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| 7758119723 | Akkadian Empire | the world's first empire | 0 | |
| 7758119724 | Amon-Re | The god of the sun | 1 | |
| 7758119725 | amulet | charm; talisman; an object worn believed to protect against evil, bad luck | 2 | |
| 7758119726 | The Analects | Written collection of Confucius ideas | 3 | |
| 7758119727 | Aryans | immigrants who arrived at the Ganges river valley by the year 1000 BC | 4 | |
| 7758119728 | Assyrians | Semitic-speaking people who exploited the use of iron weapons to establish an empire | 5 | |
| 7758119729 | Babylonians | Famous for the king Hammurabi | 6 | |
| 7758119730 | Book of the Dead | scrolls that served as a guide for the afterlife in ancient Egypt | 7 | |
| 7758119731 | Book of Songs | One of the only remaining books from the Zhou dynasty | 8 | |
| 7758119732 | Cataracts | Fast moving and rocky area of water | 9 | |
| 7758119733 | Chavín | What may have been a religious cult that was in the Andes | 10 | |
| 7758119734 | city-state | a city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state. | 11 | |
| 7758119735 | Civilization | A society with cities, a central government, job specialization, and social classes | 12 | |
| 7758119736 | Confucianism | a Chinese philosophy that emphasizes proper behavior | 13 | |
| 7758119737 | cosmopolitan | Worldly or sophisticated | 14 | |
| 7758119738 | Cultural Diffusion | The spread of ideas, customs, and technologies from one people to another | 15 | |
| 7758119739 | cultural hearths | the geographic origins or sources of innovations, ideas, or ideologies | 16 | |
| 7758119740 | Cuneiform | A form of writing developed by the Sumerians using a wedge shaped stylus and clay tablets. | 17 | |
| 7758119741 | Dravidian | A language believed to be spoken in the Indus Valley | 18 | |
| 7758119742 | Dynasty | a series of rulers from the same family | 19 | |
| 7758119743 | Dynastic Cycle | the pattern of the rise and fall of dynasties | 20 | |
| 7758119744 | Epic of Gilgamesh | An epic poem from Mesopotamia, and among the earliest known works of literary writing. | 21 | |
| 7758119745 | Fertile Crescent | the crescent-shaped area of arable land, that is considered the cradle of civilization | 22 | |
| 7758119746 | Hammurabi | Babylonian King | 23 | |
| 7758119747 | Hammurabi's Code | A collection of 282 laws; that unified the regions city states under one code of laws. | 24 | |
| 7758119748 | Harappa | a large ancient city of the Indus civilization, created in present-day Pakistan | 25 | |
| 7758119749 | Hittites | group of people who lived in modern-day Turkey and northern Syria; and smelted iron in large quantities | 26 | |
| 7758119750 | Horus | Son of Osiris and Isis; represented the pharaohs | 27 | |
| 7758119751 | Hyksos | nomadic people from Asia who conquered and ruled ancient Egypt between 1650 and 1550 B.C | 28 | |
| 7758119752 | Isis | Egyptian goddess of fertility | 29 | |
| 7758119753 | labor systems | system of labor in which people do specialized jobs | 30 | |
| 7758119754 | Late Bronze Age | 1600-1200 B.C.; also called the Mycenaean Age. | 31 | |
| 7758119755 | law code | written set of laws | 32 | |
| 7758119756 | Loess | yellow-brown soil | 33 | |
| 7758119757 | Ma'at | Divinely controlled order of the universe | 34 | |
| 7758119758 | Mandate of Heaven | in Chinese history, the divine approval thought to be the basis of royal authority | 35 | |
| 7758119759 | Matrilineal | of or based on kinship with the mother or the female line | 36 | |
| 7758119760 | Menes | An Egyptian leader who united both upper and lower Egypt into one kingdom | 37 | |
| 7758119761 | Mesopotamia | Land between two rivers | 38 | |
| 7758119762 | Minoans | earliest Greek civilization that had developed on the island of Crete by 2000 B.C.E | 39 | |
| 7758119763 | Mohenjo-Daro | A major city and popular dig site for the Indus Valley | 40 | |
| 7758119764 | Monsoon rains | What the Indus people depended on for water to survive | 41 | |
| 7758119765 | Mycenaeans | A war-like people on the mainland of Greece who conquered the Minoans. | 42 | |
| 7758119766 | Olmec | A civilization in mesoamerica that invented the calander | 43 | |
| 7758119767 | oracle bones | animal bones carved with written characters which were used for telling the future and communicate with ancestors | 44 | |
| 7758119768 | Papyrus | Egyptian paper | 45 | |
| 7758119769 | Patriarch | Male head of the family | 46 | |
| 7758119770 | Pharaoh | A ruler of ancient Egypt | 47 | |
| 7758119771 | Pictograph | A picture or drawing representing words or ideas | 48 | |
| 7758119772 | Rosetta Stone | An ancient Egyptian stone that provided a key to decipher hieroglyphics | 49 | |
| 7758119773 | Semitic | A language that was a precursor to Hebrew and Arabic | 50 | |
| 7758119774 | Shaman | an ancient doctor, healer, or priest, they were called upon for religious ceremonies | 51 | |
| 7758119775 | Shang Dynasty | The Chinese dynasty that ruled the area around the Huang He from 1700 to 1122 B.C.E.; the first Chinese dynasty; had Bronze weapons | 52 | |
| 7758119776 | Shi | Men of service; lower-ranking civil and military officials in the Zhou period. | 53 | |
| 7758119777 | social mobility | the ability to move in social class | 54 | |
| 7758119778 | Sumerians | the creators of the first Mesopotamian civilization | 55 | |
| 7758119779 | systems failure | a breakdown of the political, social, and economic systems supporting a civilization | 56 | |
| 7758119780 | Theocracy | A government controlled by religious leaders | 57 | |
| 7758119781 | Tribute | Money paid for protection | 58 | |
| 7758119782 | Vassals | people who held land under the protection of feudal lords to whom they vowed loyalty | 59 | |
| 7758119783 | Xia Dynasty | Legendary dynasty | 60 | |
| 7758119784 | Zhou Dynasty | the longest lasting Chinese dynasty, during which the use of iron was introduced. | 61 | |
| 7758119785 | Ziggurats | temples built by Sumerians to honor the gods and goddesses they worshipped | 62 |
