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7730833385a village in South Central Anatolia with a population of around five thousandCatalhuyuk0
7730850064the priests in Ancient India were called thisBrahmins1
7730884139Yangshao village, not the capital during he last centuries of the Shang dynastyBanpo2
7730891011the hero of the oldest known epicGilgamesh3
7758144288Chinese dynasty known for development, but not monopoly of iron weaponryZhou4
7758152512the sculptures of women usually depicted with exaggerated sexual featuresVenus figurines5
7758154828the Egyptian god of the underworldOsiris6
7758164076people who flourished in Europe from around two-thousand to thirty-five thousand years ago.Neandertal7
7758168033the most important river in early Chinese historyHuanghe8
7758172998the process by which Egyptians preserved bodies of deceased individualsMummification9
7758177442served as co-ruler with her stepson Tuthmosis IIIHatshepsut10
7758183095this cult was a new religion that appeared in the central Andes around 1000 B.C.EChavin11
7758185908a famous Zhou collection of versesBook of songs12
7758190778sea-faring civilization that did not invent the horse-drawn chariotPhoenicians13
7758198234the state was famous for its orange pottery, and it built on the Olmec calendar and graphic symbolsTeotinuacan14
7758203397constructed the largest empire of the Mesopotamian societiesAssyrians15
7758208334writing system invented by the PheoniciansAlphabet16
7758211649the Maya creation mythPopolvuh17
7758220475severing all ties with the physical world and identifying oneself with the ultimate reality of the world spiritMoksha18
7758225603Aryans used this term to refer to the major social classesVarnas19
7761091227city founded by Menes, served as capitol of EgyptMemphis20
7761097976it was crucial to Maya rituals because it was associated with rain and agricultureBloodletting21
7761104109Homo Erectus did not share this with modern humans:Brain size22
7761109627one of the two main cities of the Harappan societyMohenjodaro23
7761115727in an effort to foretell the future, the Shang made use of theseOracle bones24
7761122964people who began metallurgy in MesopotamiaHitittes25
7761131834Tian, an impersonal heavenly power was stolen of by the Chinese in regard to gaining or losing thisMandate of Heaven26
7761133964Copper and Tin produce this metalCopper27
7761142280external invaders who helped bring about the end of the Egyptian Middle KingdomHyksos28
7761241958the earliest Egyptian and Nubian states were theseKingdoms29
7761328195number of years ago that homo sapiens evolved200,00030
7761332061this term means "rubber people"Olmec31
7761335988first people to use wheeled vehiclesSumerians32
7761343733the Chinese began to make extensive use of writing during the _________ dynastyShang33
7761349382the most important development of Homo ErectusCommunication34
7761360166the early Chinese shipped textiles and metal goods to the ancestors of these people in the steppes and receives horses in returnMongols35
7761368520the Olmecs traded extensively in many items but not these because they were introduced later by the SpanishHorses36
7761370853Harappan religion focused on thisFertility37
7761374537Australopithecus did not produce theseCleavers38
7761383101_________ receded into background after the Aryans and Dravidians mixed and intermingledIndra39

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