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| 4746299527 | Paleoanthropology | The study of the earliest humans and their environments. | 0 | |
| 4746299528 | Myth | An interpretive story of the past that cannot be verified historically but may have a deep moral message. | 1 | |
| 4746299529 | Caste | A hierarchical ordering of people into groups, fixed from birth, based on their inherited ritual status. | 2 | |
| 4747878457 | Teleology | The philosophical study of final causes or purpose. | 3 | |
| 4747878458 | Hominid | Any of a family of erect bipedal primate mammals, which includes humans and human like species. | 4 | |
| 4747878459 | Homo sapiens | Wise man, human wise. | 5 | |
| 4747878460 | Homo erectus | The most widespread of all prehistoric hominids, and the most similar to humans. Evolved about 2 million years ago and became extinct 100,000 years ago. | 6 | |
| 4747878461 | Shaman | A belief where if a person is able to enter a trance they have supernatural powers, and have the ability to cure the sick, find lost or stolen property, predict the future, and protect the society from evil spirits. Shamans usually act as a judge or a ruler, and as a priest, shamans direct sacrifices and escort the soul to the after life. | 7 | |
| 4747878462 | Neolithic | The last division of the stone age, immediately preceding the development of metallurgy and corresponding to the ninth to fifth millennia B.C.E. it was characterized by the increased domestication of animals and cultivation of crops. | 8 | |
| 4747878463 | Innovation | The explanation that similar cultural traits, techniques, or objects found among different groups of people were invented independently rather than spread from one group to another. | 9 | |
| 4747878464 | Diffusion | The spread of ideas, objects, or traits from one culture to another. | 10 | |
| 4747878465 | Ziggurat | A temple tower of ancient Mesopotamia, constructed of square or rectangular terraces of diminishing size, usually with a shrine on top built of blue enamel bricks. | 11 | |
| 4747878466 | Pictogram | A pictorial symbol or sign representing an object or idea. | 12 | |
| 4747878467 | Cuneiform | A writing system, the earliest form are in sumerian. The name derives from the wedge-shaped marks made by pressing the slanted edge of a stylus into soft clay. | 13 | |
| 4747878468 | Ideogram | A character or figure in a writing system in which the idea of a thing is represented rather than its name. Languages such as Chinese use ideograms. | 14 | |
| 4747878469 | Hieroglyphics | The writing system in Egypt that used pictograms or ideograms. In ancient Egypt, hieroglyphics were largely used for monumental inscriptions. The symbols depict people, animals and objects, which represent words syllables, or sounds. | 15 | |
| 4747878470 | Mandate of heaven | A concept in China: the ruler as moral authority so long as the heavenly powers granted it to him on the basis of his good character. A well-functioning government was evidence that the ruler possessed the mandate of heaven. A poorly functioning government showed that the mandate passed away. | 16 | |
| 4747878471 | Zimbabwes | Stone wall enclosures or buildings built during the African iron age in the region of modern Zimbabwe and Mozambique. The structures were the courts of local rulers. They have been associated with foreign trade, integrated farming and animal husbandry, and gold production. The great Zimbabwe is the ruins of the fomer capital of the monomatapa empire. | 17 | |
| 4747878472 | Master narrative | The conventional, widely accepted view of the historical record. | 18 | |
| 4747878473 | Hegemony | The predominance of one unit over the others in a group, for example, one state in confederation.it can also apply to rule of an empire over its subject people, when the foreign government is exercised with their substantial consent. | 19 | |
| 4747878474 | Dominance | The imposition of alien government through force, as opposed to hegemony. | 20 | |
| 4747878475 | Balance of power | In international relations, a policy that aims to secure peace by preventing any one state or alignment of states from becoming to dominate. Alliances formed in order to build up a force that is equal or superior to that of the enemy | 21 | |
| 4747878476 | Satrapy | A province or colony in the achaemenid or Persian empire ruled by a satrapy or governor. Darius I completed the division of the empire into provinces, and established 20 satrapy with their annual tributes. The term "satrapy" can also refer to the period of rule of the satrap | 22 | |
| 4747878477 | Deme | A rural district or village in ancient Greece, or its members or its inhabitants. The demes were a constituent part of the polis but had their own corporations with police powers, and their own cults, officials, and property. | 23 | |
| 4747896465 | Hoplite | A heavily armed foot soldier if ancient Greece, whose function was to fight in close formation, usually in ranks of eight men. Each soldier carried a heavy bronze shield, a short iron sword, and a long spear for thrusting. | 24 | |
| 4785881941 | Civilization | An urban way of living, technological, artistic, literary, legal, and ethical accomplishments of any giving society | 25 | |
| 4785881942 | Culture | How the society lives within the civilization | 26 | |
| 4785881943 | Pre-civilization | Pre-urban form of living in which all members are involved with the production of, or securing of, the food supply | 27 | |
| 4785881944 | Tundra zones | Areas of little growth or vegetation; cold climate; not conductive to human habitation | 28 | |
| 4785881945 | Agriculture zone | Areas conductive to agriculture but not usually near trails or rivers; somewhat self-contained. | 29 | |
| 4785881946 | Route zones | Areas near water supplies with venues making it possible to travel to other of the zone possibly beyond the zone | 30 | |
| 4785881947 | Impact zones | Zones lying at the borders of other zones; zones at which cultures meet; often points of recurring battles | 31 | |
| 4785881948 | Geochronology | Determining the age of pre-civilization by counting the layers created by melts of water from receding ice sheets | 32 | |
| 4785881949 | Dendrochronology | Thickness in the layers in branches and around the trunks | 33 | |
| 4785881950 | Carbon-14 dating | Determining the age of a pre-civilization by testing the decay of the carbon isotope 14 found in artifacts | 34 | |
| 4785926073 | Pastoral societies | Pre-civilized nomatic groups that kept and depended upon livestock for sustenance | 35 |
