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| 14610855931 | Paleolithic age | time that began 100,000 years ago; nomadic, hunter-gatherers, oral language, fire | 0 | |
| 14610862410 | Agriculture | emerges around 10,000 years ago; the domestication of plants and animals; result=people settled into permanent farming villages and subsistence patterns changed | 1 | |
| 14610865964 | Neolithic Age | time when epidemic diseases spread quickly since all lived in one area, villages became cities which became civilizations, writing develops, and population increases | 2 | |
| 14610869262 | Pastoralism | semi-nomadic peoples who herded animals/foraged but did not practice agriculture on a large scale; developed on grasslands of central asia; impact=overgrazing and spreading of ideas | 3 | |
| 14610875733 | Urbanization | movement into cities | 4 | |
| 14610877526 | Social Hierarchy | divisions/inequality within society which was led by specialization | 5 | |
| 14610880266 | Patriarchy | a form of social organization in which males dominate females because physical strength needed for agricultural tools | 6 | |
| 14610883639 | Bureaucracies | Large administrative agencies reflecting a hierarchical authority, job specialization, and rules and regulations that drive them | 7 | |
| 14610886471 | Centralization | managing government through departments run by appointed officials; Persian satraps is an example | 8 | |
| 14610890214 | Emphasis on Trade | taxing trade through the empire led to great wealth; protecting trade routes was an important government role | 9 | |
| 14610892606 | Infrastructure | facilities needed to operate societies such as walls, roads, and fortifications | 10 | |
| 14610895959 | Why empires collapse | over-extension, political corruption, failing economies, peasant revolts, alienation of elite, disease, invasion | 11 | |
| 14610898403 | Judaism | monotheism; Founder is Abraham; 10 commandments; text is Torah | 12 | |
| 14610900408 | Diaspora | A dispersion of people from their homeland (Israel) | 13 | |
| 14610901064 | Hinduism | polytheism; karma; reincarnation; text is the vedas; follows caste system and cultural unity in India | 14 | |
| 14610904538 | Zoroastrianism | beliefs of free will, right versus wrong, final judgement, founder is Zoroaster, text is zend Avesta; contributed culturally to Persia and influenced later monotheistic religions | 15 | |
| 14610916228 | Buddhism | belief in the four noble truths and eightfold path; founder is Siddhartha Gautama; text is Tripitaka; rejected caste system and welcomed women/lower class and spread on trade routes | 16 | |
| 14610920741 | Christianity | monotheistic; founder is Jesus; rejected caste system, welcomed women/lower class and spread on trade routes | 17 | |
| 14610925484 | Islam | monotheistic; 5 pillars of islam; Mecca and medina are the holy cities; founder is Prophet Muhammad; displaced Zoroastrianism and provided a sense of unity in the middle east | 18 | |
| 14610931155 | Animism | religious belief that focuses on the roles of various gods/spirits in the natural world and human life | 19 | |
| 14610933371 | Shamanism | the practice of identifying special individuals who interact with spirits for the benefit of the community (Korea, Central Asia) | 20 | |
| 14610936515 | Confucianism | A philosophy that adheres to the teachings of the Chinese philosopher Confucius/Kong Fuzi. He was a low level servant but attracted many to his teachings which was collected in the Analects; moral, ethical, political, and practical; taught that patriarchy is the foundation for a stable society | 21 | |
| 14610941037 | Han Dynasty | Han Wudi was important emperor; additional centralization and imperial expansion; relied on confucianism, bureaucracy | 22 | |
| 14610946117 | Filial Piety | all honor superiors; children honor parents, etc | 23 |
