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| 7242750655 | Tigris and Euphrates | The Tigris is the eastern member of the two great rivers that define Mesopotamia, the other being the Euphrates | 0 | |
| 7242750972 | Mesopotamia | an ancient region in W Asia between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers: now part of Iraq. | 1 | |
| 7242751632 | Fertile Crescent | an area in the Middle and Near East: formerly fertile, now partly desert. | 2 | |
| 7242752400 | Carthage | an ancient city-state in N Africa, near modern Tunis: founded by the Phoenicians in the middle of the 9th century b.c.; destroyed in 146 b.c. | 3 | |
| 7242752917 | Sahara | a desert in N Africa, extending from the Atlantic to the Nile valley. | 4 | |
| 7242754122 | Kalahari | a desert region in SW Africa, largely in Botswana | 5 | |
| 7242754291 | Nile River | a river in E Africa, the longest in the world, flowing N from Lake Victoria to the Mediterranean | 6 | |
| 7242754969 | desertification | the processes by which an area becomes a desert. | 7 | |
| 7242755423 | Indus River Valley | The Indus Valley Civilisation or Harappan Civilisation was a Bronze Age civilisation mainly in the northwestern regions of South Asia, extending from what today is northeast Afghanistan to Pakistan and northwest India | 8 | |
| 7242755913 | environmental | the aggregate of surrounding things, conditions, or influences; surroundings | 9 | |
| 7242755914 | degradation | the wearing down of the land by the erosive action of water, wind, or ice. | 10 | |
| 7242756459 | deforestation | to divest or clear of forests or trees | 11 | |
| 7242756621 | Huang He | The Yellow River or Huang He is the third longest river in Asia, | 12 | |
| 7242757002 | Chiang Jiang | The Yangtze, known in China as the Cháng Jiāng or the Yángzǐ Jiāng, is the longest river in Asia and the third-longest in the world | 13 | |
| 7242757003 | loess | a loamy deposit formed by wind, usually yellowish and calcareous, common in the Mississippi Valley and in Europe and Asia. | 14 | |
| 7242757571 | Mesoamerica | the area extending approximately from central Mexico to Honduras and Nicaragua in which diverse pre-Columbian civilizations flourished. | 15 | |
| 7242757834 | maize | corn | 16 | |
| 7242758266 | Oceania and Polynesia | Polynesia is a subregion of Oceania, made up of over 1,000 islands scattered over the central and southern Pacific Ocean | 17 | |
| 7242758740 | division of labor | the assignment of different parts of a manufacturing process or task to different people in order to improve efficiency. | 18 | |
| 7242758741 | barter | to trade by exchange of commodities rather than by the use of money. | 19 | |
| 7242758986 | ziggurats | a temple of Sumerian origin in the form of a pyramidal tower, consisting of a number of stories and having about the outside a broad ascent winding round the structure, presenting the appearance of a series of terraces | 20 | |
| 7242759490 | astronomy | the science that deals with the material universe beyond the earth's atmosphere. | 21 | |
| 7242759491 | astrology | the study that assumes and attempts to interpret the influence of the heavenly bodies on human affairs. | 22 | |
| 7242759651 | Hebrews | people from Israel | 23 | |
| 7242760218 | Israelites | one of a group considered by its members or by others as God's chosen people. | 24 | |
| 7242760219 | Jews | a person whose religion is Judaism. | 25 | |
| 7242761148 | Abraham | a male given name: from a Hebrew word meaning "father of many. | 26 | |
| 7242761149 | Moses | the Hebrew prophet who led the Israelites out of Egypt and delivered the Law during their years of wandering in the wilderness. | 27 | |
| 7242761405 | Ten Commandments | the precepts spoken by God to Israel, delivered to Moses on Mount Sinai | 28 | |
| 7242761660 | monotheism | the doctrine or belief that there is only one God. | 29 | |
| 7242761935 | Jewish Diaspora | The Jewish diaspora or exile is the dispersion of Israelites, Judahites and later Jews out of their ancestral homeland and their subsequent settlement in other parts of the globe. | 30 | |
| 7242761936 | theocrats | a person who rules, governs as a representative of God or a deity, | 31 | |
| 7242762152 | Aten | a solar deity declared by Amenhotep IV to be the only god, represented as a solar disk with rays ending in human hands. | 32 | |
| 7242762153 | mummification | to make (a dead body) into a mummy, as by embalming and drying. | 33 | |
| 7242762516 | Aryans | Ethnology. a member or descendant of the prehistoric people who spoke Indo-European. | 34 | |
| 7242762517 | Hindi | the most widely spoken of the modern Indic vernaculars, especially its best-known variety, Western Hindi. | 35 | |
| 7242763016 | Vedes and Vedic Age | The Vedic period (or Vedic age) ( c. 1500 - c. 500 BCE), in Northern Indian subcontinent at the Indus Valley, and at the Ganga basin, has been named after the period in the and history of Indian subcontinent in the Iron Age in Indian subcontinent during which the Vedas | 36 | |
| 7242763017 | brahmin | a person usually from an old, respected family who, because of wealth and social position | 37 | |
| 7242763338 | brahama | "the Creator," the first member of the Trimurti, with Vishnu the Preserver and Shiva the Destroyer | 38 | |
| 7242763339 | dharma | conformity to religious law, custom, duty, or one's own quality or character. | 39 | |
| 7242763559 | karma | Hinduism, Buddhism. action, seen as bringing upon oneself inevitable results, good or bad, either in this life or in a reincarnation | 40 | |
| 7242764622 | moksha | freedom from the differentiated, temporal, and mortal world of ordinary experience. | 41 | |
| 7242764924 | ancestor veneration | The veneration of the dead, including one's ancestors, is based on love and respect for the deceased. In some cultures, it is related to beliefs that the dead have a continued existence, and may possess the ability to influence the fortune of the living. | 42 | |
| 7242764925 | Golden Age | the period in life after middle age, traditionally characterized by wisdom, contentment, and useful leisure. | 43 | |
| 7242765232 | scribes | a person who serves as a professional copyist, especially one who made copies of manuscripts before the invention of printing. | 44 | |
| 7242765828 | The Epic of Gilgamesh | The Epic of Gilgamesh is an epic poem from ancient Mesopotamia that is often regarded as the earliest surviving great work of literature | 45 | |
| 7242766392 | cuneiform | composed of slim triangular or wedge-shaped elements, as the characters used in writing by the ancient Akkadians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, and others. | 46 | |
| 7242766766 | alphabetic script | a writing system based on alphabetic characters | 47 | |
| 7242767360 | heiroglyphics | designating or pertaining to a pictographic script, particularly that of the ancient Egyptians | 48 | |
| 7242767923 | papyrus | a material on which to write | 49 | |
| 7242767924 | Book of the Dead | The Book of the Dead is an ancient Egyptian funerary text, used from the beginning of the New Kingdom to around 50 BCE. | 50 | |
| 7242768585 | Indo European | a large, widespread family of languages, the surviving branches of which include Italic, Slavic, Baltic, Hellenic, Celtic, Germanic, and Indo-Iranian, spoken by about half the world's population | 51 | |
| 7242768871 | Sanskrit | an Indo-European, Indic language, in use since c1200 b.c. as the religious and classical literary language of India | 52 | |
| 7242769181 | Rig Veda | one of the Vedas, a collection of 1028 hymns, dating from not later than the second millennium b.c. | 53 | |
| 7242769442 | Upanishads | any of a class of speculative prose treatises composed between the 8th and 6th centuries b.c. and first written a.d. c1300 | 54 | |
| 7242769449 | pictographs | a record consisting of pictorial symbols, as a prehistoric cave drawing or a graph or chart with symbolic figures representing a certain number of people, | 55 | |
| 7242770182 | glyphs Austronesian speakers | are various populations in Asia, Oceania and Africa that speak languages of the Austronesian family | 56 | |
| 7242770683 | patriarchal | of or relating to a patriarch, the male head of a family, tribe, community, church, order, etc | 57 | |
| 7242770684 | clans | a group of people of common descent; family: | 58 | |
| 7242770987 | feudalism | the feudal system, or its principles and practices. | 59 | |
| 7242771501 | Sumer and Sumerians | of or relating to Sumer, its people, or their language. | 60 | |
| 7242771502 | Uruk | of or relating to Sumer | 61 | |
| 7242771774 | city states | a sovereign state consisting of an autonomous city with its dependencies. | 62 | |
| 7242772267 | king | a male sovereign or monarch; a man who holds by life tenure, | 63 | |
| 7242772268 | kingdom | a state or government having a king or queen as its head. | 64 | |
| 7242772725 | Babylonians | Babylonia was an ancient Akkadian-speaking state and cultural area based in central-southern Mesopotamia. A small Amorite-ruled state emerged in 1894 BC, w | 65 | |
| 7242772726 | empire | a government under an emperor or empress. | 66 | |
| 7242773047 | Phoenicians | Phoenicia was a thalassocratic ancient Semitic civilization, that originated in the Eastern Mediterranean and in the west of the Fertile Crescent. | 67 | |
| 7242773381 | Old, Middle, and New Kingdom | The Old Kingdom is the period in the third millennium BC when Egypt attained its first continuous peak of civilization - the first of three so-called "Kingdom" periods (followed by the Middle Kingdom and New Kingdom) which mark the high points of civilization in the lower Nile Valley. | 68 | |
| 7242773712 | Hyksos | a nomadic people who conquered and ruled ancient Egypt between the 13th and 18th dynasties, c1700-1580 b.c. | 69 | |
| 7242773713 | Hittites | The Hittites were an Ancient Anatolian people who established an empire centered on Hattusa in north-central Anatolia around 1600 BC | 70 | |
| 7242773714 | Kush | The Kingdom of Kush or Kush was an ancient kingdom in Nubia, located at the confluences of the Blue Nile, White Nile and River Atbara in what is now Sudan and South Sudan | 71 | |
| 7242774014 | Axum | The Kingdom of Aksum was an ancient kingdom located in present-day Eritrea and the Tigray Region of Ethiopia. Ruled by the Aksumites, it existed from approximately 100 AD to 940 AD. | 72 | |
| 7242774588 | Dravidians | a family of languages, wholly distinct from Indo-European, spoken mostly in southern India and Sri Lanka | 73 | |
| 7242775663 | Harappa | a village in Pakistan: site of successive cities of the Indus valley civilization. | 74 | |
| 7242778123 | Mohenjo-Daro | an archaeological site in Pakistan, near the Indus River: six successive ancient cities were built here. | 75 | |
| 7242778404 | Chavin civilization | The Chavín culture is an extinct, prehistoric civilization, named for Chavín de Huantar, the principal archaeological site at which its artifacts have been found. | 76 | |
| 7242779005 | Olmec | of or designating a Mesoamerican civilization, c1000-400 b.c. | 77 | |
| 7242779006 | Easter Island | an island in the S Pacific, W of and belonging to Chile. | 78 | |
| 7242779494 | aboriginals | original or earliest known; native; indigenous | 79 | |
| 7242779646 | Hammurabi | 18th century b.c. or earlier, king of Babylonia. | 80 | |
| 7242780144 | King Menes | Menes was a pharaoh of the Early Dynastic Period of ancient Egypt credited by classical tradition with having united Upper and Lower Egypt and as the founder of the First Dynasty | 81 | |
| 7242780145 | pharaoh | a title of an ancient Egyptian king. | 82 | |
| 7242780594 | Akhenaton | Akhenaten, known before the fifth year of his reign as Amenhotep IV, was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty who ruled for 17 years and died perhaps in 1336 BC or 1334 BC. | 83 | |
| 7242781112 | Ramses the Great | Ramesses II, also known as Ramesses the Great, was the third pharaoh of the Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt. He often is regarded as the greatest, most celebrated, and most powerful pharaoh of the Egyptian Empire. | 84 | |
| 7242781113 | Xia Dynasty | The Xia dynasty is the first dynasty in traditional Chinese history. It is described in ancient historical chronicles such as the Bamboo Annals, the Classic of History and the Records of the Grand Historian. | 85 | |
| 7242781563 | Shang Dynasty | The Shang dynasty or Yin dynasty, according to traditional historiography, ruled in the Yellow River valley in the second millennium BC, succeeding the Xia dynasty and followed by the Zhou dynasty. | 86 | |
| 7242781945 | Mandate of Heaven | The Zhou created the Mandate of Heaven: the idea that there could be only one legitimate ruler of China at a time, and that this ruler had the blessing of the gods | 87 | |
| 7242782006 | Zhou Dynasty | The Zhou Dynasty (1046-256 BCE) was the longest-lasting of China's dynasties. It followed the Shang Dynasty and it finished when the army of the state of Qin captured the city of Chengzhou in 256 BCE. | 88 |
