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| 3631201086 | Mesopotamia river valley civilization | Sumeria | 0 | |
| 3631205520 | Jericho | Jordan river, sedentary agriculture | 1 | |
| 3631207920 | Catal huyuk | Southern turkey, sedentary agriculture | 2 | |
| 3631211636 | Difference between Jericho and Catal Huyuk | Catal Huyuk had a larger population and had a larger degree of social stratification | 3 | |
| 3631215559 | Natufian Complex | Preagricultural culture, in jordan river valley, stratified society, hunting and gathering | 4 | |
| 3631222421 | Haunghe yellow river basin | sedentary agricultural site in china | 5 | |
| 3631228522 | Mesoamerica first civilization | Sumerians | 6 | |
| 3631228974 | Location of Sumeria | Tigris and Euphrates | 7 | |
| 3631230479 | Political stature of Sumeria | Kings who ruled over their city state with absolute authority, priests who had influence with religion, a general bureaucracy | 8 | |
| 3631240797 | Culture of Sumeria | Cunieform, Patron gods, negative outlook due to the flooding of the river, patron gods for each state, animism and ziggurats | 9 | |
| 3631254256 | Economy of Sumeria | Great surplus, which lead to clearly defined state, trade with the indus valley for metal | 10 | |
| 3631260388 | Society of Sumeria | Increasingly stratified | 11 | |
| 3631262941 | Downfall of Sumeria | Unable to withstand pressures from other invaders | 12 | |
| 3631264557 | Late mesopotamia | Akkadians and Babylonians, recurrently unstable with many rulings and invasions | 13 | |
| 3631266970 | Who conquered Sumeria | the akkadians | 14 | |
| 3631266971 | Akkadian empire | used the writing for stories and they lasted for 200 years, but were overthrown | 15 | |
| 3631268576 | Babylonian Empire | Emperor Hammurabi unified mesopotamia, he used a central bureaucracy, regular taxation and had laws. | 16 | |
| 3631274202 | Interaction with the environment | River and flat land fave easy access to invasion. Centrally located, great trade location | 17 | |
| 3631279851 | downfall of babylonian empire | 1600, fell because it was prosperous and everyone wanted it, hittite ultimately took over. | 18 | |
| 3631332648 | Ancient Egypt civilization location | Nile river | 19 | |
| 3631388494 | Society of Ancient Egypt | Optimistic, the nile river was bountiful. Pharaohs on the top and the priests controlled them to a certain extent. Women enjoyed greater freedom than the people of Mesopotamia | 20 | |
| 3631395006 | Interaction with the environment Egypt | Isolated, less invasion | 21 | |
| 3631396501 | Culture of Ancient Egypt | Bronze weapons, 365 days solar calendar, hieroglyphics | 22 | |
| 3631418303 | Politics of Ancient Egypt | Bureaucracy, pharaoh central ruler, city states, regional governors | 23 | |
| 3631446541 | Difference between politics Egypt and Meso | Egypt was centralized and Meso had city states, greater trade in Meso | 24 | |
| 3631447839 | Difference in culture | No epic tradition in Egypt, women had higher status in Egypt | 25 | |
| 3631455093 | Civilization in Africa | Kush on the southern Nile border | 26 | |
| 3631458295 | Highs and lows of africa | Conquered Egypt but defeated by Axum | 27 | |
| 3631459710 | Minoans | Traded with Egypt and Mesopotamia and conquered Greek Mycenae. | 28 | |
| 3631461584 | Phonecians | Not unified, into city states, widespread languange ,conquered by assyrians, alphabet of 22 letters, | 29 | |
| 3631604454 | Indus river valley | Harappa and Mohenjo Daro | 30 | |
| 3631607552 | Harappa an Mohenjo daro facts | square grid patterns, citadelsl, granaries | 31 | |
| 3631608251 | Harrapan Culture | Agriculture, irrigation, trade | 32 | |
| 3631610664 | Demise of Harappa | unclear, migrants lead to lower irrigation | 33 | |
| 3631611251 | Aryans | Ind european, pastoralist | 34 | |
| 3631612382 | Aryan culture | warrior like, had the vedas, and many gods lead to hinduism | 35 | |
| 3631613571 | Aryan society | Warriors, priests, commoners, serfs(dasas), developed caste system (continuity) | 36 | |
| 3631617333 | Aryan dominance over harappa | egalitarian, tribal organization, egalitarian, aryans turned to agriculture | 37 | |
| 3631644290 | Indus harrapan writing | still undesciphered today | 38 | |
| 3631666038 | Ancient china location | Huang He Yellow river | 39 | |
| 3631667862 | Chinese interaction with the environment | Loess was rich in fertility for wheat and millet but there were many devastating floods | 40 | |
| 3631674599 | Important discovery of the chinese | bronze metallurgy | 41 | |
| 3631676541 | First Chinese dynasty | the Shang | 42 | |
| 3631677812 | Politics of the shang | Led by a warrior aristocracy that fought ti's north and west invaders. monarchs served by a bureaucracy, peasants and artisans served by vassal retainers. Rulers had both political and religious authority | 43 | |
| 3631679750 | Economy of the shang | Traded extensively, middle east indus valley people | 44 | |
| 3631682490 | Culture of the Shang | Jade and silk was important, writing form pictographs gave a common identity and was monopolized by the elite, divination, ancestor veneration, warlike, kingdom viewed as the center of the world ritualistic. Peasants lived in nuclear families. | 45 | |
| 3631694590 | Second dynasty of the Chinese | Zhou, a turkish herding family that rebelled against the Shang. It was the longest lasting dynasty. Lasted until 221 B.C.E | 46 | |
| 3631709309 | Important development of the Zhou | Mandate of heaven | 47 | |
| 3631711048 | Culture of Zhou | Ancestor Veneration also developed iron metallurgy. Royal ancestors center of worship and human sacrifice ended. | 48 | |
| 3631713752 | Politics of the Zhou | Strong elite ruling class, hereditary aristocrats. They were feudal and granted fiefs for military service. The mandate of heaven by wu weakened the shang monarch which lead to the centralized professional bureaucracy of the Zhou dominance. | 49 | |
| 3631717579 | Social aspects of the Zhou | Small class of artisans, large class of peasants | 50 | |
| 3631729575 | Shi | Military retainers who governed most of the empire. they won administrative positions that had little to np meaning. They gained their influence as advisors | 51 | |
| 3631732804 | Peasantry in the Zhou dynasty | Burdened by labor, and became more oppressed. Forced to be in the military | 52 | |
| 3631735120 | Economy of the Zhou | Population growth, new agricultural tools, expanded tp the yangzi and had control over the major rivers of china. | 53 | |
| 3631741195 | Zhou decline | Zhou control over vassals diminished and they had growing chaos and war. 771 decline and loss of the western half of the empire . | 54 | |
| 3631773828 | Mesoamerica | Olmecs | 55 | |
| 3631774868 | Location of the Olmecs | Gulf of mexico | 56 | |
| 3631777164 | South America | Andeans | 57 | |
| 3631778413 | Culture of the Andeans | Chavin religious cult | 58 | |
| 3631781559 | Both mesoamerica and south america had | religious shrines | 59 | |
| 3631784911 | Culture of the Olmecs | Large trading network and had corns bean and squash, polytheistic, human sacrifice | 60 | |
| 3631795679 | Era of warring states | After fall of Zhou and before the rise of the qin, confucianism, daoism and legalism all occurred then3 | 61 |
