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| 129834456 | Mesopotamia | the civilizations that arose in the alluvial plane of the Tigris and Euphrates river valleys. | 1 | |
| 129834457 | Ziggurats | massive towers usually associated with Mesopotamian temple complexes | 2 | |
| 129834458 | Babylonians | group of people that extended their own empire and thus helped bring civilization to other parts of the Middle East | 3 | |
| 129834459 | Pharaoh | the Egyptian king, possessed immense power | 4 | |
| 129834460 | Ideographic | pictographic characters grouped together to create new concepts; typical of Chinese writing. | 5 | |
| 129834461 | Phoenicians | seafaring civilization located on the shores of the eastern Mediterranean; established colonies throughout the Mediterranean. | 6 | |
| 129834462 | Sumerians | people who migrated into Mesopotamia c 4000 B.C.E.; created first civilization within region: organized area into city-states. | 7 | |
| 129834463 | City-States | a form of political organization typical of Mesopotamian civilizations; consisted of agricultural hinterlands ruled by an urban-based king. | 8 | |
| 129834464 | Hammurabi | the most important ruler of the Babylonian empire; responsible for codification of law. | 9 | |
| 129834465 | Pyramids | monumental architecture typical of Old Kingdom Egypt; used as burial sites for pharaohs | 10 | |
| 129834466 | Shang | first Chinese dynasty for which archeological evidence exists; capital located in Ordos bulge of the Huanghe; flourished 1600 to 1046 B.C.E. | 11 | |
| 129834467 | Monotheism | the exclusive worship of a single god. | 12 | |
| 129834468 | Paleolithic Age | the Old Stone Age ending in 12,000 B.C.E.; typified by use of crude stone tools and hunting and gathering for subsistence. | 13 | |
| 129834469 | Neolithic Age | the New Stone age between 8000 and 5000 B.C.E.; period in which adaptation of sedentary agriculture occurred; domestication of plants and animals accomplished. | 14 | |
| 129834470 | Neolithic Revolution | the succession of technological innovations and changes in human organization that led to the development of agriculture, 8500-3500 B.C.E. | 15 | |
| 129834471 | Hunting and Gathering | system pre-dating agriculture and the Neolithic Revolution. | 16 | |
| 129834472 | Bronze Age | from about 4000 B.C.E.; when bronze tools were first introduced in the Middle East, to about 1500 B.C.E., when iron began to replace it. | 17 | |
| 129834473 | Slash and Burn Agriculture | a system of cultivation typical of shifting cultivators; forest floors cleared by fire are then planted. | 18 | |
| 129834474 | Bands | a level of social organization normally consisting of 20 to 30 people; nomadic hunters and gatherers; labor divided on a gender basis. | 19 | |
| 129834475 | Civilization | societies distinguished by reliance on sedentary agriculture, ability to produce food surpluses, and existence of non-farming elites, as well as merchant and manufacturing groups. | 20 | |
| 129834476 | Cuneiform | a form of writing developed by the Sumerians using a wedge-shaped stylus and clay tablets. | 21 | |
| 129834477 | Nomads | cattle and sheep-herding societies normally found on the fringes of civilized societies; commonly referred to as "barbarian" by civilized societies. | 22 |
