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| 10633976970 | Foraging societies | small groups of people who traveled from point to point as the climate and availability of plants and animals dictated | 0 | |
| 10634011236 | Pastoral societies | characterized by the domestication of animals | 1 | |
| 10634016043 | Neolithic Revolution | A span of several thousand years (10,000 - 8,000 BCE) when groups moved from nomadic lifestyles to agricultural lifestyles and town/city life | 2 | |
| 10634029279 | Polytheistic | believing in more than one god | 3 | |
| 10634035308 | Babylon | The largest and most important city in Mesopotamia | 4 | |
| 10634044415 | The Code of Hammurabi | a written code of rules that guided the ancient society of Babylon and made significant steps towards modern legal codes | 5 | |
| 10634050747 | Ziggurats | terraced pyramids built by Sumerians to honor the gods and goddesses they worshipped | 6 | |
| 10634054068 | Cuneiform | A form of writing developed by the Sumerians | 7 | |
| 10634058704 | Mesopotamia | "Land between the rivers." A region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers that developed the first urban societies | 8 | |
| 10634064429 | Bronze Age | the period in ancient human culture when people began to make and use bronze | 9 | |
| 10634078553 | Cultural diffusion | The spread of ideas, customs, and technologies from one people to another | 10 | |
| 10634085033 | City-state | a city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state | 11 | |
| 10634085034 | Phoenicians | invented the alphabet which used sounds rather than symbols like cuneiform | 12 | |
| 10634095619 | Hebrews | early group of people who lived in lands between Mesopotamia and Egypt. They developed the religion Judaism | 13 | |
| 10634112123 | Pharaohs | wealthy, powerful Egyptian rulers | 14 | |
| 10634117065 | Queen Hatshepsut | The first female ruler known in history, who ruled for 22 years | 15 | |
| 10634128079 | King Menes | Egyptian king who united Upper and Lower Egypt into a single kingdom | 16 | |
| 10634132251 | Rosetta Stone | a huge, stone slab inscribed with hieroglyphics | 17 | |
| 10634139405 | Heiroglyphics | ancient Egyptian writing system using picture symbols for ideas or sounds | 18 | |
| 10634141373 | Bantu | a group of Niger-Congo languages spoken in central and southern Africa | 19 | |
| 10634149815 | Aryans | nomadic tribes from north of the caucasus mountains | 20 | |
| 10634154593 | Brahmins | Priests, at the top of the caste system which the Aryans made | 21 | |
| 10634156677 | Varna | each of the four Hindu castes, Brahman, Kshatriya, Vaishya, and Shudra | 22 | |
| 10634162784 | Verdas | most ancient hindu scriptures, written in early Sanskrit and containing hams, philosophy and ritual guidance | 23 | |
| 10634172875 | Harappa | large ancient city of the Indus civilization, located in present-day Pakistan | 24 | |
| 10634181353 | Mohejo-Daro | one of the largest cities of the Indus River Vally Civilization and one of the earliest urban settlements in the world | 25 | |
| 10634195343 | Hinduism | a major religious and cultural tradition of South Asia, developed from Vedic religion | 26 | |
| 10634199402 | Khyber Pass | A mountain pass connecting Afghanistan and Pakistan | 27 | |
| 10634203304 | Caste System | a social structure in which classes are determined by heredity | 28 | |
| 10634214058 | Upanishads | A series of Hindu sacred treaties written in Sanskrit | 29 | |
| 10634221732 | Dravidians | 30 | ||
| 10634228227 | Xia | A legendary Chinese dynasty that was not believed to exist until relatively recently | 31 | |
| 10634231207 | Zhou | A Chinese dynasty characterized by great intellectual achievements, including the rise of Confucianism and Taoism and the writing of the oldest known Chinese literature | 32 | |
| 10634239732 | Oracle Bones | one of the animal bones or tortoise shells used by ancient Chinese priests to communicate with the gods | 33 | |
| 10634245927 | Patriarchal | relating to a society in which men hold the greatest legal and moral authority | 34 | |
| 10634251486 | Shang | a Chinese dynasty known especially for bronze work | 35 | |
| 10634256543 | Dynasty | a line of hereditary rulers of a country | 36 | |
| 10634261206 | Loess soil | an aeolian sediment formed by the accumulation of wind-blown silt | 37 | |
| 10634264105 | "Mandate of Heaven" | the Chinese philosophical concept of the circumstances under which a ruler is allowed to rule | 38 | |
| 10634272886 | Bering Land Bridge | a strip of land connecting Alaska with Russia that was exposed during the most recent Ice Age | 39 | |
| 10634276692 | Tikal | the ruins of an ancient city found in a rainforest in Guatemala | 40 | |
| 10634283600 | Olmecs | a group of prehistoric people inhabiting the coast of Veracruz and western Tabasco on the Gulf of Mexico, who established what was probably the first Meso-American civilization | 41 | |
| 10634300823 | Chichen Itza | a world-famous complex of Mayan ruins on Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula | 42 |
