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4835801463civilizationUsed to describe any group of people sharing a set of cultural traits0
4835803646culture(1) Socially transmitted patterns of action/expression. (2) Material culture: dwellings, clothing, tools, and crafts. (3) Also includes arts, beliefs, knowledge, and technology.1
4835805030historyThe study of past events and changes in the development, transmission, and transformation of cultural practices.2
4835805956Stone AgeThe historical period characterized by the production of tools from stone and other non-metallic substances.3
4835806388PaleolithicPeriod of time in the Stone Age associated with the evolution of man.4
4835806840NeolithicThe period of the Stone Age associated with the ancient Agricultural Revolution.5
4835807639foragersPeople who support themselves by hunting wild animals and gathering wild edible plants and insects.6
4835809198Agricultural Revolutions (ancient)The change from food gathering to food production occurring : 8000-2000 BCE.7
4835809975HoloceneThe geological era since the end of the Great Ice Age about 11,000 years ago.8
4835811373megalithStructures and complexes of very large stones constructed for ceremonial purposes in Neolithic times.9
4835811977BabylonThe largest and most important city in Mesopotamia.10
4835813291SumeriansThe people who dominated Mesopotamia through the end of the 3rd millennium BCE. Responsible for the creation of irrigation, technology, cuneiform, and religious conception.11
4835814247SemiteFamily of related languages long spoken across parts of Western Asia and Northern Africa. Languages included Hebrew, Aramaic and Phoenician.12
4835815265city-stateA small independent state consisting of an urban center and the surrounding agricultural territory.13
4835816413Hammurabi (1792-1750 BCE)Amorite ruler of Babylon. Conquered many city-states in southern/northern Mesopotamia.14
4835817373scribeProfessional position reserved for men who have undergone lengthy training to read and write early writing systems.15
4835818388zigguratA Mesopotamian pyramidal stepped tower of mud bricks.16
4835819299amuletSmall charm meant to protect the bearer from evil.17
4835819488cuneiformA system in which wedge-shaped symbols represented words or syllables.18
4835820002pharaohCentral figure in the ancient Egyptian state. Believed to be a manifestation of the gods.19
4835822446ma'atEgyptian term for the concept of divinely created and maintain order in the universe.20
4835823235pyramidA large, triangular stone monument, used in Egypt and Nubia as a burial place for the king.21
4835823792MemphisCapital of Old Kingdom Egypt, near the head of the Nile Delta.22
4835824798ThebesCapital city of Egypt and home of the ruling dynasties during the Middle and New Kingdoms.23
4835828293hieroglyphicsA system of writing in which pictorial symbols that represented sounds, syllables, or concepts. Used for official and monumental inscriptions in Ancient Egypt.24
4835830780papyrusA reed that grows along the banks of the Nile River in Egypt.25
4835834565mummyBody preserved by chemical processes or special natural circumstances, often in the belief that the deceased will need it again in the afterlife.26
4835835999HarappaSite of one of the great cities of the Indus Valley civilization of the 3rd millennium BCE.27
4835838972Mohenjo-DaroLargest of the Indus Valley civilization.28

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