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| 2880527831 | Ziggurat | massive structures built in the ancient Mesopotamian valley and western Iranian plateau, having the form of a terraced step pyramid of successively receding stories or levels. | 0 | |
| 2880545866 | Sumer | ancient civilization and historical region in southern Mesopotamia, modern-day southern Iraq, during the Chalcolithic and the Early Bronze ages. | 1 | |
| 2880632387 | Neolithic Revolution | the wide-scale transition of many human cultures from a lifestyle of hunting and gathering to one of agriculture and settlement, allowing the ability to support an increasingly large population. | 2 | |
| 2880642025 | Economic Changes of the Neolithic Revolution | The surplus of food lessened the need for the entire population to focus on agriculture. This created specialization, which in turn shifted the economy from a resource driven populous to a service driven populous. | 3 | |
| 2880663801 | Cultural Changes of the Neolithic Revolution | Due to the change in economy, people had more free time on their hands. Women more so than men. Women, who once gathered 70% of household daily nutrients, now accounted for o%. The need to treat women equally altogether left social behavior. Women were used solely to breed and grow the population. | 4 | |
| 2880688450 | Labor Changes of the Neolithic Revolution | People went from spending all day hunting and gathering to part of the day doing just one specialized thing. Specialization left out women, who were used for making children to work on agriculture. | 5 | |
| 2880703357 | History | The period of time AFTER the recording of events begun. | 6 | |
| 2880709230 | Pre-History | The period of time BEFORE the recording of events begun. | 7 | |
| 2880715258 | Chinese Bronze Age | This Bronze Age had begun by 1700 B.C. in the kingdom of the Shang dynasty along the banks of the Yellow River in northern China. At times the Shang kings ruled even larger areas. This Bronze Age held extraordinarily different ideas about kingship and religion from Medieval Europe. They believed the king's right to rule was based on his good relations with the spirits of his ancestors who controlled the destiny of the domain. | 8 | |
| 2880726914 | Bronze Age | The time when men began to mine and smelt copper and tin to make bronze weapons and tools. These activities required an organized labor force and skilled craftsmen. | 9 | |
| 2880736158 | Mesopotamian Bronze Age | During this period, bronze supplanted copper as the material from which tools and weapons were made. The rise of the city-state laid the foundation for economic and political stability which would eventually lead to the rise of the Akkadian Empire (2350 BCE) and the rapid growth of the cities of Akkad and Mari, two of the most prosperous urban centers of the time. The cultural stability necessary for the creation of art in the region resulted in more intricate designs in architecture and sculpture, as well as "a number of specific and momentous inventions: the plough and the wheel, the chariot and the sailboat, and the cylinder-seal, the single most distinctive art form of pervasive demonstration of the importance of property ownership and business in the country's daily life," were all either invented or improved upon during this time | 10 | |
| 2880739145 | Bronze Age Collapse | occurred between 1250 and 1000 BCE. During this period the Mycenaean kingdoms, Hittite Empire and the New Kingdom of Egypt all experienced violent and catastrophic collapse. Less developed civilizations, such as the Urnfield culture of Central Europe, were affected as well. Trade was disrupted, nearly every major city was destroyed and literacy rates plummeted. The Mediterranean, the Aegean and Southwest Asia would enter into a dark age that would last until approximately 800 BCE with the start of the Iron Age. The causes of this collapse are largely unknown. The rapid breakdown left behind few clues, written or otherwise. What written records and archaeological evidence that did survive have allowed historians and scientists to create a number of theories as to why such powerful civilizations over such a large geographical area could collapse so quickly and completely. | 11 | |
| 2880745993 | Olmec Civilization | The first major civilization in Mexico following a progressive development in Soconusco. They lived in the tropical lowlands of south-central Mexico, in the present-day states of Veracruz and Tabasco | 12 | |
| 2880750943 | Mesopotamia | Considered to be the cradle of civilization by the Western world, Bronze Age included Sumer and the Akkadian, Babylonian, and Assyrian empires, all native to the territory of modern-day Iraq. In the Iron Age, it was controlled by the Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian Empires. | 13 | |
| 2880757275 | Harappa | Also known as the Indus Valley, it is a Bronze Age civilization c.7500 BC) in northwest Indian subcontinent (including present day Pakistan, northwest India) and also in some regions in northeast Afghanistan. Along with Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, it was one of three early civilisations of the Old World, and the most widespread among them, covering an area of 1.25 million square km. | 14 | |
| 2880768704 | Mohenjo-Daro | One of the largest settlements of the Harappa | 15 | |
| 2880776686 | Shang | Ruled in the Yellow River valley in the second millennium BC, succeeding the Xia dynasty and followed by the Zhou dynasty. | 16 | |
| 2880776687 | Egypt | A civilization of ancient Northeastern Africa, concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River in what is now the modern country of Egypt. It is one of six civilizations globally to arise independently. Egyptian civilization coalesced around 3150 BC. | 17 | |
| 2880781133 | Çatalhöyük | A very large Neolithic and Chalcolithic proto-city settlement in southern Anatolia, which existed from approximately 7500 BC to 5700 BC, and flourished around 7000 BC. | 18 | |
| 2880797796 | Ancient Hebrew Religion | This relationship was based on a covenant binding YHWH and Israel to one another through a series of obligations. Thus, the biblical authors depicted a direct correlation between the patriarchs' (Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob) prosperity and their fidelity to YHWH. Similarly, the deliverance of the Israelites from Egypt into the Holy Land is cast as being conditional on the Israelites' following YHWH's precepts. It follows that the biblical authors attributed the misfortunes that befell the Israelites (e.g. plagues and military failures, etc.) to the Israelites' failure to comply with terms of this covenant. | 19 | |
| 2880799917 | Ancient Vedic Religion | T he religion of the Indo-Aryans of northern India. It is a historical predecessor of modern Hinduism, though significantly different from itA liturgy is conserved in the mantra portion of the four Vedas, which are compiled in Sanskrit. The religious practices centered on a clergy administering rites. This mode of worship is largely unchanged today within Hinduism; however, only a small fraction of conservative śrautins continue the tradition of oral recitation of hymns learned solely through the oral tradition. | 20 | |
| 2880811079 | Code of Hammurabi | a well-preserved Babylonian law code of ancient Mesopotamia, dating back to about 1754 BC. | 21 |
