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| 4942024301 | Hunting and Gathering | means of obtaining subsistence by humans before the mastery of sedentary agriculture; normally typical of band social organization. | 0 | |
| 4942035557 | Civilization | societies with reliance on sedentary agriculture, ability to produce food surpluses, and existence of nonfarming elites, along with merchant and manufacturing groups. | 1 | |
| 4942038706 | Paleolithic | the Old Stone Age ending in 12,000 B.C.E.; typified by use of evolving stone tools and hunting and gathering for subsistence. | 2 | |
| 4942042855 | Neolithic | 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. | 3 | |
| 4942045294 | Nomads | cattle- and sheep-herding societies normally found on the fringes of civilized societies; commonly referred to as "barbarian" by civilized societies. | 4 | |
| 4942050951 | "Savages" | societies engaged in either hunting and gathering for subsistence or in migratory cultivation; not as stratified or specialized as civilized and nomadic societies. | 5 | |
| 4942053729 | Culture | combinations of ideas, objects, and patterns of behavior that result from human social interaction. | 6 | |
| 4942055908 | Homo sapiens | the species of humanity that emerged as most successful at the end of the Paleolithic. | 7 | |
| 4942058358 | Neanderthals | species of genus homo that disappeared at the end of the Paleolithic. | 8 | |
| 4942062452 | band | a level of social organization normally consisting of between 20 and 30 people; nomadic hunters and gatherers; labor divided on a gender basis. | 9 | |
| 4942065484 | Agrarian revolution | occurred between 8000 and 5000 B.C.E.; transition from hunting and gathering to sedentary agriculture. | 10 | |
| 4942067802 | Natufian complex | preagricultural culture; located in present -day Israel, Jordan, and Lebanon; practiced collection of wild barley and wheat to supplement game; large settlement sites. | 11 | |
| 4942074122 | Matrilocal | a culture in which young men upon marriage go to live with the bride's family. | 12 | |
| 4942075613 | Matrilineal | family descent and inheritance traced through the female line. | 13 | |
| 4942079882 | Pastoralism | a nomadic agricultural life-style based on herding domesticated animals; tended to produce independent people capable of challenging sedentary agricultural societies. | 14 | |
| 4942081982 | Huanghe or Yellow river basin | site of the development of sedentary agriculture in China. | 15 | |
| 4942087253 | Mesoamerica | Mexico and Central America; along with Peru, site of development of sedentary agriculture in western hemisphere. | 16 | |
| 4942090112 | Jericho | early walled urban culture based on sedentary agriculture; located in modern Israel- occupied West Bank near Jordan river. | 17 | |
| 4942092054 | Çatal Huyuk | early urban culture based on sedentary agriculture; located in modern southern Turkey; larger in population than Jerico, had greater degree of social stratification. | 18 | |
| 4942093818 | Bronze Age | from 4000 to 3000 B.C.E.; increased use of plow, metalworking; development of wheeled vehicles, writing. | 19 |
