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| 10792083498 | Akkadian | Language of the ancient kingdom of Akkad, it became the lingua franca of the bronza age world | 0 | |
| 10792083499 | Chavin | Early Andean civilization | 1 | |
| 10792083500 | civilization | Changes when agriculture started | 2 | |
| 10792083501 | cultural diffusion | spread of ideas and material culture, especially if these occur independently of population movement | 3 | |
| 10792083502 | Cuniform | Firs form of writing, from ancient Mesopotamia | 4 | |
| 10792083503 | Domestication of plants and animals | Farming system where animals are taken to different locations in order to find fresh pastures | 5 | |
| 10792083504 | Egypt | the civilization of the Lower Nile Valley, between the First Cataract and the mouths of the Nile Delta, from circa BC until the conquest of Alexander the Great in BC As a civilization based on irrigation, it is the quintessential example of a hydraulic empire | 6 | |
| 10792083505 | Egyptian Book of the Dead | common name for the ancient Egyptian funerary texts Constituted a collection of spells, charms, passwords, numbers and magical formulas for use by the deceased in the afterlife, describing many of the basic tenets of Egyptian mythology They were intended to guide the dead through the various trials that they would encounter before reaching the underworld Knowledge of the appropriate spells was considered essential to achieving happiness after death | 7 | |
| 10792083506 | ethnocentrism | to look at the world primarily from the perspective of one's own culture | 8 | |
| 10792083507 | Examples of hominids | Austrolopithecus, homo habilis, homo erectus, homo sapiens | 9 | |
| 10792083508 | family units, clans, tribes | A group of people sharing common ancestry | 10 | |
| 10792083509 | Fertile Crescent | a region in the Middle East incorporating present-day Israel, West Bank, and Lebanon and parts of Jordan, Syria, Iraq and south-eastern Turkey | 11 | |
| 10792083510 | foraging | Looking for food | 12 | |
| 10792083511 | gender division of labor | Labor divided between man and woman, hunting and gathering etc | 13 | |
| 10792083512 | Gilgamesh | Gilgamesh became a legendary protagonist in the Epic of Gilgamesh | 14 | |
| 10792083513 | Hammurabis Law Code | First set of defined laws within a civilization | 15 | |
| 10792083514 | hieroglyphics | system of writing used by the Ancient Egyptians, using a combination of logographic, syllabic, and alphabetic elements | 16 | |
| 10792083515 | Hittite | Bronze Age Empire that consolidated farming communities. Notable for the development of iron working | 17 | |
| 10792083516 | Ice Age | Period of time where Earth was covered partly in ice | 18 | |
| 10792083517 | independent invention | Creative innovations of new solutions to old and new problems | 19 | |
| 10792083518 | Indus valley civilization | an ancient civilization thriving along the Indus River and the Ghaggar-Hakra river in what is now Pakistan and western India The Indus Valley Civilization is also sometimes referred to as the Harappan Civilization of the Indus Valley, in reference to its first excavated city of Harappa | 20 | |
| 10792083519 | irrigation systems | replacement or supplementation of rainfall with water from another source in order to grow crops | 21 | |
| 10792083520 | Mandate of Heaven | The Mandate of Heaven is an ancient Chinese belief and philosophical idea that tiān (heaven) granted emperors the right to rule basedon their ability to govern well and fairly. According to this belief, heaven bestows its mandate to a just ruler, the Son of Heaven. | 22 | |
| 10792083521 | matrilineal | System in which one belongs to mothers lineage | 23 | |
| 10792083522 | metallurgy and metalworking | the physical and chemical behavior of metallic elements and their mixtures, which are called alloys craft and practice of working with metals to create parts or structures | 24 | |
| 10792083523 | migratory farmers | Farmers that migrate instead of settling after using up the land | 25 | |
| 10792083524 | Minoan and Mycenaean. | Bronze age Greek civilizations | 26 | |
| 10792083525 | Neolithic Era | New Stone Age | 27 | |
| 10792083526 | Neolithic Revolution | Farming uses; start of agriculture | 28 | |
| 10792083527 | nomadic hunters/gatherers | Move place to place according to environment; adapts to environment | 29 | |
| 10792083528 | nomadic pastoralism | Slash-and-burn; once land is depleted, moved on to let soil recover | 30 | |
| 10792083529 | Olmec | Early Mesoamerican civilization | 31 | |
| 10792083530 | Paleolithic Era | Old Stone Age | 32 | |
| 10792083531 | partrilineal/patrilocal | Live with husbands family Traced through fathers lineage | 33 | |
| 10792083532 | pharaoh | Egyptian king | 34 | |
| 10792083533 | Polytheistic | Religions which have numerous gods | 35 | |
| 10792083534 | prehistory vs history | Prehistory no written documents; History: written proof of history | 36 | |
| 10792083535 | pyramids | tombs for egyptian kings | 37 | |
| 10792083536 | sedentary agriculture | Domestication of plants and animals | 38 | |
| 10792083537 | shifting cultivation | process by which people take an area of land to use for agriculture, only to abandon it a short time later | 39 | |
| 10792083538 | slash-and-burn agriculture | Trees cut down, plots made for agriculture | 40 | |
| 10792083539 | specialization of labor | specialisation of co-operative labour in specific, circumscribed tasks and roles, intended to increase efficiency of output | 41 | |
| 10792083540 | Sumarian | Mesopotamian civilisation, notable as the first to create writing | 42 | |
| 10792083541 | the Hittites and iron weapons | First to work iron, first to enter Iron Age controlled central Anatolia, north-western Syria down to Ugarit, and Mesopotamia down to Babylon, lasted from roughly BC to about BC After BC, the Hittite polity disintegrated into several independent city-states, some of which survived as late as around BC | 43 | |
| 10792083542 | Ziggurat | Impressive religious structures from Mesopotamia | 44 |
