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| 7295472786 | Homo sapiens | The first humans they emerged in a small region of Africa about 200,000 years ago and migrated out of Africa about 100,000 years ago. They had bigger brains and greater dexterity than previous hominoid species whom they eventually eclipsed | 0 | |
| 7295472787 | Hunting and Gathering | Lifestyle in which food is acquired through hunting animals fishing and foraging for wild berries nuts fruits and grains rather than planting crops vines or trees. As late as 1500 as much as 15 percent of the world's population still loved by this method | 1 | |
| 7295472788 | Ziggurat | By the end of the third millennium BCE the elevated platform base of a Sumerian temple had transformed into a stepped platform | 2 | |
| 7295472789 | Oracle bones | Animal bones is pushing diviners. Diviners applied intense heat so the shoulder bones of cattle or two turtle shells, which cause them to crack. The diviners would then interpret the cracks as signs from the ancestors regarding royal plans and actions | 3 | |
| 7295472790 | Vedas | Rhymes, hymns, and explanatory text composed by Aryan priests; the Vedas became the most holy scripture and part of their of religious rituals. They were initially passed down orally, in Sanskrit, Brahmans, Priest of Vedic culture, incorporated the texts into ritual and society. The Vedas are considered the final authority of Hinduism. | 4 | |
| 7295472791 | Pastoralism | Hunting and breeding of sheep and goats or other animals as a primary means of subsistence | 5 | |
| 7295472792 | River basins | Area drained by a river, including all its tributaries. River basins were rich and fertile soil, water for irrigation, and plant and animal life, which made them attractive for human habitation. Cultivators were able to produce surplus agriculture to support the first cities. | 6 | |
| 7295472793 | City-State | Political organization based on authority of a single, large city that controls outlying territories | 7 | |
| 7295472794 | Hammurabi's Code | Legal code created by Hammurapi, The most famous of the Mesopotamian rulers, who reigns from 1792 to 1750 B.C.E. Hammurapi sought to create social order by centralizing state authority and creating a grandes legal structure that embodied paternal justice. The code was quite stratified, dividing society into three classes freeman dependent man and slaves eachwith distinctive rights and responsibilities | 8 | |
| 7295472795 | Cuneiform | Wedge-shaped form of writing. As people combined Rebus symbols with other visual marks that contained meaning, they became able to record and transmit messages over long distances by using abstract symbols or signs to denote concepts; search signs later came to represent syllables, which could be joined into words. By impressing these signs into wet clay with a cut end of a reed, scribes engaged in cuneiform | 9 | |
| 7295472796 | Territorial state | Political form that emerged in the riverine cities of Mesopotamia, which was overwhelmed by the displacement of nomadic peoples. These states were kingdoms organized around charismatic rulers who headed large households; each had a defined physical border | 10 | |
| 7295472797 | Ma'at | Term used in ancient Egypt to refer to stability or order, the achievement of which was the primary task of Egypt's ruling kings, the pharaoh | 11 | |
| 7295472798 | Mohenjo Daro | A city of the ancient Harappan civilization, located in the Indus Valley that profited by the fertile lands | 12 | |
| 7295472799 | Paleolithic Age | The old Stone Age | 13 | |
| 7295472800 | Neolithic Age | The beginning of the use of farming and domesticating plants and animals and the development of tools, pottery, and weaving. (The NEW Stone Age) | 14 | |
| 7295546354 | Metallurgy | The branch of science and technology concerned with the properties of metals and their production and purification. | 15 |
