463677940 | Cuneiform | Written language of the Sumerians, probably the first written script in the world | 0 | |
683385838 | Patriarchy | adult men vested authority | 1 | |
1494906237 | Indus Civilization (Harrappa and Mohenjo-Daro) | complex society that dominated the Indus River Valley until its decline after 1900 BCE | 2 | |
997522282 | Complex Society/Civilization | large concentrations of people | 3 | |
1753161813 | Domestication | the ability to change the genetics of plants and animals to make them more useful for us | 4 | |
477000227 | Neolithic Revolution/Era | New Stone Age (10,000-4,000 BCE) which was marked by the discovery and mastery of agriculture | 5 | |
430284296 | Sati | Indian practice of a widow throwing herself on the funeral pyre of her husband | 6 | |
499174077 | Four Varnas | Priests; Warriors and Aristocrats; Cultivators, Artisans, and Merchants; Landless Peasants and Serfs | 7 | |
1914907706 | Vedas | "Wisdom," early collections of prayers and hymns that provide information about the Indo-European Aryans who migrated into India around 1500 BCE; Rig Veda is most important collection | 8 | |
198376020 | Indo-European Migration (Aryan) | Series of tribes from southern Russia who, over a period of millennia, embarked on a series of migrations from India through western Europe; their greatest legacy was the broad distribution of Indo-European languages throughout Eurasia | 9 |
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