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| 6834963314 | Paleolithic Age | cultural period of the Stone Age where people used simple chipped stone tools (10,000 BCE) | 0 | |
| 7323728011 | Neolithic Age | New Stone Age - the period of time when people started to farm, make pottery, and weave. Began 8,000 BCE (discovery of agriculture) | 1 | |
| 7323738252 | Slash and Burn Agriculture | a farming technique in which trees are cut down and burned to clear and fertilize the land. We didn't have fertilizer until about 60 years ago | 2 | |
| 7323743922 | Neolithic Revolution | A turning point in the stone age when humans began farming. | 3 | |
| 7333326480 | Pastoralism | the practice of herding as the primary economic activity of a society (raising livestock) *nomads* they move because the animals graze | 4 | |
| 7333326481 | Domestication | the taming of animals for human use, such as work or as food | 5 | |
| 7333329327 | Sedentary | stop moving for food | 6 | |
| 7333330833 | Animism | the belief that all things are living | 7 | |
| 7333330834 | Polytheism | Belief in more than one god | 8 | |
| 7333333289 | foraging | hunting and gathering; searching for food | 9 | |
| 7342328565 | Fertile Crescent | an area of rich farmland in Southwest Asia where the FIRST CIVILIZATIONS began (modern day syria and iraq) | 10 | |
| 7342328566 | Egalitarian societies | Everybody has about equal rank, access to, and power over basic resources. (equality) ex. islam + hunting and gathering | 11 | |
| 7342330095 | Shaman | a person believed to have the power to summon spirits and heal the sick (used in animistic religions; channel animal spirits) | 12 | |
| 7342330096 | Hunting and Gathering Societies | societies that use simple technology for hunting animals and gathering vegetation (Egalitarian) | 13 | |
| 7342331434 | Monotheism | Belief in one God (christianity, judaism, islam) | 14 | |
| 7342333021 | Nomadic (nomads) | people moving about from place to place (used for grazing because they use the land for all it has and have to move to different land for more food) | 15 | |
| 7361157291 | Sumer | an area in the southern part of Mesopotamia, where cities first appeared (fertile crescent) | 16 | |
| 7361161652 | Mesopotamia | Birthplace of the Sumerian civilization among many others. (fertile crescent) | 17 | |
| 7361161653 | Uruk | The world's FIRST city in mesopotamia | 18 | |
| 7361165233 | Pyramids | Huge stone tombs with four triangle-shaped walls that met in a point on top (tomb for pharaohs) | 19 | |
| 7361167525 | Pharaohs | A ruler in ancient Egypt; king - pharaohs can be women | 20 | |
| 7372482728 | Civilization | A society with cities, a central government, job specialization, and social classes | 21 | |
| 7372485942 | Son of Heaven/Mandate of Heaven (divine right) | Son of Heaven: "Title of the ruler of China. It acknowledges the leader's position as intermediary between heaven and earth." Mandate of Heaven: "the belief that a ruler held authority by command of divine force as long as he ruled morally and benevolently." | 22 | |
| 7372485969 | Mohenjo Daro | ancient city of the Indus civilization, located in present-day Pakistan 2,000 BCE | 23 | |
| 7372489456 | Harappa | The site of one of the earliest civilizations in South Asia | 24 | |
| 7372489536 | Epic of Gilgamesh | Mesopotamian narrative poem that was first told in Sumer | 25 | |
| 7372493099 | Code of Hammurabi | The first known system of written law (first law code) | 26 | |
| 7384667743 | Quipu | a system of knotted strings used by the Inca people for keeping records | 27 | |
| 7384669909 | Patriarchal | a society in which men hold the greatest legal and moral authority | 28 | |
| 7384672866 | Matriarchal | rule or leadership is done by women or mothers; existed in africa and the middle east in ancient times | 29 | |
| 7395465607 | Hieroglyphic | a writing system using picture symbols used by the egyptians | 30 | |
| 7395467994 | Ziggurat | a pyramid-shaped structure with a temple at the top (in mesopotamia) |  | 31 |
| 7395470660 | Metallurgy | Extraction and processing of metals to make tools; 3000 BCE; diffuses from egyptians | 32 |
