming wild animals so they could be brought up to live with humans | 23 | |
| 4164042800 | nomadic pastoralism | people moving herds of animals from pasture to pasture | 24 | |
| 4164042801 | artisans | people who made objects people needed | 25 | |
| 4164042802 | merchants | people who buy and sell goods for a living | 26 | |
| 4164042803 | specialization of labor | this process of allowing people to focus on limited tasks | 27 | |
| 4164042804 | social stratification | some people accumulated wealth in the form of jewelry and other coveted items and by building larger and better decorated houses | 28 | |
| 4164042805 | Jericho | built on the west bank of the Jordan River | 29 | |
| 4164042806 | Catal Huyuk | present day Turkey | 30 |
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