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463677940CuneiformWritten language of the Sumerians, probably the first written script in the world0
683385838Patriarchyadult men vested authority1
1494906237Indus Civilization (Harrappa and Mohenjo-Daro)complex society that dominated the Indus River Valley until its decline after 1900 BCE2
997522282Complex Society/Civilizationlarge concentrations of people3
1753161813Domesticationthe ability to change the genetics of plants and animals to make them more useful for us4
477000227Neolithic Revolution/EraNew Stone Age (10,000-4,000 BCE) which was marked by the discovery and mastery of agriculture5
430284296SatiIndian practice of a widow throwing herself on the funeral pyre of her husband6
499174077Four VarnasPriests; Warriors and Aristocrats; Cultivators, Artisans, and Merchants; Landless Peasants and Serfs7
1914907706Vedas"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 collection8
198376020Indo-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 Eurasia9

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