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| 10499398763 | Paleolithic Age | called the old stone age; concerned with food supply, used bone tools, nomadic hunters and gatherers; (750000 BCE - 10000 BCE) | 0 | |
| 10499404258 | Neolithic Age | called the new stone age (referring to the latest period of the stone age); transition from food gathering to food producing; plants and animals play a key role in this transition; about 10000 years ago | 1 | |
| 10499409964 | Bronze Age | time period between the stone age and the iron age; characterized by weapons made of iron; involves hunting, gathering, and traveling frequently; (4000 BCE - 1500 BCE) | 2 | |
| 10499418187 | civilization | a human society with advanced forms of government, culture, job specializations, and social classes | 3 | |
| 10499430152 | city-state | A small independent state consisting of an urban center and the surrounding agricultural territory. A characteristic political form in early Mesopotamia, Archaic and Classical Greece, Phoenicia, and early Italy. | 4 | |
| 10499517225 | oracle | a person thought to be a source of wisdom or prophecy; thought to be able to predict the future | 5 | |
| 10499517226 | Monotheism | belief in a single God | 6 | |
| 10499530110 | Homo sapiens sapiens | modern humans; "wise, wise humans," a species that appeared in Africa between 150,000 and 200,000 years ago; they were the first anatomically modern humans | 7 | |
| 10499533501 | Neolithic Revolution | The switch from nomadic lifestyles to a settled agricultural lifestyle is this revolution. | 8 | |
| 10499544272 | slash and burn agriculture | a farming technique in which trees are cut down and burned to clear and fertilize the land | 9 | |
| 10499545875 | Nomads | people who move from place to place | 10 | |
| 10499547895 | ideographic symbols | A type of writing system in which a character or symbol represents an idea or thing without expressing the pronunciation of a word or words. Used in writing systems like those of China or Japan, where it directly represents a concept, idea, or thing. | 11 | |
| 10499550902 | Phoenicians | located on eastern Mediterranean coast; invented the alphabet which used sounds rather than symbols like cuneiform | 12 | |
| 10499560251 | Polytheism | belief in more than one god | 13 |
