Klaw students, please use this set to review the Vocab.
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| 7310768829 | Alphabets | Writing systems in which a symbol represents a sound. | 0 | |
| 7310768830 | Archeology | The branch of anthropology that studies prehistoric people and their cultures. | 1 | |
| 7310768831 | Austronesian Language | The family of languages spoken in Australia, Formosa, Malaysia, and Polynesia. | 2 | |
| 7310768832 | Bantu Languages | Descriptive name for languages spoken largely east and south of the present day nation of Nigeria. | 3 | |
| 7310768834 | Bronze Metallurgy | Copper and tin combined to make Bronze. | 4 | |
| 7310768835 | Chariots | A strong military unit of the ancient time, combining horseback riding and wheels. | 5 | |
| 7310768836 | City-State | A city with political and economic control over the surrounding countryside. | 6 | |
| 7310768837 | Cultural Diffusion | The spread of cultural elements from one society to another. | 7 | |
| 7310768838 | Cuneiform | An ancient wedge-shaped script used in Mesopotamia and Persia. | 8 | |
| 7310768839 | Diaspora | The dispersion of the Jews outside of Israel. | 9 | |
| 7310768840 | Domestication | The taming of animals for human use, such as work or as food. | 10 | |
| 7310768841 | Empire | A group of countries under a single authority. | 11 | |
| 7310768842 | The Epic of Gilgamesh | A Mesopotamian story that tells about the quest for immortality and the inevitability of death. | 12 | |
| 7310768843 | Fertile Crescent | A geographical area of fertile land in the Middle East stretching in a broad semicircle from the Nile to the Tigris and Euphrates. | 13 | |
| 7310768844 | Forager | One who searches for food by hunting or gathering. | 14 | |
| 7310768845 | Fortifications | A defensive wall or other reinforcement built to strengthen against an attack. | 15 | |
| 7310768846 | Hammurabi's Code | A legal code developed by King Hammurabi of Mesopotamia. | 16 | |
| 7310768847 | Hebrew Monotheism | Hebrew belief in one god that forms the basis for Judaism, Christianity, and Islam | 17 | |
| 7310768848 | Hierarchy | The organization of people at different ranks in an administrative body. | 18 | |
| 7310768849 | Hieroglyphics | An ancient Egyptian writing system in which pictures were used to represent ideas and sounds. | 19 | |
| 7310768850 | Indo-European Languages | A family of several hundred related languages and dialects, including most major languages of Europe, Iran, and northern India. | 20 | |
| 7310768851 | Iron Metallurgy | Extraction of iron from its ores. | 21 | |
| 7310768852 | Irrigation | Supplying dry land with water by means of ditches or other modes of transporting the water. | 22 | |
| 7310768854 | Neolithic Revolution | The shift from hunting and gathering to agriculture and pastoralism. | 23 | |
| 7310768855 | Nomadic | Groups of people tending to travel and change settlements frequently. | 24 | |
| 7310768857 | Pastoralism | A type of agricultural activity based on nomadic animal husbandry. | 25 | |
| 7310768858 | Patriarchy | Form of social organization in which a male is the family head and title is traced through the male line. | 26 | |
| 7310768859 | Pictographs | Pictures that stand for words or ideas. | 27 | |
| 7310768860 | Polytheism | Belief in multiple gods. | 28 | |
| 7426092297 | Push/Pull Factors | events and conditions that either force people to move elsewhere or strongly attract them to do so. | 29 | |
| 7310768862 | Pyramids | Monumental architecture typical of Old Kingdom Egypt; used as burial sites for pharaohs. | 30 | |
| 7310768863 | Quipu | An arrangement of knotted strings on a cord, used by the Inca to record numerical information. | 31 | |
| 7310768864 | Rig Veda | The first scripture in Hinduism. | 32 | |
| 7310768865 | Sedentary | Not migratory; settled. | 33 | |
| 7310768866 | Social Stratification | The condition of being arranged in social strata or classes within a group. | 34 | |
| 7310768868 | The State | A separate part of an Empire with its on individual government. | 35 | |
| 7310768869 | Urban Planning | Determining and drawing up plans for the future physical arrangement of a community. | 36 | |
| 7310768870 | Vedic Religion | A symbiosis of gods and humans because humans could only prosper in an oriented cosmos system. | 37 | |
| 7310768871 | Ziggurats | Sumerian temples made of sun-dried brick. | 38 | |
| 7310768872 | Zoroastrianism | Dual gods of equal power to form early monotheism; Persian; focused on good vs. evil. | 39 |
