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| 3224148971 | australopithecines | several species of the earliest bipedal hominins, now extinct, whose remains have been found in eastern Africa | 0 | |
| 3224165270 | holocene | Period of rising global temperatures | 1 | |
| 3224183945 | microlith | a small blade of flaked stone used as a tool | 2 | |
| 3224191123 | paleolithic | meaning "old stone age," this period dates from approximately 2.5 million yrs ago, when hominin species first devised stone tools, to about 12,000 yrs ago, when humans starting experimenting with agriculture | 3 | |
| 3224207507 | bureaucracy | a hierarchy of official within a government that carries out the laws, decrees, and functions of the state | 4 | |
| 3224210848 | Catal Huyuk | Largest Neolithic center; located in turkey | 5 | |
| 3224223334 | cuneiform | Earliest form of writing | 6 | |
| 3224255596 | neolithic era | period from about 10,000 to 4000 BCE characterized by refined stone tool-making and the development of agriculture "new Stone Age" | 7 | |
| 3224280342 | Sumer | First civilization in Mesopotamia | 8 | |
| 3224706305 | Hittite Kingdom | Controlled central Anatolia starting in 1600 BCE; Hatuza was its capital | 9 | |
| 3224721995 | lingua franca | a spoken or written language that facilitate commercial or diplomatic communication across cultural frontiers | 10 | |
| 3224726199 | Minoan Civilization | Early Greeks, living on Crete, worshipping a bull deity | 11 | |
| 3224729304 | Mycenaean society | First mainland Greeks; conquered Crete; led by warrior aristocrats | 12 | |
| 3224741024 | Oracle bones | Written inscriptions on animal bone fragments | 13 | |
| 3224754545 | Shang dynysaty | First Chinese dynasty | 14 | |
| 3224791593 | milpa | in Mesoamerica a farm plot created by cutting or burning forest and planted with maize, squash, beans, and other crops | 15 | |
| 3224795530 | Olmec | First urban society in Mesoamerica | 16 | |
| 3224798149 | terra preta | a type of nutritionally rich soil that farmers of Amazonia produced by mixing charcoal, organic matter, and pottery shards. Literally "black earth" in Portuguese. | 17 | |
| 3226556323 | Brahmanism | Early form of Himduism | 18 | |
| 3226565281 | caste | a social class more or less rigidly separated from other classes by distinctions of hedgy, occupation, wealth, or degree of ritual purity | 19 | |
| 3226568472 | cavalry | the part of a military force trained to fight mounted on horses or camels | 20 | |
| 3226570948 | commercial diaspora | merchants who share cultural identity but who live among alien communities to operate networks of trade | 21 | |
| 3226594162 | Mandate of Heaven | Chinese belief that Tian granted emperor's right to rule | 22 | |
| 3226600774 | monotheism | the doctrine or belief that there is one supreme and universal deity | 23 | |
| 3226611693 | serfdom | a system of labor in which farmers were legally bound to work for and pay fees to a particular landlord in return for protection and rights to cultivate land. | 24 | |
| 3226616473 | Upanishads | Collection of sacred texts within Brahiminism | 25 | |
| 3226621565 | Zhou Dynasty | (First Chinese dynasty to receive Mandate of Heaven | 26 | |
| 3226848119 | Buddhism | Founder Sardatha Gatama; ultimate goal is to reach Nirvana | 27 | |
| 3226849992 | chattel slavery | a type of slavery in which the bonded individual has the social and sometimes legal status of unit of property and therefore no formal rights or privileges in law | 28 | |
| 3226866825 | Jainism | Founded by Maha Vera, life of self denial more strict than in Buddhism | 29 | |
| 3226877040 | oligarchy | a political system in which a relatively small number of individuals or families control the government | 30 | |
| 3226893578 | Satrapy | an administrative unit of the Persian empire under the authority of a satrap, or provincial governor | 31 | |
| 3226913764 | universal empire | a multiethnic state whose ruler claimed a right to authority over all of mankind | 32 | |
| 3226915771 | Zoroastrianism | First dualist religion | 33 | |
| 3237704298 | Sinification | process whereby non-Han Chinese societies come under the influence of Han Chinese state and society | 34 | |
| 3237777460 | Universalistic Religion | religion that attracts people from around the world | 35 | |
| 3237795769 | Daoism | Founder is Laozi, believed that trying to Chang the world led to mayhem and confusion | 36 | |
| 3237811472 | Han Empire | Chinese dynasty that incorporated Confucianism into its government | 37 | |
| 3237841599 | Qin Dynasty | Dynasty that emerged from the era of the Warring States | 38 | |
| 3237853794 | Legalism | Belief that human nature is corrupt, and it must be controlled by the government | 39 | |
| 3237857395 | Xiongnu Dynasty | Nomadic tribe that defeated the Han in the 2nd century; recognized as political equals to the Hans | 40 | |
| 3237885586 | Primogeniture | legal and customary right that the firstborn child will inherit all of his fathers possessions. Excludes all other children | 41 | |
| 3237919042 | Corveé labor | unpaid labor required by the king, an estate lord, or another person of authority | 42 | |
| 3238148491 | ascetisism | the principle and practice of renouncing material comforts and pleasures in pursuit of an elevated moral or spiritual state | 43 | |
| 3238171257 | Byzantine empire (Byzantium) | the eastern empire of former Rome | 44 | |
| 3238192581 | eunuch | a castrated male who typically served as a functionary in a royal court, especially as an attendant in the female quarters (harem) | 45 | |
| 3238214000 | heresy | in Christianity, beliefs or practices that contradict the church's official doctrine | 46 | |
| 3238220219 | Huns | Nomadic group partially responsible for the fall of Western Rome | 47 | |
| 3238229889 | liturgy | the established forms of public worship, especially the order of services, including rituals, prayer, readings, and hymns | 48 | |
| 3238235341 | Mahayana Buddhism | Form of Buddhism that sees Buddha as a God or Savior | 49 | |
| 3238242239 | Manichaesim | Founded by Mani. It combined Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Zoroastrianism | 50 | |
| 3238291702 | Sasanid empire | Conquered the Parthians; first king was Artishur I | 51 | |
| 3238295889 | Theravada Buddhism | Variant of Buddhism that esteemed full-time devotion to monastic life. Belief that to attain nirvana meant gaining freedom from the cycle of suffering | 52 |
