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| 14979657370 | Pre-history | the period of time before written records | 0 | |
| 14979657371 | features of civilization | Social etiquette, religion, education, literature | 1 | |
| 14979657372 | Paleolithic Era | called the old stone age (from 10,000 to 2.5 million years ago); they were concerned with food supply; they used stone as well as bone tools; they were nomadic hunters and gatherers. | 2 | |
| 14979657373 | Neolithic Era | the last period of the stone age when human beings began to develop agriculture, and use tools and weapons made from shaped and polished stone | 3 | |
| 14979657375 | foraging societies | Also known as hunting and gathering societies, are societies in which people acquire their subsistence from the resources around them, without cultivating the earth. | 4 | |
| 14979657376 | nomadic hunter/gathers | A group of people who have no permanent home and move according to the seasons from place to place in search of food, water, and land. | 5 | |
| 14979657377 | Ice Age | The historic period in history of widespread glaciation, during which glaciers spread over about a third of the earth's land area | 6 | |
| 14979657378 | civilization | a society in an advanced state of social development (e.g., with complex legal and political and religious organizations) | 7 | |
| 14979657379 | Neolithic Revolution | the shift from hunting of animals and gathering of food to the keeping of animals and the growing of food on a regular basis around 8,000 BC | 8 | |
| 14979657380 | Domestication of plants and animals | the process of changing plants or animals to make them more useful to humans | 9 | |
| 14979657381 | nomadic pastoralism | slash and burn; once land has been depleted, move on to let soil recover | 10 | |
| 14979657382 | migratory farmers | Farmers that migrate instead of settling after using up the land. | 11 | |
| 14979657383 | partrilineal | a unilineal descent system in which ancestry is traced through the male line | 12 | |
| 14979657384 | patrilocal | move in with husband's family | 13 | |
| 14979657385 | irrigation systems | methods to supply water to farmland in areas with insufficient rainfall | 14 | |
| 14979657387 | ethnocentrism | tendency to view one's own culture and group as superior to all other cultures and groups | 15 | |
| 14979657388 | foraging | The seeking and obtaining of food. | 16 | |
| 14979657389 | sedentary agriculture | Planting seeds and harvesting them regularly. Began in the Neolithic. | 17 | |
| 14979657391 | matrilineal | relating to a social system in which family descent and inheritance rights are traced through the mother | 18 | |
| 14979657392 | cultural diffusion | The spread of ideas, customs, and technologies from one people to another | 19 | |
| 14979657393 | independant invention | The creation of technology or culture without influence from outside groups. | 20 | |
| 14979657394 | Focusing work effort on a particular product or a single task | Focusing work effort on a particular product or a single task | 21 | |
| 14979657396 | metallurgy | the science, technology and arts of metals | 22 | |
| 14979657405 | Patricarchal society | society in which men exercise the authority | 23 | |
| 14979657406 | Cuneiform | an ancient wedge-shaped script used in Mesopotamia and Persia | 24 |
