4824475521 | Venus Figurines | Prehistoric statues of women | 0 | |
4824475522 | Clovis Culture | People who made a shaft point. Arrows | 1 | |
4824475523 | Shamens | People who were believed to travel to spiritual world. | 2 | |
4824475524 | Gobekli Tepe | Ancient structure ceremonial religious use. | 3 | |
4830279823 | Fertile Cresent | An area located in southwest Asia that was the site of major breakthroughs in agriculture due to the mass variety of wild plants and animals. | 4 | |
4830279824 | Diffusion | Gradual spread of cultural norms from one area to another by contact. | 5 | |
4830279825 | Bantu Migration | Bantu speaking people moved east and south from the present day Nigeria and Cameroon. | 6 | |
4830279826 | Pastoral Societies | For people who don't live in places where it is easy to grow food, animal husbandry relying on products of animals. Meat, fiber, hides, milk. | 7 | |
4830304639 | Chiefdoms | Inherited position of power where unlike kings Chiefs couldn't just use force they had to rely on their generosity. | 8 | |
4830456317 | Catal Huyuk | Hunter/gatherer village in south Turkey that flourished between 7400 and 6000 B.C.E. It had gender and social equality with no kings, Chiefs or any other leader | 9 | |
4846649828 | Indus Valley Civilizations | Unlike other middle eastern civilizations, it had no palaces, temples, elaborate graves, Kings, warrior classes. No evidence of political hierarchy or centralized state. | 10 | |
4846649829 | Central Asian/Oxus Civilizations | 2200bce within a couple centuries containing shops, temples, residential compounds, surrounded by tall walls and gates. Didn't develop literal culture. | 11 | |
4846649830 | Olmec Civilizations | 1200bce coast of Gulf of Mexico in south Mexico. Grew maize, beans, squash. Series of Chiefdoms. Ceremonial center filled with temples, altars, pyramids, tombs of rulers | 12 | |
4846649831 | Uruk | Ancient Mesopotamias biggest city. Walls 20 feet tall and population of around 50,000. City's center was stepped pyramid topped with temples. Specialty jobs | 13 | |
4846649832 | Epic of Gulgamesh | Mesopotamias ancient epic poem | 14 | |
4846649833 | Mohenjo Daro/Harappa | Banks of Indus River. 2000bce population of 40,000 sister city is Harappa. Large houses indoor pluming bathrooms private wells | 15 | |
4846649835 | Patriarchy | System of government- males hold the power and women are excluded from it | 16 | |
4864221812 | Rise of the state | The state started becoming more popular because it was easier than how it was before in almost every way. | 17 | |
4872245267 | Sumer | First urban civilization in ancient Mesopotamia. | 18 | |
4872245268 | Egypt | Civilization is present day Egypt that stretched about 1,000 miles along the Nile river. | 19 | |
4872245269 | Nubia | Region along Nile River in present day north Sudan and south Egypt very early civilization. | 20 | |
4889950354 | Persian Empire | In 500bce largest and world most impressive empire | 21 | |
4889950355 | Athenian democracy | First democracy in the world. Created in Athens. | 22 | |
4889950356 | Greco-Persian Wars | Series of conflicts between Persian empire and Greece. Or wars | 23 | |
4889950357 | Alexander the Great | King of Ancient Greece, lead massive Greek expedition against Persian empire | 24 | |
4889950358 | Hellenistic era | After Alexander the Great died(323-30 bce). Widespread dissemination of Greek culture | 25 | |
4919569647 | Augustus | Founder of Roman empire | 26 | |
4919569648 | Pax Romana | The peace that existed between people in Roman Empire. | 27 | |
4919569649 | Qin Shihuangdi | First Emperor and founder of the Qin dynasty. | 28 | |
4919569650 | Han dynasty | Second imperial lasted from 206 bce to 220 ce | 29 | |
4948423687 | Legalism | Inspired the short win dynasty, lots of laws and rules that are strictly enforced with rewards and punishments. | 30 | |
4948423688 | Confusionism | Created by Confucius, education is the key to moral betterment became synonymous with Chinese culture and was nonreligous in character. | 31 | |
4948423689 | Ban Zhao | First known female Chinese historian. She wrote lessons for women and competed brothers book. | 32 | |
4948423690 | Daoism | Was founded by Laozi, was a complement to Confucianism, dao-central concept of daoist thinking. | 33 | |
4959169768 | Vedas | A sacred text- collections of poems, hymns, prayers, rituals. | 34 | |
4959169769 | Upanishads | A body of sacred text, composed by largely anonymous thinkers in 800 to 400bce. | 35 | |
4959169770 | Siddhartha Gautama | Founder of Buddhism, prince from small North Indian state. | 36 | |
4959169771 | Theravada/Mahayana | Different types of Buddhism have the main structure the same but a little different. | 37 |
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