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3558393045Civilizationan advanced state of human society, in which a high level of culture, science, industry, and government has been reached.0
3558411709Monumental AgricultureA very important crop, kind of like a cash crop.1
3558413480ZigguratStepped pyramids2
3558416168CunieformSumerians form of writing with wedge shaped chunks taken out of rocks.3
3558425518HieroglyphicsEgyptian form of writing using pictures/symbols4
4753596802Vedas/Vedic TraditionThe religion of the ancient Indo-European-speaking peoples. It takes its name from the collections of sacred texts known as the Vedas.5
4753600259ZoroastrianismA monotheistic religion founded by Zoroaster.6
4753611025PolytheismReligion with many different Gods.7
4753612717MonotheismReligion with only one God.8
4753620883Environmental DeterminismThe study of how the physical environment predisposes societies and states towards particular development trajectories.9
4753622655Mandate Of HeavenThe idea that the Gods chose those who should rule.10
4753627206Pictographic writingA picture representing a word, phrase, or idea.11
4753628512Oracle BonesUsing bone or horn with heated pins to create cracks, then reading these cracks to read responses from the Gods.12
4753630283PharaohThe greatest ruler in Egypt.13
4753631134UrAn important Sumerian city-state in ancient Mesopotamia.14
4753635242CentralizedControl under one authority only.15
4753637134DecentralizedControl under several people of authority.16
4753639069City-StatesIndependent places with their own government.17
4753640794Ancestor VenerationThe idea that deceased ancestors had connection to the Gods and could communicate with them for current living family.18
4753643106AryansIndo-European speaking people from Central Asia who migrated into India.19
4753647878HierarchyA system or organization in which people or groups are ranked one above the other according to status or authority.20
4753648578DivineOf, from, or like God or a god.21
4753649825BarteringExchange (goods or services) for other goods or services without using money.22
4753650612IrrigationIrrigation is the watering of land to make it ready for agriculture.23
4753652328Hammurabi's CodeOldest written law code, "an eye for an eye".24
4753655344Iron MetallurgyExtracting metal from its ores.25
4753657031CharriotsA two-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle used in ancient warfare and racing.26

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