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| 3854385356 | Nomadic Hunters and Gatherers | 40,000 BCE They were nomadic tribes that traveled in search of food | 0 | |
| 3854386967 | Neolithic Revolution | (10,000 - 8,000 BCE) The development of agriculture and the domestication of animals as a food source. This led to the development of permanent settlements and the start of civilization. | 1 | |
| 3854388456 | Shifting cultivation | A form of subsistence agriculture in which people shift activity from one field to another; each field is used for crops for relatively few years and left fallow for a relatively long period. | 2 | |
| 3854389268 | Slash and Burn Agriculture | a farming technique in which trees are cut down and burned to clear and fertilize the land | 3 | |
| 3854390721 | Fertile Crescent | The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers gave life to the first known agricultural villages in this area about 10,000 years ago and the first known cities about 5,000 years ago. Includes Mesopotamia, Palestine, and the Nile. | 4 | |
| 3854392317 | How Ancient Egypt was Characterized | Was ruled by pharaohs. They were an agriculture-based society and a patriarchal society. They built irrigation systems / pyramids as royal tombs. They used hieroglyphic writing. Located near the Red/Mediterranean Sea and hostile deserts which discouraged foreign invaders | 5 | |
| 3854393590 | How Indus River Valley Civilizations were Characterized | Harappan was the first society. There is little information. Aryans migrated here bringing order to the society. Built grand structures, such as dams, city walls, a fortified citadel, and a large granary | 6 | |
| 3854396255 | The Persian Empire | Ancient Middle Eastern empire comprising modern day Iran. The Persian Empire dominated the Middle East from the middle of the 6th century BCE to about the end of the 5th century BCE. Later conquered by Alexander the Great. | 7 | |
| 3854396980 | Greek City-states | Also known as Polis. Developed out of the political chaos of the 1100's (BCE). Each Polis was independent and so a range of political institutions developed across the Balkan Peninsula and Aegean Islands. The largest city-states were Athens and Sparta | 8 | |
| 3854399341 | Alexander the Great | Successor of Philip II; attempted to combine Greek and Persian cultures; great leader | 9 | |
| 3854399342 | Hellenistic Age | The time between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BCE and the expansion of the Roman empire. | 10 | |
| 3854401362 | Roman Republic | The ancient Roman state from 509 BC until Augustus assumed power in 27 BC. was governed by an elected Senate but dissatisfaction with the Senate led to civil wars that culminated in a brief dictatorship by Julius Caesar. | 11 | |
| 3854402241 | Julius Caesar | Roman military and political leader transformaed the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire | 12 | |
| 3854403748 | The Silk Road | Ancient trade routes that extended from the Roman empire in the west to China in the east | 13 | |
| 3854404627 | Indian Cast System | division of society into four castes based on social class | 14 | |
| 3856069530 | Gupta Empire | Powerful Indian state based, like its Mauryan predecessor, on a capital at Pataliputra in the Ganges Valley. It controlled most of the Indian subcontinent through a combination of military force and its prestige as a center of sophisticated culture | 15 | |
| 3856069815 | Buddhism | he teaching of Buddha that life is permeated with suffering caused by desire, that suffering ceases when desire ceases, and that enlightenment obtained through right conduct and wisdom and meditation releases one from desire and suffering and rebirth | 16 | |
| 3856070464 | Darius | King of Persia. He was able to become a king after a year of a civil war following the death of someone. He is responsible for the expansion of Persia. He made a province in western India and expanded Persia as far north as Macedonia | 17 | |
| 3856070749 | Aninism | The doctrine that all natural objects and the universe itself have souls | 18 | |
| 3856071522 | Harappa | Site of one of the great cities of the Indus Valley civilization of the third millennium B.C.E. It was located on the northwest frontier of the zone of cultivation , and may have been a center for the acquisition of raw materials | 19 | |
| 3856072633 | Chavin | First major urban civilization in South America. Capital is de Huantar, was located in the Andes Mountains of Peru. | 20 | |
| 3856075723 | Mayan Empire | 2500 BCE to 900 CE. Located in southeastern Mexico. Had independent city-states that were unified by culture, religion and trade | 21 | |
| 3856076546 | Pax Romana | A period of peace and prosperity throughout the Roman Empire, lasting from 27 B.C. to A.D. 180. | 22 | |
| 3856077068 | Direct Democracy | A form of government in which citizens rule directly and not through representatives | 23 | |
| 3856077636 | Constantine | Roman emperor. After reuniting the Roman Empire, he moved the capital to Constantinople and made Christianity a favored religion | 24 |
