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| 10569724593 | Agriculture | The practice of raising crops or livestock on a continual and controlled basis. |  | 0 |
| 10569724594 | Artisan | A skilled craftsperson. |  | 1 |
| 10569724595 | Domestication | The taming of animals and plants for human use, such as for labor or food. | 2 | |
| 10569724597 | Animism | The belief that animals, Rivers, and other elements of nature embody spirits. | 3 | |
| 10569724598 | Hunter-foragers | People who survived by hunting animals and foraging for seeds, nuts, fruits, and edible roots. |  | 4 |
| 10569724599 | Irrigation | A way of supplying water to an area of land, the people would use water from the rivers to irrigate their crops. |  | 5 |
| 10569724600 | Metallurgy | The science of the study of metals. |  | 6 |
| 10569724601 | Migration | A movement from one country or region to another. |  | 7 |
| 10569724602 | Monotheism | The belief in one God. | 8 | |
| 10569724603 | Paleolithic Period | Old Stone Age, where humanos used stone tools and weapons. |  | 9 |
| 10569724604 | Specialization of labor | The division of labor that aids the development of skills in a particular type of work. |  | 10 |
| 10569724605 | Surplus | Having more resources than needed for themselves. | 11 | |
| 10569724606 | Textile | Items made of cloth, would be weaved by women and then decorated, usually all at home. |  | 12 |
| 10569724607 | Urbanization | An increase in the percentage and in the number of people living in urban settlements. | 13 | |
| 10569724610 | Artifacts | Objects made and used by early humans, usually dug up by archaeologists. |  | 14 |
| 10569724612 | Neolithic Revolution | The switch from nomadic lifestyles to a settled agricultural lifestyle. |  | 15 |
| 10569724613 | Bronze Age | The period in ancient human culture when people began to make and use bronze. |  | 16 |
| 10569724614 | Civilization | The stage of human social development and organization that is considered most advanced. |  | 17 |
| 10569724615 | Jericho | One of the oldest first human cities that was built on the West Bank of the Jordan river. |  | 18 |
| 10569724616 | Catal Huyuk | Ancient city in present dat Turkey that was founded in 7500 B.C.E. along a river that has since dried up. |  | 19 |
| 10569724617 | Nomadic Pastoralism | People moving herds of animals from pasture to pasture. |  | 20 |
| 10569724621 | Patriarchal | Relating to a society in which men hold the greatest legal and moral authority. |  | 21 |
| 10569724622 | Merchants | People who buy and sell goods also known as traders. |  | 22 |
| 10569724623 | Social Stratification | The division of society into groups arranged in a social hierarchy. Some people accumulated wealth in the form of jewelry and others coveted items by building larger and better decorated houses. |  | 23 |
| 10569724624 | Priests and Priestesses | People who performed religious ceremonies. |  | 24 |
| 10569724625 | Tigris and Euphrates Rivers | Flow south from modern day Turkey through what is now Iraq to empty into the Persian Gulf. |  | 25 |
| 10569724626 | Mesopotamia | Land between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers where many ancient civilizations arose from. |  | 26 |
| 10569724627 | Fertile Crescent | An arc of fertile land from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf . |  | 27 |
| 10569724628 | Sumerians | Group of nomadic pastoralists that migrated into Mesopotamia and created a civilization of Sumer that provided the core and the foundation of several other civilizations. |  | 28 |
| 10569724629 | Ziggurats | Temples built by Sumerians to honor the gods and goddesses they worshipped. |  | 29 |
| 10569724630 | Desertification | The spread of desert like conditions. |  | 30 |
| 10569724631 | Indus River Valley | Developed near water and became the core and foundation of later civilizations in the region. | 31 | |
| 10569724633 | Deforestation | The removal of trees faster than forests can replace themselves. |  | 32 |
| 10569724635 | Mesoamerica | An area of ancient civilization in what is now Central America. |  | 33 |
| 10569724638 | Polytheistic | Belief in many gods. |  | 34 |
| 10569724639 | Ziggurats | Temples built by Sumerians to honor the gods and goddesses they worshipped. | | 35 |
| 10569724646 | The Huang He and The Chiang Jiang | Where Chinas first civilizations developed. | 36 | |
| 10569724647 | Mummification | Involved removing the body's internal organs, drying the body with salts, and packing its insides and wrapping it with chemically treated cloth. |  | 37 |
| 10569724648 | Hieroglyphics | Egyptian writing that involved using pictures to represent words. |  | 38 |
| 10569724650 | Vedas | A collection of Aryan religious hymns, poems, and songs. |  | 39 |
| 10569724651 | Vedic Age | Aryans growing awareness of Dravidian beliefs. | 40 | |
| 10569724652 | Brahma | Overarching, universal soul that connects all creatures on Earth. | 41 | |
| 10569724656 | Ancestor Veneration | The believe of making offerings to their ancestors in hope to win their favor. |  | 42 |
| 10569724657 | Golden Age | A period in which a society or culture is at its peak. | 43 | |
| 10569724658 | Mandate of Heaven | A just rulers power was bestowed by the gods. |  | 44 |
| 10569724659 | Upanishads | A foundational text for the set of religious beliefs that later became known as Hinduism. | 45 | |
| 10569724660 | Pictographs | A graphic symbol that represents an idea, concept, or object, rather than representing a single sound, as letter systems do. |  | 46 |
| 10569724661 | Shamans | People who believed to have special abilities to cure the sick and influence the future. | 47 | |
| 10569724662 | Core and Foundational civilizations | Civilizations that developed ways of life, such as language, religious beliefs, and economic practices, that would heavily influence successor civilizations in their regions. | 48 | |
| 10569724663 | City-State | Typically covered several hundred square miles and were independent each with its own government. |  | 49 |
| 10569724664 | Kings | Sumerian military leaders became more important than priests and ruled over a territory known as a kingdom. |  | 50 |
| 10569724665 | Cuneiform | Sumerians created it to keep records which consisted of marks carved onto wet clay tablets. | 51 | |
| 10569724666 | Scribes | Individuals who were charged first with record-keeping and later with the writing of history and myths. |  | 52 |
| 10569724667 | The Epic of Gilgamesh | An epic poem from Mesopotamia, is among the earliest surviving works of literature. | 53 | |
| 10569724668 | Empire | Large territory that included diverse cultural groups. | 54 | |
| 10569724669 | Babylonians | Persians who took control of Mesopotamia and built a new capital city called Babylon. | 55 | |
| 10569724670 | Hammurabi | Babylonian king who codified the laws of Sumer and Mesopotamia (died 1750 BC), and created a set of laws called the Code of Hammurabi. |  | 56 |
| 10569724671 | Code of Hammurabi | Law code introduced when Hammurabi of Babylon took over Sumer in 1760 BC, that dealt with topics such as property rights, wages, contracts, marriage, and various crimes. |  | 57 |
| 10569724672 | Phoenicians | Most powerful traders along the Mediterranean, that occupied parts of present day Lebanon, Israel, and Jordan around 3000 B.C.E. |  | 58 |
| 10569724676 | Nile River | The river in which early kingdoms in Egypt were centered around. |  | 59 |
| 10569724681 | Pharaoh | A king of ancient Egypt, considered a god as well as a political and military leader. |  | 60 |
| 10569724682 | Theocrats | Rulers holding both religious and political power. | 61 | |
| 10569724686 | Hittites | Had military advantage over the Egyptians because they were beginning to use iron tools and weapons. |  | 62 |
| 10569724687 | Book of the Dead | Scrolls that served as a guide for the afterlife in ancient Egypt. |  | 63 |
| 10569724689 | Xia Dynasty | Lasted for about 400 years, little is known because early Chinese had no writing system. |  | 64 |
| 10569724690 | Shang Dynasty | Ruled for 600 years, conquered neighboring peoples and established an empire, wielded tremendous economic and religious power. |  | 65 |
| 10569724691 | Zhou Dynasty | The longest lasting Chinese dynasty, during which the use of iron was introduced. |  | 66 |
| 10569724692 | Feudalism | The network of regional rulers with relationships based on mutual defense agreements. |  | 67 |
| 10569724693 | Maize | One of the first important plants to be grown by the indigenous Americans. |  | 68 |
| 10569724694 | Chavin Civilization | Existed from around 1000 to 200 B.C.E, and centered at Chavin de Huantar. |  | 69 |
| 10569724695 | Olmec | The foundation or core of Mesoamerica advanced civilizations. |  | 70 |
