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| 7353774452 | marker event | events in that are very significant or involved a big change inn something | 0 | |
| 7353774453 | perspective | point of view | 1 | |
| 7353775589 | demography | study of population Greek meanings: demos - people/population graphe to describe | 2 | |
| 7353775590 | migrations | permanent moves to a new location | 3 | |
| 7353777314 | push factor | encourages people to migrate to somewhere else | 4 | |
| 7353777315 | pull factor | attracts migrating people to new region | 5 | |
| 7353779692 | intervening obstacles | physical features that slow/halt migration | 6 | |
| 7353779693 | cultural diffusion | the process of moving innovations, technology, religion, languages, food, clothing, disease (or culture) through population movement | 7 | |
| 7353787565 | periodization | dividing history into smaller chunks of time to make studying a period easier | 8 | |
| 7353796085 | agriculture | the deliberate tending of crops and livestock to produce food and fiber | 9 | |
| 7353796086 | bipedalism | the preference of walking on two legs rather then four | 10 | |
| 7353798584 | Catal Huyuk | a small city in southern Turkey | 11 | |
| 7353800728 | division of labor | giving different people different jobs rather than all doing the same one | 12 | |
| 7353800729 | horticulture | similar to agriculture but only used hand tools used animals to pull plows first to settle in one place | 13 | |
| 7353803139 | independent invention | the forming of ideas and innovations using no cultural diffusion | 14 | |
| 7353804578 | Jericho | a small city on the Jordan River | 15 | |
| 7353804579 | Lucy | a three million year old African skeleton that was a cross between a human and a bipedal ape | 16 | |
| 7353807890 | Neolithic Craft Industries | Pottery: stored food, waterproof Metallurgy: weapons, tools, jewelry Textiles:early as 6000 B.C.E., made cloth | 17 | |
| 7353810040 | Neolithic/Agricultural Revolution | a marker event that refers to the change over from gathering food (hunter-gatherer) to producing food (agriculture) | 18 | |
| 7353810041 | Paleolithic Age | Old Stone Age 70,000-8000 B.C.E. | 19 | |
| 7353811663 | pastoralism | the domesticating of animals and remaining semi nomadic | 20 | |
| 7353811664 | polytheism | the belief in multiple gods | 21 | |
| 7353812998 | primary sources | original evidence from the time period | 22 | |
| 7354216562 | private property | the process of people settling down and accumulating goods and land | 23 | |
| 7353814315 | specialization | giving people the jobs they do the best so all the work can get done faster | 24 | |
| 7353814316 | surplus | more crops than the farmer needs for just his family | 25 | |
| 7353818926 | Akkadian Empire | the first true empire led by Sargon the Great conquered all of Sumeria and Fertile Crescent dominated by town of Akkad | 26 | |
| 7353818927 | Amon-Re | Egyptian god of the sun | 27 | |
| 7353820431 | Analects | a collection of Confucius's works put together by the people who knew him | 28 | |
| 7353820432 | Aryans | conquered the Indus Valley Civilization in 1500 B.C.E. invaders from the NW spoke Indo-European languages | 29 | |
| 7353820433 | Assyrians | conquered the Hittite empire in Mesopotamia in 900 B.C.E. | 30 | |
| 7353822232 | Babylonians | led by Hammurabi who conquered the Akkadian empire in Mesopotamia New Babylonians again conquered Assyrian Empire in Mesopotamia in 500 B.C.E. | 31 | |
| 7353822233 | Book of the Dead | a book containing all of the rituals for preparing the Egyptian dead for the afterlife | 32 | |
| 7353823433 | Book of Songs | a collection of Chinese poetry | 33 | |
| 7353823434 | cataracts | areas where water was too fast and rocky for boats to go through | 34 | |
| 7353823435 | Chavin | 900-250 B.C.E civilization in Andean S America | 35 | |
| 7353824615 | city-state | a large town that governed the surrounding land | 36 | |
| 7353824616 | civilization | surpluses specialized jobs social class distinctions city growth formal governments long distance trade writing | 37 | |
| 7353826041 | Confucianism | values and beliefs of philosophy and religion | 38 | |
| 7353826042 | cosmopolitanism | the shared cultures and lifestyles that result when groups are in constant contact with each other | 39 | |
| 7353828697 | cultural hearths | places where civilizations first began to come up with ideas | 40 | |
| 7353828698 | cuneiform | "wedge-shaped" the writing of Mesopotamia using a reed and wet clay | 41 | |
| 7361376363 | divination | a way of communicating with gods to determine their intentions | 42 | |
| 7353831923 | Dravidian | a language similar to the ones spoken in southern India | 43 | |
| 7353831924 | dynasty | consecutive rulers from the same family | 44 | |
| 7353831925 | dynastic cycles | rise, gain strength, weakened, taken over by new dynasty | 45 | |
| 7353834829 | Epic of Gilgamesh | 2000 B.C.E wrote down the story that had been passed down orally since 6000 B.C.E Gilgamesh wanted immortality (failed) Utnapishtm was like Noah and flood | 46 | |
| 7353834830 | Fertile Crescent | Mid-East area from Mesopotamia to Egypt Sumeria | 47 | |
| 7353837044 | Hammurabi | leader of the Babylonians who conquered the Akkadian Empire in Mesopotamia | 48 | |
| 7353838487 | Hammurabi's Code | inscribed o a black pillar used to give judges examples of punishments and justice in the first Babylonian empire | 49 | |
| 7353838488 | Harappa | the second major city in the Indus valley civilization | 50 | |
| 7353839919 | Hatshepsut | only female pharaoh of Egypt (1473-1458 B.C.E) started as a regent (stand in) for her son but then ruled on her own she thought of herself as a man more for trade rather than war | 51 | |
| 7353839920 | Hittites | conquered Babylonian empire in Mesopotamia in 1500 B.C.E. Originated in Anatolia (Turkey) lots of trade used iron working to hep military | 52 | |
| 7353839921 | Horus | sky god pharaohs are reincarnations of him represented by hawk son of Isis and Osiris | 53 | |
| 7353841191 | Hyksos | a people from modern day Turkey that conquered the Egyptians because of their bronze weapons | 54 | |
| 7353841192 | Isis | Egyptian goddess of Nile and fertility | 55 | |
| 7353842610 | labor systems | coordinated efforts to get the work done | 56 | |
| 7353842611 | Late Bronze Age | 1700-1100 B.C.E characterized by the development of cosmopolitanism | 57 | |
| 7353844066 | law code | a systematic set of rules administered by the government | 58 | |
| 7353844067 | loess | thick fertile yellow ish soil deposited from the flood of the Yellow River in China | 59 | |
| 7353844068 | ma'at | divinely controlled order of universe | 60 | |
| 7353845776 | mandate of heaven | dynasties ruled as long as they pleased the gods actions against gods - overthrown | 61 | |
| 7353845777 | matrilineal | female line of descent | 62 | |
| 7353847567 | Menes | first pharaoh united upper and lower Egypt | 63 | |
| 7353847568 | Mesopotamia | "land between two rivers" Tigris and Euphrates Fertile Crescent modern day Turkey | 64 | |
| 7353847569 | Minoans | an advanced civilization in Crete named after King Minos | 65 | |
| 7353850036 | Mohenjo-Daro | one of the major cities in the Indus Valley Civilization | 66 | |
| 7353850037 | monsoon rains | feed Indus rivers and tributaries with seasonal winds and rains | 67 | |
| 7353851988 | Mycenaeans | an advanced civilization on the Greek mainland warlike and aggressive controlled trade in the region | 68 | |
| 7353851989 | Olmec | "rubber people" 1200-400 B.C.E civilization in Mesoamerica | 69 | |
| 7353853500 | oracle bones | wrote questions on bones, put in fire, cracked, interpreted cracks as answer from gods | 70 | |
| 7355091453 | Osiris | Egyptian god of afterlife | 71 | |
| 7353853501 | papyrus | picked reeds, cut open, pressed together, and laid out to dry, the sap glued them together then scribes could write on it | 72 | |
| 7353853502 | patriarchy | dominated by men | 73 | |
| 7353855019 | pharaoh | heart of the government god-king had more power than anyone else in history believed to be reincarnations of Horus | 74 | |
| 7353857528 | pictographs | pictures representing animals, people, and objects | 75 | |
| 7353857529 | Rosetta Stone | the stone used to decode the Egyptian Hieroglyphics | 76 | |
| 7353859577 | Sargon the Great | leader of invading Semitic group that first conquered Sumeria | 77 | |
| 7353861285 | Semitic | language that was the precursor to Hebrew and Arabic | 78 | |
| 7353861286 | shaman | people who could write and who used oracle bones | 79 | |
| 7353862821 | Shang Dynasty | the first real Chinese dynasty lasted from 1750-1200 B.C.E | 80 | |
| 7353862822 | shi | best educated men in empire scribes, clerks, advisors, overseers kept records ran public works organized rituals | 81 | |
| 7353862823 | social mobility | the ability for people to change social classes | 82 | |
| 7353864451 | Sumerians | first non-Semetic group in Mesopotamia first true civilization first to use city-states | 83 | |
| 7353864452 | systems failure | a breakdown of the political, economical, and social systems that hold a civilization together | 84 | |
| 7353866463 | theocracy | governed by gods or priests | 85 | |
| 7353866464 | tribute | payment in produce from ordinary people that supported the king and his court | 86 | |
| 7353866465 | vassals | governors of a specific area that worked only for the king | 87 | |
| 7353868340 | Xia Dynasty | the first Chinese dynasty that still hasn't been proved to exist | 88 | |
| 7353868341 | Zhou Dynasty | 1100 B.C.E. - conquered Shang Dynasty formed longest lived dynasty first dynasty to keep records | 89 | |
| 7353875027 | ziggurats | large multi-story pyramids dedicated to a specific god in the middle of each city-state | 90 |
