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| 7199050528 | prehistory | the time before writing was developed | 0 | |
| 7199051232 | homo sapiens | the first anatomically modern humans | 1 | |
| 7199052551 | hunting and gathering | a food-collecting way of life | 2 | |
| 7199053260 | Paleolithic Era | Old Stone Age; most defining accomplishment was the "peopling of the Earth" | 3 | |
| 7199055197 | Neolithic Era | New Stone Age | 4 | |
| 7199055824 | sedentary | settled | 5 | |
| 7199056256 | Neolithic Revolution | the transition from food gathering to agriculture that began around 10,000 BCE | 6 | |
| 7199057750 | bands | small groups of 25-50 people; mostly family relationships | 7 | |
| 7199058767 | social hierarchies | the division of people into high and low status | 8 | |
| 7199060232 | animists | they felt that natural objects like mountains or rivers contained spirits within them | 9 | |
| 7199062336 | intensification | getting more benefit from fewer resources (ex.- more calories out of less land by farming) | 10 | |
| 7199064011 | civilization | a complex sedentary society that developed because of food surpluses gained from the development of agriculture | 11 | |
| 7199065324 | Bronze Age | 3000 BCE- 600 BCE named due to the adoption of bronze metallurgy by many civilizations developed mostly in river valleys | 12 | |
| 7199068225 | domestication | humans changing plants and animals in their environment to be better suited to human needs | 13 | |
| 7199070280 | Catalhuyuk | in modern Turkey (elaborate later) | 14 | |
| 7199070707 | Mesopotamia | on the banks of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers of modern Iraq first civilizations came about in around 3500 BCE | 15 | |
| 7199075119 | Fertile Crescent | the city states of mesopotamia | 16 | |
| 7199078967 | polythiests | had multiple gods | 17 | |
| 7199079789 | ziggurats | huge stepped pyramid temples for the worship of personified natural forces like the goddess Inanna | 18 | |
| 7199083697 | the epic of gilgamesh | An epic poem from Mesopotamia, is among the earliest surviving works of literature tells the story of a wild man Enkidu who becomes civilized with the help of a goddess' temple- uruk | 19 | |
| 7199087446 | pastoralist peoples | nomadic herders who kept domesticated animals | 20 | |
| 7199088367 | specialization of labor | possible in agricultural societies | 21 |
