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| 10261136133 | Periodization | The process/study of categorizing the past into discrete named blocks of time in order to facilitate the study + analysis of history | 0 | |
| 10261139070 | BCE & CE | Came about during the 17th century; First seen in Johannes Kelper's work | 1 | |
| 10261146037 | BC & AD | The Dionysian or Christian Era; adopted by the Roman Catholic Church during the 11th century | 2 | |
| 10261155428 | Paleolithic Age | (Old stone age) about 750,000 years ago to 14,000 years ago; hunters/gatherers and simple tools | 3 | |
| 10261161639 | Neolithic Age | (New Stone Age) latest part of the Stone Age beginning about 10,000 BC in the middle east (but later elsewhere), invention of agriculture | 4 | |
| 10261163172 | Metallurgy | The study of metals and their properties / the science and technology of extracting metals form their ores, refining them, and preparing them for use; first seen using copper | 5 | |
| 10261294923 | Textiles | The branch of industry involved in manufacturing of cloth; civilizations made textiles | 6 | |
| 10261320680 | Neolithic "revolution" | The discovery of farming and the domestication of animals brought an end to the slow development of the hunting societies of the PALEOLITHIC and MESOLITHIC periods and initiated a time of rapid change that soon produced metal-working, cities, states, and empires | 7 | |
| 10261331805 | The Epic of Gilgamesh | A poem from Ancient Mesopotamia and is among the earliest known works of literary fiction | 8 | |
| 10261340719 | Irrigation | Replacement of rainfall with water from another source (like natural ponds, lakes, streams, and wells) in order to grow crops | 9 | |
| 10318749170 | Hammurabi's Code | A series of laws publicized at the order of King Hammurabi of Babylon. Not actually a code, but a number of laws that proclaim the king's commitment to social order | 10 | |
| 10318749171 | Economic Specialization | A system of organizing the manufacture of an article in a series of separate specialized operations, each of which is carried out by a different worker or group of workers | 11 | |
| 10318749654 | Stratified Patriarchal Society | name given to a category of society and government where all the dictatorship roles are filled by the richest male in the family or area, going by heirs as well as social status (men and how rich they are) | 12 | |
| 10318749655 | Cuneiform | Wedge-shaped writing in the form of symbols incised into clay tablets; used in Mesopotamia. | 13 | |
| 10318749656 | Moses | Hebrew prophet who led the Israelites out of Egypt and delivered the Law during their years of wandering through the wilderness | 14 | |
| 10318750184 | Polytheism | Believing in more than one god | 15 | |
| 10318750185 | Semitic | Family of related languages long spoken across parts of western Asia and northern Africa. In antiquity these languages included Hebrew, Aramaic, and Phoenician. The most widespread modern member of the this language family is Arabic | 16 | |
| 10318750827 | City-state | A small independent state consisting of an urban center and the surrounding agricultural territory. A characteristic political form in early Mesopotamia, Archaic and Classical Greece, Phoenicia, and early Italy | 17 | |
| 10318752061 | Indo-Europeans | Group of Asian peoples who migrated to many different places: Ex. Hittites to Turkey; Aryans to India; from southern Russia | 18 | |
| 10318752910 | Pastoral Nomads | a person who domesticates animals for food and clothing and moves along regular migratory routes to provide a steady source of nourishment for those animals; Steppes | 19 |
