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5751465019civilizationAn ambiguous term often used to denote more complex societies but sometimes used by anthropologists to describe any group of people sharing a set of cultural traits0
5751480517cultureSocially transmitted patterns of human action and expression1
5751637195historyThe study of past events and changes in the development, transmission, and transformation of cultural practices2
5751645608Stone AgeThe historical period characterized by the production o tools rom stone and other nonmetallic substances3
5751667879PaleolithicThe period o the Stone Age associated with the evolution of humans4
5751677443NeolithicThe period of the Stone Age associated with the ancient Agricultural Revolution(s)5
5751691803foragersPeople who support themselves by hunting, fishing, and gathering wild edible plants and insects6
5751701560Agricultural RevolutionsThe change from food gathering to food production that occurred between about 8000 and 2000 B.C.E. Also known as the Neolithic Revolution7
5751729446HoloceneThe geological era since the end of the Great Ice Age about 13,000 years ago8
5751736667megalithsStructures and complexes of very large stones constructed for ceremonial and religious purposes in Neolithic times9
5751750234SumeriansThe people who dominated southern Mesopotamia through the end of the third millennium B.C.E10
5751762317SemiticFamily 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 number of the Semitic family is Arabic11
5885910829City-stateA small independent state consisting of an urban center and the surrounding agricultural territory. A characteristic political form in early Mesopotamia, Archaic and classical Greece, Phoenician, and early Italy12

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