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| 7366458511 | Agriculture | The deliberate effort to modify a portion of Earth's surface through the cultivation of crops and the raising of livestock for sustenance or economic gain | 0 | |
| 7366527257 | Ancestor Worship | Belief that dead ancestors can influence one's fortunes in life. Those who practice often conduct rituals and ceremonies to the memory or remains of their ancestors. | 1 | |
| 7366554047 | Bureaucracy | a system of government or business that has many complicated rules and ways of doing things with a large group of people running the government that are not elected Ex. Sumer (Mesopotamia) | 2 | |
| 7366568266 | Civilization | a society in an advanced state of social development (e.g., with complex legal and political and religious organizations) | 3 | |
| 7366570205 | Culture | The characteristic features of a group or people: includes food, religion, etc. | 4 | |
| 7366655122 | Cuneiform | Denoting or relating to the wedge-shaped characters used in the ancient writing systems of Mesopotamia | 5 | |
| 7366657160 | Disapora | A Greek word meaning 'dispersal,' used to describe the communities of a given ethnic group living outside their homeland. Jews, for example, spread from Israel to western Asia and Mediterranean lands in antiquity and today can be found in other places. | 6 | |
| 7366682251 | Dharma | Hindu concept of obedience to religious and moral laws and order; also; the basic doctrine of Buddhism | 7 | |
| 7366686956 | Diffusion | the spread of cultural elements from one area or group of people to others by contact Ex. the spread of Buddhism from India through trade in Asia | 8 | |
| 7366698427 | Domestication | process of changing plants or animals to make them more useful to humans | 9 | |
| 7366706160 | Dynastic Cycle | an important political theory in Chinese history that states that every dynasty goes through a cultural cycle that occur during its rise and fall Ex. Zhou Dynasty used this as an excuse to take over a part of China during the Shang Dynasty. | 10 | |
| 7366710901 | Egalitarian | a person who believes in the equality of all people | 11 | |
| 7366717638 | Hieroglyphics | The Egyptian writing called hieroglyphics used pictures to represent different objects, actions, sound or ideas | 12 | |
| 7366720296 | Karma | the force created by a person's actions that is believed in Hinduism and Buddhism to determine what that person's next life will be like Ex. Indus River Valley believed in a sort of karma | 13 | |
| 7366733997 | Mandate of Heaven | Chinese belief that the emperors ruled through the mandate, or approval, of heaven contingent on their ability to look after the welfare of the population Ex. created during the Zhou Dynasty to justify the end of the Shang Dynasty and a big part of Chinese belief from then on | 14 | |
| 7366736924 | Metallurgy | definition: metalworking, manipulation of metals into tools or jewelry significance: allowed more useful tools for agriculture and was a specialization made possible by the agricultural transition | 15 | |
| 7366744408 | Monothestic | belief in a single God | 16 | |
| 7366747822 | Neolithic | The New Stone Age from circa 8500 to 4500 BCE: The period of the Stone Age associated with the ancient Agricultural Revolution(s) | 17 | |
| 7366750098 | Nomadic | (of groups of people) tending to travel and change settlements frequently | 18 | |
| 7366753212 | Oracle Bones | In Chinese civilization, animal bones that were heated and the cracks then interpreted as prophecies. The prophecies were written on the bone and provide our earliest written sources for ancient China. | 19 | |
| 7366773053 | Paleolithic | The Old Stone Age from circa 750,00 to 500,000 years BCE to 8,500 years BCE: The period of the Stone Age associated with the evolution of humans and the development of minor tools | 20 | |
| 7366778006 | Pastoralism | social organization based on livestock raising as the primary economic activity Ex. Mongols | 21 | |
| 7366791551 | Patriarchal | A form of social organization in which a male is the family head and title is traced through the male line | 22 | |
| 7366804854 | Polytheistc | Belief in multiple gods | 23 | |
| 7366818231 | Prehistoric | Prehistory was the period of time before writing had been invented while history is any time after writing had been invented where humans now know exactly what had happened rather than making assumptions | 24 | |
| 7366862476 | Sedentary | remaining in one place | 25 | |
| 7366877223 | Stratification | To divide or arrange into classes or castes | 26 | |
| 7366890469 | Textiles | a fabric that is woven or knit Ex. Silk | 27 | |
| 7366895107 | Theocracy | government run by religious leaders | 28 | |
| 7366904287 | Ziggurat | a temple or tomb of the ancient Assyrians, Sumerians, or Babylonians, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories | 29 |
