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| 5721761054 | Austronesian migrations | The last phase of the great human migration that established a human presence in every habitable region of the earth. These people settled the pacific islands and Madagascar in a series of seaborne migrations that began around 3500 yrs ago | 0 | |
| 5721761055 | Banpo | A Chinese archeological site where the remains of a significant Neolithic village have been found | 1 | |
| 5721761056 | Bantu migration | The spread of Bantu-speaking ppl from their homeland in what is now southern Nigeria or Cameroon to most of Africa, in a process that started about 3000 BCE and continued for several millennia | 2 | |
| 5721761057 | Diffusion | The gradual spread of agricultural techniques without extensive population movement | 3 | |
| 5721761058 | Dreamtime | A couples worldview of Australia's aboriginal ppl that held that current humans live in a vibration or echo of ancestral happenings | 4 | |
| 5721761059 | Fertile Crescent | Region sometimes known as Southeast Asia that includes the modern states of Iraq, Syria, Israel/Palestine, and southern Turkey; the earliest home of agriculture | 5 | |
| 5721761060 | Göbekli Tepe | A ceremonial site comprising 20 circles made up of carved limestone pillars located in southeastern turkey. The site, which dates to 11,600 yrs ago, was built by gathering and hunting ppl who lives at least part of the year in settled villages | 6 | |
| 5721761061 | Ishi | The last surviving member of gathering and hunting group known as the Yahi who lived in Northern California. His people were driven into extinction during the second half of the nineteenth century by the intrusion of farming and herding "civilized" societies | 7 | |
| 5730151014 | "The original affluent society" | Used to describe Paleolithic societies, which were regarded as affluent not because they had so much but because the wanted or needed so little | 8 | |
| 5730151015 | Paleolithic settling down | The process by which some Paleolithic people moved toward permanent settlement in the wake of the last Ice Age. Settlements were marked by increasing storage of food and accumulation of goods, as well as growing inequalities | 9 | |
| 5730151016 | Secondary products revolution | Used to describe the series of technological changes that began about 4000 BCE, as people began to develop new uses for their domesticated animals, and exploiting a revolutionary new source of power | 10 | |
| 5730151017 | Shamans | In many early societies a person believed to have the ability to act as a bridge between living humans and supernatural forces, often by means of trance dances induced by drugs | 11 | |
| 5730854246 | Trance dances | In San culture a nightlong ritual held to activate a humans inner spiritual potency to counter act the evil influences of gods and ancestors. They were apparently common to the Khoisan ppl | 12 | |
| 5730854247 | Venus figurines | Paleolithic carvings of the female, often with exaggerated boobs, butts hips and stomach, which may have had religious significance | 13 | |
| 5730854248 | Central Asian/Oxus civ. | A major first civ that emerged around 2200 BCE in Central Asia along the Oxus or Amu-darts river . Focal point for Eurasian system of intellectual and cultural exchange and went away in 1700 BCE | 14 | |
| 5730854249 | Code of Hammurabi | Laws published at the order of a Babylonian king that proclaim the kings commitment to social order | 15 | |
| 5730854250 | Egypt | This country is often known as the gift of the Nike because without the Nile and its flooding people wouldn't be able to survive there, which provided rush soil deposits and made farming possible | 16 | |
| 5730854251 | Epic of Gilgamesh | The most famous extant literary work from ancient Mesopotamia, tells the story of Gilgamesh's quest for I'm mortality | 17 | |
| 5730854252 | Mohenjo daro/ Harappa | Major cities of the Indus Valley civilization both flourished around 2000 BCE | 18 | |
| 5730854253 | Norte Chico/caral | A region in central Peru, home of a civ that developed in the period 3000-1800 BCE and the largest of about 25 urban centers | 19 | |
| 5730854254 | Olmec civilization | An early civ that developed along the Gulf of Mexico around 1200 BCE | 20 | |
| 5730854255 | Paneb | An Egyptian foreman, in charge of a crew of tomb workers, whose misdeeds in 1300 BCE in life were recorded by a rival | 21 | |
| 5730854256 | Patriarchy | Literally rule of the father, a social system of male dominance | 22 | |
| 5730854257 | Rise of the state | Centralization that happened in first civilization, growing out of the greater complexity of urban life and the need for coordination, regulation, adjudication, and military leadership | 23 | |
| 5730854258 | Uruk | Largest city of Mesopotamia and Gilgamesh's home town | 24 | |
| 5730913359 | Alexander the great | Rules form 356-323 BCE, conqueror of the Persian empire and part of northwest India | 25 | |
| 5730913360 | Greco-Persian wars | 2 major Persian invasions of Greece, in 490 BCE and 480 BCE, in which the Persians were defeated on both land and sea | 26 | |
| 5731413164 | Han dynasty | Dynasty that ruled China from 206-220 BCE, creating a durable state based on Shihuangdi's state building achievements | 27 | |
| 5731413165 | Hellenistic era | The period from 323-30 BCE in which Greek culture spread widely in Eurasia and North Africa in the kingdoms ruled by alexanders political successors | 28 | |
| 5731413166 | Mauryan empire | A major empire, 322-185 BCE, that encompassed most of India | 29 | |
| 5731413167 | Qin Shihuangdi | Literally first emperor from the Qin, forcibly reunited China and established a strong repressive state | 30 | |
| 5731413168 | Trung Trac | A Vietnamese woman from an aristocratic military family who led an ultimately unsuccessful revolt against China in 40 CE after execution of her husband | 31 | |
| 5731413169 | Kushan Empire | A sizable and prosperous empire linked to the Silk Road ina region that now encompasses northwestern India, Pakistan, afghanistan, and Tajikistan | 32 | |
| 5731447802 | Ban Zhao | A female Confucian author of Han dynasty whose works give insight into the implication of confusion thinking women | 33 | |
| 5731447803 | Bhagavad Gita | A great Hindu epic text, part of Mahabharata, which affirms the performance of caste duties as a path to religious liberation | 34 | |
| 5731447804 | Church of the Easr | A theologically and organizationally distinct Christian church based in Syria and Persia but with followers in southern India and Central Asia | 35 | |
| 5731580818 | Confucianism | A Chinese philosophy, first enunciated by Confucius, that advocated the moral example of superiors as the key element of social order | 36 | |
| 5731580819 | Greek rationalism | A system of scientific and philosophies thought that developed in classical Greece in 600-300 BCE, it emphasized the power of education and human reason to understand the world in nonreligious terms | 37 | |
| 5731580820 | Jesus of Nazareth | The prophet/god of Christianity | 38 | |
| 5731580821 | Judaism | The monotheistic religion developed by the Hebrews, emphasizing a sole personal god (Yahweh) with concerns for social justice | 39 | |
| 5731580822 | Legalism | A Chinese philosophy distinguished by an adherence to clear laws with vigorous punishment | 40 | |
| 5731580823 | Saint paul | The first great popularizer of Christianity | 41 | |
| 5731645366 | Socrates | The first great Greek philosopher to turn rationalism toward questions of human existence | 42 | |
| 5731739603 | Vedas | The earliest religious texts of India, a collection of ancient poems, hymns, and rituals that were transmitted orally before being written down ca. 600 BCE | 43 | |
| 5731739604 | Zoroastrianism | Persian monotheistic religion founded by the prophet Zarathustra | 44 | |
| 5731739605 | Plato | The greek philosopher who argued that a good society would be ruled by a class of highly educated guardians led by a philosopher-king | 45 | |
| 5731739606 | Aristotle | The Greek philosopher who was a student of Plato and a teacher of Alexander the Great and who was famous for his reflections on ethics. He argued that virtue was a product of rational training and cultivated habit, and could be learned | 46 | |
| 5731739607 | Nalanda | A village in the Bihar region of northeastern India that came to prominence during the 5th century when a huge monastic complex dedicated to Buddhist learning, often viewed as the worlds first university, began to take shape | 47 | |
| 5731739608 | Perpetua | A young female Christian convert from an affluent Roman family who was arrested and tried during the persecution she of new converts ordered by Roman emperor Septimus Severus. She left behind highly personal account of her arrest and trial in her diary | 48 | |
| 5731785479 | Aspasia | A foreign women resident in Athens who was famed for her learning and wit, and was pericles' partner | 49 |
