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| 5170587350 | Paleolithic | -"the old stone age", refers to the food collecting or gathering and hunting way of life -small societies i which relationships were very important -egalitarian, no rulers men and women equal no organized religion |  | 0 |
| 5170608621 | Neolithic | -started the deliberate cultivation of plants and the domestication of animals | 1 | |
| 5170622177 | Olmec | -small self-contained civilizations -earliest known american civilization -known for its pyramids and huge stone heads first written language in america | 2 | |
| 5170637999 | Norte Chico | -highly-developed urban culture -Characterized by massive stepped pyramids and extensive use of cotton |  | 3 |
| 5170647952 | China | -monarch -centralized state -ruler is a divine being -flood control projects -yellow river -mandate of heaven -powerful military -isolated |  | 4 |
| 5170665995 | Indus Valley | -small republics -no political hierarchy -huge area -irrigation -Indus river -traded with Mesopotamia |  | 5 |
| 5170694455 | Egypt | -unified territorial states -women were equal -Nile river -agriculture -long-distance trade -nubia | 6 | |
| 5170708524 | Mesopotamia | -city-states -large populations -class division -code of Hammurabi -Tigris and Euphrates river -unpredictable rivers gave rise to earliest written language -trading |  | 7 |
| 5170731116 | Persia Empire | -imperial state -ruled by satraps -immensely diverse -fought with Greece -red sea, nile, and Persian gulf -monarch -diverse -rich agriculture -administrative system and local authorities |  | 8 |
| 5170765206 | Greece Empire | -city-states -frequent conflict -small peninsula -spoke the same language and worshiped the same gods |  | 9 |
| 5170785014 | Rome Empire | -rags-to-riches -law was very important -slaves -warrior society -patriarchal -monarch to republic -written law code -expansion and conquest -longest lasting empire -Germanic invasion |  | 10 |
| 5170803472 | Qin Dynasty | -Rose after the chaos of the Warring States period -growing population and spread out -aristocracy -bureaucracy -harsh -legalism |  | 11 |
| 5170807242 | Han Dynasty | -Lasted much longer than the Qin Dynasty -Existed at about the same time as the Roman Empire and exchanged trade and diplomatic ties with them along the Silk Roads -Began building the Great Wall of China and canal-digging projects that linked northern and southern China -faced barbarian invasion -Confucianism -imperial states |  | 12 |
| 5170809328 | Mauryan Dynsaty | -stretched from modern Pakistan almost to the southern end of modern India -a peaceful life under Buddhism after years of empire-building -hinduism |  | 13 |
| 5170809329 | Gupta Dynasty | -cultural diversity -caste system -used the ocean fro trade -Buddhist and hindu culture -traded with china |  | 14 |
| 5170876844 | Zoroastrianism | -founded by Iranian prophet -the Avesta books (21) -only one deity -2 major groups -Egypt, Greece, Persia, and india | 15 | |
| 5170887814 | Christianity | -jesus and his disciples (12) -began in the middle east -the bib;e (new and old testaments) -father, son, and holy spirit -one god | 16 | |
| 5170900982 | Hinduism | -oldest -began in Indus valley -no single founder -polytheistic -Vedas books (4) -karma, dharma, moksha | 17 | |
| 5170919834 | Buddhism | -Siddhartha -four noble truths -spread to china | 18 | |
| 5170929889 | Islam | -Muhammad -Allah -Quaran and Hadith -5 pillars -monotheistic | 19 | |
| 5170941340 | Judaism | -israel -Abraham -the torah, tankah, talmud -monotheistic | 20 | |
| 5170948407 | Legalism | -warring state era -no sacred texts -book o law -social order is most important -control government, improve education -qin dynasty | 21 | |
| 5170958567 | Daoism | -live in harmony with dao -go live in nature -tao te jing text | 22 | |
| 5170965386 | Confucianism | -Confucius -5 books (history, poetry, changes, rites, and spring and summer) -optimistic -improving oneself -began in china | 23 | |
| 5170983394 | Axum | -urban centers -complex -second-wave -red sea and Indian ocean -geez was the language -Christianity (and Islam) -highly productive agriculture -plow based |  | 24 |
| 5170995190 | Maya | -concentrated populations -urban centers -rapidly growing and dense populations -city-states -frequent warfare -elaborate water system -landscape engineering -large labor workforce |  | 25 |
| 5171014887 | Teotihuacan | -largest urban complex in the Americas -government is unknown -used their environment for trade -size was used to influence other civilizations -language is unknown -had many valued commodities | 26 |
