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| 2865774151 | Paleolithic Age | The old stone age ending in 12,000 BCE; typified by use of crude stone tools and hunting and gathering for subsistence. | 0 | |
| 2865774152 | Homo Sapiens | The humanoid species that emerged as most successful at the end of the Paleolithic Period | 1 | |
| 2865774153 | Neolithic Age | The New Stone Age between 8000 and 5000 BCE; period in which adaptation of sedentary agriculture occurred; domestication of plants and animals. | 2 | |
| 2865774154 | Hunting and gathering | the original economy, ultimately eclipsed by agriculture; groups that hunt for meat and forge for grains, nuts and berries. | 3 | |
| 2865774155 | Bronze Age | from about 4,000 BCE, when bronze tools were first introduced in the Middle East, to about 1500BCE when iron began to replace it. | 4 | |
| 2865774156 | Slash and burn agriculture | A system of cultivation typical of shifting cultivators; Forest floors cleared by fire are then planted | 5 | |
| 2865774157 | civilization | societies distinguished by reliance on sedentary agriculture, ability to produce food surpluses, and existence of non farming elites, as week as merchant and manufacturing groups | 6 | |
| 2865774158 | Catal Huyuk | Early urban culture based on sedentary agriculture; located in modern southern turkey; was larger in population then Jericho; had greater degree of social stratification | 7 | |
| 2865774159 | Nomads | cattle and sheep herding societies normally found on the fringes of civilized societies; commonly referred to as barbarian by civilized societies | 8 | |
| 2865774160 | Mesopotamia | literally between the rivers; the civilizations that arose in the alluvial plain of the Tigris and Euphrates river valleys | 9 | |
| 2865774161 | Sumerians | people who migrated into Mesopotamia created first civilization within region; organized area into city-states | 10 | |
| 2865774162 | Indus River valley | river sources in Himalayas to mouth in Arabian Sea; location of harappan civilization | 11 | |
| 2865774163 | Harappa | along with mohenjodara, major urban complex of the harappan civilization; laid out on planned grid pattern | 12 | |
| 2865774164 | Shang dynasty | first Chinese dynasty for which archeological evidence exists; capital located in ordos buldge of the huanghe; flourished 1600 to 1046 BCE | 13 | |
| 2865774165 | Zhou | originally a vassal family of Shang China; overthrew the Shang and established second historical Chinese dynasty that flourished 1122 to 256 BCE | 14 | |
| 2865774166 | Feudalism | social system where the nobility held lands from the crown in exchange for military service | 15 | |
| 2865774167 | Mandate of Heaven | Chinese religious ideology developed by Zhou, it was prerogative of heaven to grant power to ruler of China/ take it away | 16 | |
| 2865774168 | qin | established in 221 BCE to the end of the warring states period following the decline of the Zhou dynasty; fell in 207 BCE | 17 | |
| 2865774169 | Shi Huangdi | founder of Qin dynasty, United China in 221BCE | 18 | |
| 2865774170 | warring states period | period in ancient China concluding with the victory of the state of Qin in 221bce, creating a unified China | 19 | |
| 2865774171 | Confucius | Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher | 20 | |
| 2865774172 | laozi | philosopher + poet of ancient China, founder of Taoism | 21 | |
| 2865774173 | Daoism | living in harmony with the Tao/Dao philosophical, ethical +religious tradition of Chinese origin | 22 | |
| 2865774174 | legalism | excessive adherence to law, dependence on moral law rather than on personal religious faith | 23 | |
| 2865774175 | great wall | Chinese defensive fortification untested to keep out the nomadic invaders from the north | 24 | |
| 2865774176 | Han | Chinese dynasty that succeeded the Qin in 202 BCE | 25 | |
| 2865774177 | Buddha | creator of Buddhism, born in 6th century BCE | 26 | |
| 2865774178 | Alexader the great | conquered Persian empire | 27 | |
| 2865774179 | Himalayan mountains | site of aryan settlements that formed small kingdoms | 28 | |
| 2865774180 | Aryans | Indo-european nomadic pastoralists who replaced harappan civilization | 29 | |
| 2865774181 | Sanskrit | sacred + classical Indian language | 30 | |
| 2865774182 | Mahabharata | Indian epic of war, honor, love, + social duty | 31 | |
| 2865774183 | Ramayana | take tracing adventurers of king Roma + his wife Sita | 32 | |
| 2865774184 | Upanishads | contained sophisticated philosophical ideas, later books in the Vedas | 33 | |
| 2865774185 | Varnas | clusters of caste groups in aryan society | 34 | |
| 2865774186 | untouchables | low social class in Hindu culture | 35 | |
| 2865774187 | Indra | chief duty of the Aryans (colossal, hard-drinking warriors) | 36 | |
| 2865774188 | Chandragupta Maurya | founder of Maurya dynasty | 37 | |
| 2865774189 | Maurya dynasty | established in Indian subcontinent in 4th century BCE | 38 | |
| 2865774190 | Ashoka | grandson on chandragupta maurya, spread Buddhism throughout his empire | 39 | |
| 2865774191 | dharma | caste position + career determined by a persons birth | 40 | |
| 2865774192 | Gupta dynasty | succeeded the Kushans in 3rd century BCE | 41 | |
| 2865774193 | kautilya | political advisor, believed in scientific application of warfare | 42 | |
| 2865774194 | gurus | served as teachers for the princes of the imperial court of the guptas | 43 | |
| 2865774195 | karma | weirdly pleasures | 44 | |
| 2865774196 | reincarnation | attachment of the soul to some animal form | 45 | |
| 2865774197 | nirvana | Buddhist state of enlightenment | 46 | |
| 2865774198 | kamasutra | offered instructions on all aspects of life for higher-caste males | 47 | |
| 2865774199 | scholar-gentry | mental linkage of the land holding aristocrat with office holding shi | 48 | |
| 2865774200 | shiva | Hindu god of destruction/reproduction | 49 | |
| 2865774201 | Vishnu | the Brahmin(god of sacrifice) | 50 |
