10510534361 | Paleolithic Era | Called Old Stone Age, it was a period of ancient culture where people started to develop chipped stone tools. Paleolithic Period, also called Old Stone Age, ancient cultural stage, or level, of human development, characterized by the use of rudimentary chipped stone tools. (See also Stone Age.) | 0 | |
10510534639 | Neolithic Revolution | The Neolithic Revolution, Neolithic Demographic Transition, Agricultural Revolution, or First Agricultural Revolution, was the wide-scale transition of many human cultures during the Neolithic period. | 1 | |
10510535698 | Pastrialism | Nomadic groups that herd domesticated animals | 2 | |
10510535699 | Patriarchy | A system of society or government in which the father or eldest male is head of the family and descent is traced through the male line. | 3 | |
10510539896 | Animism | Animism is the religious belief that objects, places and creatures all possess a distinct spiritual essence | 4 | |
10510539897 | Tribute | Payment made periodically by one state or ruler to another, especially as a sign of dependence. | 5 | |
10510540482 | Slash and Burn | A farming method involving the cutting of trees, then burning them to provide ash-enriched soil for the planting of crops | 6 | |
10510541109 | Deforestation | Deforestation, clearance, or clearing is the removal of a forest or stand of trees where the land is thereafter converted to a non-forest use | 7 | |
10510541440 | Specialization of Labor | Focusing work effort on a particular product or a single task | 8 | |
10510542130 | Desertification | Degradation of land, especially in semiarid areas, primarily because of human actions like excessive crop planting, animal grazing, and tree cutting. | 9 | |
10510542467 | Diaspora | The dispersion of the Jews beyond Israel. | 10 | |
10510542468 | Caravan | Group of traveling merchants and animals | 11 | |
10510543472 | Quetzalcoatl | The feathered serpent god of the Aztec and Toltec cultures. | 12 | |
10510544930 | Lateen Sail | People on the Mediterranean sea used a triangular sail on a long yard at an angle of 45° to the mast. | 13 | |
10510547116 | Theocracy | A government based on a divine authority. A government controlled by religous leaders. | 14 | |
10510547117 | Huns | A member of a nomadic and warlike Asian people who devastated or controlled large parts of eastern and central Europe and who exercised their greatest power under Attila in the 5th century. | 15 | |
10510547698 | Aristocracy | A government in which power is in the hands of a hereditary ruling class or nobility. | 16 | |
10510548921 | Dhow Ships | Ship of small to moderate size used in the western Indian Ocean, traditionally with a triangular sail and a sewn timber hull. | 17 | |
10510548922 | Aristian | A person skilled in an applied art; a craftsperson. An artist person | 18 | |
10510549310 | Qanat System | Is an ancient system of underground tunnels that supply mountain water to dry lower places in the Middle East. | 19 | |
10510551286 | Dynasty | A sequence of rulers from the same family. | 20 | |
10510551689 | Hellenistic Era | The era after the death of Alexander the Great when Greek culture spread into the Near East and blended with the culture of that region. | 21 | |
10510551690 | Pax Roman | Roman Peace. the stability and prosperity that Roman rule brought to the Mediterranean world and much of western Europe during the first and second centuries. | 22 | |
10510552660 | Polis | An ancient Greek city state encompassing both an urban area and its surrounding countryside; a small but autonomous political unit where all major political and social activities were carried out in a central location. | 23 | |
10510552661 | Stoicism | A philosophy founded by Zeno in the fourth century BCE that taught that happiness could be obtained by accepting one's lot and loving in harmony with will of God, there by achieving inner peace. | 24 | |
10510553594 | 12 Tables | The earliest attempt by the Romans to create a code of law. A commission of ten men (Decemviri) was appointed (c. 455 B.C.) to draw up a code of law binding on both patrician and plebeian and which consuls would have to enforce. A law created to bind poor and rich people under the same law | 25 | |
10510553595 | Corvee | Is a form of unpaid, unfree labor, which is intermittent in nature and for limited periods of time: typically only a certain number of days' work each year. | 26 |
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