4814027665 | Babylon | The most important city in southern Mesopotamia which climaxed in a cosmic battle between Marduk and Tiamak | 0 | |
4814036071 | Sumerians | A civilization that created the framework of civilization in Mesopotamia during a long period of dominance in the third millennium | 1 | |
4814053809 | Megaliths | Big carved stones that are meant to relate to religious beliefs | 2 | |
4814059879 | Holocene | An era in which global warning ended the Ice Age | 3 | |
4814067067 | Agricultural revolutions | The central role of food production and the adoption of agricultural which included the domestication of animals for food | 4 | |
4814075607 | Foragers | People who hunt and gather food. These were usually men in the family. They made specific tools to catch certain animals easily. | 5 | |
4814085584 | Neolithic | The Age where agriculture was invented. This changed the lives of many people due to the fact that they can grow food without hunting for it | 6 | |
4814101009 | Paleolithic | An Age where it lasted from the end of the Stone Age to the end of the Ice Age | 7 | |
4814107722 | Culture | Specific objects, materials, dwellings, clothing, tools, crafts, beliefs and languages | 8 | |
4814124716 | Civilization | 1. Cities that have administration centers 2. Cities that have a political system 3. A number of people working on something besides food-making 4. Cities that have certain status classes 5. Cities that have monumental buildings 6. Permanent record keeping 7. Trading long-distance wise 8. Advances in science and art | 9 | |
4814149573 | History | The development, transmission, and transformation of cultural practices and events | 10 | |
4814156729 | Stone Age | The time period in which stone tools were invented. This period revolutionized hunting forever | 11 | |
4814196172 | Semitic | A family of languages spoken in parts of western Asia and northern Africa | 12 | |
4814202801 | City-State | A self-governing urban center and the agricultural territories it controlled | 13 | |
4814207876 | Hammurabi | A city that initiated a series of aggressive military campaigns | 14 | |
4814218225 | Scribe | An administrator or scholar charged by the temple or palace with reading and writing tasks | 15 | |
4814232930 | Ziggurat | A multistory, mud-brick, pyramid shaped tower approached by ramps and stairs | 16 | |
4814238606 | Amulets | Small charms meant to protect the bearer from evil. People wore these for cultural or religious beliefs | 17 | |
4814252159 | Cuneiform | Wedge-shaped writing which involved several hundred signs. Mastering Cuneiform in that day took several years to get used to | 18 | |
4814261759 | Pharaoh | The Egyptian Phrase meaning palace. Many people wore hats that covered their faces and that distinguished them as a pharaoh which means they were wealthy | 19 | |
4814286094 | Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro | Two urban sites that best typify the Indus Valley civilization | 20 | |
4814290616 | Mummy | Dead people who are wrapped in linen and placed in decorated wooded caskets | 21 | |
4814295785 | Papyrus | A writing material made from the stems of the papyrus reed that grew in the Nile marshes | 22 | |
4814301963 | Hieroglyphics | A system of writing developed by the beginning of the Early Dynasty period | 23 | |
4814307707 | Thebes | Another place where dynasties placed their capitols | 24 | |
4814313731 | Memphis | A place where ruling dynasties usually placed their capitals in the area of their original power base | 25 | |
4814319525 | Ma'at | The divinely authorized order of the universe | 26 |
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