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| 6734869359 | Hunting and Gathering | Means of obtaining subsistence by humans before the mastery of sedentary agriculture; normally typical of tribal social organization | 0 | |
| 6734875455 | Civilization | Societies with reliance on sedentary agriculture, ability to produce food surpluses, and existence of non-farming elites, along with merchant and manufacturing groups | 1 | |
| 6734891798 | Paleolithic | Typified by use of evolving stone tools and hunting and gathering for subsistence Old Stone age- ended 12,000 BCE | 2 | |
| 6734909994 | Neolithic | period in which adaptation of sedentary agriculture occurred; domestication of plants and animals accomplished (New Stone Age 8000-5000 BCE) | 3 | |
| 6734918414 | Culture | Combination of ideas, objects, and patterns of behavior that result from human social interaction | 4 | |
| 6734926079 | Agrarian revolution | increased use of plow, metalworking; development of wheeled vehicles, writing(8000-5000 BCE) | 5 | |
| 6734934940 | Mesopotamia | "between the rivers"; the civilization that arose in the alluvial plain of the Tigris-Euphrates river valleys | 6 | |
| 6734940091 | Sumerians | People who migrated into Mesopotamia circa 4000 B.C.E.; created the first civilization within the region; organized area into city-states | 7 | |
| 6734945350 | Cuneiform | A form of writing developed by the Sumerians using a wedge-shaped stylus and clay tablets | 8 | |
| 6734952153 | City-state | form of political organization typical of Mesopotamian civilization; consisted of agricultural hinterlands ruled by an urban-based king | 9 | |
| 6734955652 | Ziggurats | Massive towers usually associated with Mesopotamian temple connections | 10 | |
| 6735132178 | Babylonian Empire | Unified all of Mesopotamia circa 1800 B.C.E.; collapsed due to foreign invasion circa 1600 B.C.E. | 11 | |
| 6735645926 | Hammurabi | An important Babylonian ruler; responsible for codification of the law | 12 | |
| 6735659095 | Pyramids | Monumental architecture typical of Old Kingdom Egypt; used as burial sites for pharaohs | 13 | |
| 6735663549 | Hieroglyphs | Form of writing developed in ancient Egypt; more pictorial than Mesopotamian cuneiform | 14 | |
| 6735669649 | Olmec | Civilization of Mesoamerica | 15 | |
| 6735673367 | Monotheism | The exclusive worship of one god; introduced by Jews into Middle Eastern civilization | 16 | |
| 6735683544 | Harappa and Mohenjo Daro | Major urban complexes of Indus River Valley civilization; laid out on planned grid pattern | 17 | |
| 6735689483 | Chavin | Civilization in Andean South America | 18 | |
| 6735692971 | Shang | 1st Chinese dynasty | 19 | |
| 6735696598 | Metallurgy | Process of extracting, molding and shaping metal | 20 | |
| 6735713455 | Hierarchy | Any system of persons or things ranked one above another | 21 | |
| 6735720613 | Patriarchy | A form of social organization in which the male is the supreme authority | 22 | |
| 6735724697 | Hitittes | Civilization that developed the use of iron | 23 | |
| 6735728803 | Vedic Religion | Eventually led to modern Hinduism | 24 | |
| 6735733116 | Hebrew monotheism | Jewish religion that also led to modern Christianity | 25 | |
| 6735740380 | Zoroastrianism | Persian religion | 26 | |
| 6735745837 | Epic of Gilgamesh | Early work of literature originating in Ancient Sumer | 27 | |
| 6735754104 | Rig Veda | A collection of 1000 hymns and mythology of Hindi gods | 28 | |
| 6735756370 | Quipu | Series of knots used as a means of record keeping by Andean South American civilizations | 29 |
