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| 209702301 | Agrarian | relating to rural matters | 0 | |
| 209702302 | Agriculturists | Generate their own foods from planting | 1 | |
| 209702303 | Archeology | the branch of anthropology that studies prehistoric people and their cultures | 2 | |
| 209702304 | Aryans | nomads from Europe and Asia who migrated to India and finally settled; vedas from this time suggest beginning of caste system | 3 | |
| 209702305 | Asceticism | rigorous self-denial and active self-restraint | 4 | |
| 209702306 | Austronesian | the family of languages spoken in Australia and Formosa and Malaysia and Polynesia | 5 | |
| 209702307 | Bureaucracy | nonelective government officials | 6 | |
| 209702308 | Brahman | the highest of the four varnas: the priestly or sacerdotal category | 7 | |
| 209702309 | Brahmins | the priestly caste who led ceremonies | 8 | |
| 209702310 | Caste | (Hinduism) a hereditary social class among Hindus | 9 | |
| 209702311 | Cataracts | strong rapids | 10 | |
| 209702312 | Civilization | a society in an advanced state of social development (e.g., with complex legal and political and religious organizations) | 11 | |
| 209702313 | Cuneiform | an ancient wedge-shaped script used in Mesopotamia and Persia | 12 | |
| 209702314 | Domestication | accommodation to domestic life | 13 | |
| 209702315 | Dynasty | a sequence of powerful leaders in the same family | 14 | |
| 209702316 | Economic specialization | Focusing on one product or service | 15 | |
| 209702317 | Egalitarian | favoring social equality | 16 | |
| 209702318 | Erosion | (geology) the mechanical process of wearing or grinding something down (as by particles washing over it) | 17 | |
| 209702319 | Foraging | the act of searching for food and provisions | 18 | |
| 209702320 | Hammurabi's code | A legal code developed by King Hammurabi of Mesopotamia. The code was influential in the establishment of Hebrew and Islamic law and in the U.S. judiciary system. It specified crimes and punishments to help judges impose penalties. | 19 | |
| 209702321 | Hieroglyphics | a system of writing using symbols or pictures | 20 | |
| 209702322 | Hittites | A people from central Anatolia who established an empire in Anatolia and Syria in the Late Bronze Age. With wealth from the trade in metals and military power based on chariot forces, the hittites vied with New Kingdom Egypt over Syria (p.64) | 21 | |
| 209702323 | Indo-European | A family of languages consisting of most of the languages of Europe as well as those of Iran, the Indian subcontinent, and other parts of Asia | 22 | |
| 209702324 | Karma | (Hinduism and Buddhism) the effects of a person's actions that determine his destiny in his next incarnation | 23 | |
| 209702325 | Loess | a fine-grained unstratified accumulation of clay and silt deposited by the wind | 24 | |
| 209702326 | Maize | tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears: widely cultivated in America in many varieties | 25 | |
| 209702327 | Mandate of Heaven | a political theory of ancient China in which those in power were given the right to rule from a divine source | 26 | |
| 209702328 | Matriarchal | relating to a social system in which the mother is head of the family | 27 | |
| 209702329 | Mercenary | a person hired to fight for another country than their own | 28 | |
| 209702330 | Metallurgy | the science and technology of metals | 29 | |
| 209702331 | Moksha | The Hindu concept of the spirit's 'liberation' from the endless cycle of rebirths. (179) | 30 | |
| 209702332 | Monotheism | belief in a single God | 31 | |
| 209702333 | Neolithic | latest part of the Stone Age beginning about 10,000 BC in the middle east (but later elsewhere) "new stone age" | 32 | |
| 209702334 | Nomad | a member of a people who have no permanent home but move about according to the seasons | 33 | |
| 209702335 | Obsidian | black volcanic rock | 34 | |
| 209702336 | Oracle bones | animal bones carved with written characters which were used for telling the future | 35 | |
| 209702337 | Paleolithic | second part of the Stone Age beginning about 750,00 to 500,000 years BC and lasting until the end of the last ice age about 8,500 years BC "old stone age" | 36 | |
| 209702338 | Pastoralism | A type of agricultural activity based on nomadic animal husbandry or the raising of livestock to provide food, clothing, and shelter. | 37 | |
| 209702339 | Patriarchal | relating to a society in which men hold the greatest legal and moral authority | 38 | |
| 209702340 | Pharaoh | a king of ancient Egypt, considered a god as well as a political and military leader | 39 | |
| 209702341 | Pictographs | pictures that stand for words or ideas; picture writing | 40 | |
| 209702342 | Polytheism | belief in multiple Gods | 41 | |
| 209702343 | Samsara | (Hinduism and Buddhism) the endless cycle of birth and suffering and death and rebirth | 42 | |
| 209702344 | Sati | a ritual that required a woman to throw herself on her late husband's funeral pyre or burn herself. This was done gladly and if a woman didn't comply with this she would be disgraced. | 43 | |
| 209702345 | Savannah | a flat grassland in tropical or subtropical regions | 44 | |
| 209702346 | Self-sufficient | able to provide there own needs | 45 | |
| 209702347 | Varna | (Hinduism) the name for the original social division of Vedic people into four groups (which are subdivided into thousands of jatis) | 46 | |
| 209702348 | Vedas | Ancient Sanskrit writings that are the earliest sacred texts of Hinduism. | 47 | |
| 209702349 | Veneration | a profound emotion inspired by a deity | 48 | |
| 209702350 | Zoroastrianism | system of religion founded in Persia in the 6th century BC by Zoroaster | 49 |
