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| 4760313042 | paleolithic era | called the old stone age (from 10,000 to 2.5 million years ago). | 0 | |
| 4760321157 | neolithic era | the period of human culture that began around 12,000 to 10,000 years ago. | 1 | |
| 4760332137 | periodization | division (of history) into periods. | 2 | |
| 4760331910 | metallurgy | the science, technology and arts of metals. | 3 | |
| 4760333209 | neolithic revolution | recent stone age, humans discovered how to domesticate animals and plants (pastoralism and agriculture). | 4 | |
| 4760342070 | mesopotamia subcontinent | region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers that developed the first urban societies. | 5 | |
| 4760342071 | tigris river | eastern member of the two great rivers that define Mesopotamia, along with the Euphrates, which flows from the mountains of Turkey through Iraq. | 6 | |
| 4760342657 | euphrates river | in southwestern Asia; flows into the Persian Gulf. | 7 | |
| 4760343084 | mediterranean sea | trade routes that connected the Mediterranean civilizations together. | 8 | |
| 4760344089 | anatolia subcontinent | the peninsula between the Mediterranean and the Black Seas that is now occupied by most of Turkey; also called Asia Minor. | 9 | |
| 4760361877 | black sea | between Europe and Asia, important trading area. | 10 | |
| 4760362109 | phonicia | Semitic-speaking Canaanites, engaged in widespread commerce. | 11 | |
| 4760362110 | jerusalem | a holy city for Jews, Christians, and Muslims; the capital of the ancient kingdom of Judah and of the modern state of Israel. | 12 | |
| 4760362245 | semitic | a group of languages in a common region consisting of Hebrew, Aramaic, Phoenician, and Arabic. | 13 | |
| 4760362246 | city-state | small independent state consisting of an urban center and the surrounding agricultural territory. | 14 |
