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| 7086513158 | Paleolithic Period | A period of time that began 2.5 million years ago and ended about 10,000 years ago. Also referred to as the Stone Age. |  | 0 |
| 7086513159 | Neolithic Revolution | A set of dramatic changes in how people lived based on the development of agriculture. |  | 1 |
| 7086513649 | monotheism | Religious group that worships one deity. |  | 2 |
| 7086513650 | Bronze Age | The creation or Bronze sparked the age, which began at different times and different places between 3300 and 2300 B.C.E. |  | 3 |
| 7086514611 | Specialization of labor | People to focus on limited tasks |  | 4 |
| 7086514612 | hunter-forager | People who survive by hunting animals and foraging for seeds, nuts, and edible roots. |  | 5 |
| 7086516392 | Nomadic pastoralism | The moving of animals herd from pasture to pasture. |  | 6 |
| 7086516393 | patriarchal | Dominated by men. |  | 7 |
| 7086518052 | artisans | People who made objects that others needed |  | 8 |
| 7086518626 | merchants | People who buy and sell goods for a living. |  | 9 |
| 7086518627 | Social stratification | People accumulated wealth |  | 10 |
| 7086518864 | Kinship group | Several related families that migrated together in search of food. |  | 11 |
| 7086520473 | clan | A group of multiple Kinship groups. |  | 12 |
| 7086520474 | tribe | Combination of multiple clans, used for group hunting or mutual defense from enemies. |  | 13 |
| 7086521045 | artifacts | Objects made by people in the past. |  | 14 |
| 7086520770 | Homo sapiens sapiens | Modern day humans. |  | 15 |
| 7086523665 | textiles | items made of cloth. |  | 16 |
| 7086525306 | Jericho | One of the World's first cities, created on the banks of the Jordan |  | 17 |
| 7086525307 | Catal Huyuk | Ancient city in present day turkey |  | 18 |
| 7086523666 | Overfarming | land's lose of fertility caused by to much farming. |  | 19 |
| 7086545786 | Overgrazing | continual eating of grasses or their roots, without allowing them to regrow. |  | 20 |
| 7086969902 | desertification | The creation of desert like conditions. |  | 21 |
| 7086970667 | environmental degradation | a deterioration of the enviroemnt |  | 22 |
| 7086969903 | deforestation | the clearing of forests |  | 23 |
| 7086969904 | loess | type of fertile soil that is yellow in color |  | 24 |
| 7086973027 | division of labor | the assignment of different parts of a manufacturing process |  | 25 |
| 7086975835 | barter | a system by which one thing is exchanged for another. |  | 26 |
| 7086973028 | polytheistic | Worshiping many gods |  | 27 |
| 7086973029 | ziggurats | large stepped pyramids |  | 28 |
| 7086976558 | theocrats | rulers holding both religious and political power |  | 29 |
| 7086977222 | Golden Age | a period in society of relative peace, prosperity, and innovation. |  | 30 |
| 7086976559 | ancestor veneration | belief that the spirits of their ancestors could speak to the gods for them |  | 31 |
| 7086976560 | cuneiform | marks carved on wet clay tablets |  | 32 |
| 7086982526 | Indo-European | relating to the family of languages spoken over the greater part of Europe and Asia as far as northern India |  | 33 |
| 7086978701 | papyrus | type of plants that grew along the Nile River, used to make paper |  | 34 |
| 7086978702 | alphabetic script | a system of symbols that represent the sounds of speech |  | 35 |
| 7086979219 | Sanskrit | The Aryan's sacred language |  | 36 |
| 7086979673 | feudalism | the dominant social system |  | 37 |
| 7086980167 | Mandate of Heaven | idea that a just ruler's power was bestowed by the gods. |  | 38 |
| 7086981938 | Empire | a large territory that included diverse cultural groups |  | 39 |
| 7086980492 | city-states | city with land, with its own individual government |  | 40 |
| 7093456206 | Royal Road | road that spanned around 1,500 miles across the Persian empire. |  | 41 |
| 7093456207 | syncretic | combining ideas from different sources |  | 42 |
| 7093456208 | aristocracy | form of government; noble rule |  | 43 |
| 7093456511 | direct democracy | form of government; all citizens could vote directly on laws |  | 44 |
| 7093456512 | hoplites | infantry members |  | 45 |
| 7093456901 | aristocrats | member of aristocracy |  | 46 |
| 7093457472 | Socratic Method | asking questions to systematically clarify another person's ideas and to identify the core of them. |  | 47 |
| 7093457473 | Zoroastrianism | a faith based on the belief in one god, created by the Persian prophet Zarathustra |  | 48 |
| 7093457474 | oligarchy | form of government; a few wealthy land owners and merchants ruler |  | 49 |
| 7093458913 | representative democracy | form of government; citizens elect leaders to represent them and give those leaders to make laws and govern. |  | 50 |
| 7093458914 | archons | The nine chief magistrates of Athens |  | 51 |
| 7093459708 | merchants | a person involved in wholesale trade | | 52 |
| 7093461179 | Golden Mean | Aristotle's emphasis on moderation |  | 53 |
| 7093461180 | qanat | undergrounds canals |  | 54 |
| 7093461181 | tyrants | leaders who seized power with the people's power |  | 55 |
| 7093463223 | Persian Wars | conquered Greek colonies rebelled in campaigns |  | 56 |
| 7093463224 | helots | slaves |  | 57 |
| 7093465590 | caravanserai | combination of inns and markets along the Royal Road |  | 58 |
| 7093467057 | empiricism | trusting what one learned from observation and evidence of the senses, rather than emphasizing intuition or religious beliefs |  | 59 |
| 7093467058 | monarchies | form of government; a king rules |  | 60 |
| 7093467059 | democracy | form of government; all citizens participate in government |  | 61 |
| 7093467545 | Hellenistic Period | meaning the the period of the Greeks |  | 62 |
| 7093467546 | satraps | ruler of a province who was responsible to the emperor |  | 63 |
| 7093467552 | Common currency | when a country or multiple countries to peg their exchange rates in order to keep the value of the currency |  | 64 |
| 7093468703 | tribute | An act or gift, intended to show gratitude or respect |  | 65 |
| 7093468704 | hieroglyphics | writing consisting of hieroglyphs, pictures/markings |  | 66 |
| 7093469437 | Caracol | an observatory in Chichen Itza |  | 67 |
| 7093469438 | Teotihuacan | city founded around 150 B.C.E., birth place of the gods. |  | 68 |
| 7093471047 | ayllus | small communities based on the idea of communal work |  | 69 |
| 7093471048 | Classic Period | height of the Mayan civilization, 250 and 900 C.E. |  | 70 |
| 7093471049 | Chichen Itza | a city |  | 71 |
| 7093471050 | Olmec | Foundational civilization that influenced the mayans and aztecs. |  | 72 |
| 7093473671 | Mesoamerica | early civilizations in the Americas |  | 73 |
| 7093473672 | Obsidian | hard glass-like rock |  | 74 |
| 7093473673 | Mayan | A civilization based on the Olmecs |  | 75 |
| 7093474039 | Huaca del Sol | Temple of the Sun, stepped pyramid. |  | 76 |
| 7093476456 | mother civilization | earlier civilizations that influenced later ones;Olmecs |  | 77 |
| 7093476457 | Slash-and-burn agriculture | the creation of fields by cutting down vegetation then burning it |  | 78 |
| 7093477173 | Maya | people of the Mayan culture |  | 79 |
| 7093477970 | Huaca del Luna | Temple of the Moon, terraced platform |  | 80 |
| 7093478743 | Moche | one of the most siginifiagant civilization in the Andes. |  | 81 |
