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| 4272041094 | Abraham | -Founder of Judaism who, according to the Bible, led his family from Ur to Canaan in obedience to God's command | 0 | |
| 4272049776 | Aryans | -Indo-European speaking nomads who entered India from the Central Asian steppes between 1500 and 1000 BC and greatly affected Indian society | 1 | |
| 4272052802 | Bantu | -a family of languages widely spoken in the southern half of the African continent | 2 | |
| 4272056713 | Bible | -The book that contains the writings or scriptures that Christians recognize as the written word of God. | 3 | |
| 4272059362 | Brahmins | -Priests, at the top of the caste system which the Aryans established | 4 | |
| 4272066413 | Caste | -a social class separated from others by distinctions of hereditary rank or profession or wealth | 5 | |
| 4272070411 | Catal Huyuk | -One of first true cities in history, created in the Neolithic Era in 6500 to 5500 BC, from which were created agriculture, trading, temples, housing, and religions | 6 | |
| 4272072987 | Chichen Itza | -Originally a Mayan city; conquered by Toltecs circa 1000 and ruled by Toltec dynasties; architecture featured pyramid of Feathered Serpent (Quetzacoatl) | 7 | |
| 4272075261 | cultural diffusion | -The spread of cultural elements from one society to another | 8 | |
| 4272078337 | Cuneiform | -an ancient wedge-shaped script used in Mesopotamia and Persia | 9 | |
| 4272080916 | Dharma | -In Hinduism, the duties and obligations of each caste | 10 | |
| 4272083713 | Dravidians | -one of the main groups of people in India; probably descended from the Indus River culture that flourished at the dawn of Indian civilization over 4,000 yrs. ago | 11 | |
| 4272091417 | Ethnocentrism | -Belief in the superiority of one's own ethnic group | 12 | |
| 4272094764 | Fertile crescent | -Found along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, this was the first early river civilization. The cities in this area were governed by city-states and used irrigation to produced their crops | 13 | |
| 4272098246 | Ganges River | -Located in India, this river is considered sacred to Hindus and is used for spiritual cleansing, funeral rites, and other Hindu rituals | 14 | |
| 4272100064 | Gilgamesh | -a legendary Sumerian king who was the hero of an epic collection of mythic stories | 15 | |
| 4272102675 | Hammurabi | -Amorite ruler of Babylon (r. 1792-1750 B.C.E.). He conquered many city-states in southern and northern Mesopotamia and is best known for a code of laws, inscribed on a black stone pillar, illustrating the principles to be used in legal cases | 16 | |
| 4272106415 | Harappan | -Civilization that developed along the Indus River (Present Day Pakistan), Controlled larges areas of land on both sides of the Indus River, Largest two settlements were _______ and Mohenjo Daro, Known for City planning, sewer systems, indoor plumbing, and fortresses around their cities | 17 | |
| 4272109386 | Hebrews | -the ethnic group claiming descent from Abraham and Isaac (especially from Isaac's son Jacob) | 18 | |
| 4272112654 | Hieroglyphs | -pictures, characters, or symbols standing for words, ideas, or sounds; ancient Egyptians used instead of an alphabet like ours | 19 | |
| 4272147928 | Homo sapiens | -the only surviving hominid | 20 | |
| 4272149423 | Huang He | -a major river of Asia in northern China | 21 | |
| 4272153767 | Ice Age | -Any period of time during which glaciers covered a large part of the earth's surface | 22 | |
| 4272155291 | Irrigation systems | -Replacement or supplementation of rainfall with water from another source in order to grow crops | 23 | |
| 4272159273 | Jericho | -a village in Jordan near the north end of the Dead Sea | 24 | |
| 4272160848 | Karma | -(Hinduism and Buddhism) the effects of a person's actions that determine his destiny in his next incarnation | 25 | |
| 4272164144 | Land bridges | -long ago, after the Flood, little trails of land connecting the continents together | 26 | |
| 4272174970 | Mandate of Heaven | -people believed that heaven gave them the authority to rule. They also believed that heaven would take it away | 27 | |
| 4272179750 | Maya | -a member of an American Indian people of Yucatan and Belize and Guatemala who had a culture (which reached its peak between AD 300 and 900) characterized by outstanding architecture and pottery and astronomy | 28 | |
| 4272184763 | Mesopotamia | -first civilization located between the Tigris & Eurphrates Rivers in present day Iraq; term means "land between the rivers;" Sumerian culture | 29 | |
| 4272187000 | Metallurgy | - the science or art of metals. It includes the study of their properties and structure, the separation and refining of metals from their ores, the production of alloys, and the shaping and treatment of metals by heat and rolling | 30 | |
| 4272193414 | Mohenjo-daro | -Largest city of the Indus Valley civilization. It was centrally located in the extensive floodplain of the Indus River. Little is known about the political institutions of Indus Valley communities, but the large-scale implies central planning. Not Harappa | 31 | |
| 4272194836 | Neolithic Revolution | - the shift from hunting of animals and gathering of food to the keeping of animals and the growing of food on a regular basis around 8,000 BC | 32 | |
| 4272197168 | Nile River | - the world's longest river (4180 miles) | 33 | |
| 4272200840 | nomadic | - (of groups of people) tending to travel and change settlements frequently | 34 | |
| 4272203638 | Nubia | - an ancient region of northeastern Africa (southern Egypt and northern Sudan) on the Nile | 35 | |
| 4272207166 | Olmecs | - (1400 B.C.E. to 500 B.C.E.) earliest known Mexican civilization,lived in rainforests along the Gulf of Mexico, developed calendar and constructed public buildings and temples, carried on trade with other groups | 36 | |
| 4272209282 | Oracle bones | - cattle bones or tortoise shells on which Chinese priests would write questions and then interpret answers from the cracks that formed when the bones were heated | 37 | |
| 4272220878 | Paleolithic | - second part of the Stone Age beginning about 750,00 to 500,000 years BC and lasting until the end of the last ice age about 8,500 years BC | 38 | |
| 4272226221 | Patriarchy | - a form of social organization in which a male is the family head and title is traced through the male line | 39 | |
| 4272228831 | Period of the Warring State | - Civil War broke out in during the Zhou Dynasty, beginning an age known in Chinese historical records as the "____________ of the ____________________ _____________________." | 40 | |
| 4272233359 | Pharaoh | - a king of ancient Egypt, considered a god as well as a political and military leader | 41 | |
| 4272238075 | Phoenicians | - Sailing and trading people who had many colonies on the Mediterranean coast | 42 | |
| 4272240009 | Sanskrit | - (Hinduism) an ancient language of India (the language of the Vedas and of Hinduism) | 43 | |
| 4272247202 | Sati | - a ritual that required a woman to throw herself on her late husband's funeral pyre or burn herself. This was done gladly and if a woman didn't comply with this she would be disgraced | 44 | |
| 4272248476 | Shang dynasty | - Second Chinese dynasty (about 1750-1122 B.C.) which was mostly a farming society ruled by an aristocracy mostly concerned with war. They're best remembered for their art of bronze casting | 45 | |
| 4272251040 | Steppe lands | - semiarid grasslands -stretch from Russia to the Great Wall of China | 46 | |
| 4272257022 | Teotihuacan | - first major metropolis in Mesoamerica, collapsed around 800 CE. It is most remembered for the gigantic "pyramid of the sun" | 47 | |
| 4272261860 | Torah | - (Judaism) the scroll of parchment on which the first five books of the Hebrew Scripture is written | 48 | |
| 4272264514 | Vedas | - sacred texts in the Hindu religion, they are a set of four collections of hymns and religious ceremonies transmitted by memory through the centuries by Aryan priests | 49 | |
| 4272268209 | Xia dynasty | - This was the earliest known dynasty. There is no written evidence of this early time period, but artifacts have been found. The people of this time were farmers and made pottery | 50 | |
| 4272270599 | Zhou dynasty | - the imperial dynasty of China from 1122 to 221 BC; notable for the rise of Confucianism and Taoism | 51 | |
| 4272272800 | Ziggurat | - a rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians | 52 |
