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10510534361Paleolithic EraCalled 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
10510534639Neolithic RevolutionThe 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
10510535698PastrialismNomadic groups that herd domesticated animals2
10510535699PatriarchyA 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
10510539896AnimismAnimism is the religious belief that objects, places and creatures all possess a distinct spiritual essence4
10510539897TributePayment made periodically by one state or ruler to another, especially as a sign of dependence.5
10510540482Slash and BurnA farming method involving the cutting of trees, then burning them to provide ash-enriched soil for the planting of crops6
10510541109DeforestationDeforestation, clearance, or clearing is the removal of a forest or stand of trees where the land is thereafter converted to a non-forest use7
10510541440Specialization of LaborFocusing work effort on a particular product or a single task8
10510542130DesertificationDegradation of land, especially in semiarid areas, primarily because of human actions like excessive crop planting, animal grazing, and tree cutting.9
10510542467DiasporaThe dispersion of the Jews beyond Israel.10
10510542468CaravanGroup of traveling merchants and animals11
10510543472QuetzalcoatlThe feathered serpent god of the Aztec and Toltec cultures.12
10510544930Lateen SailPeople on the Mediterranean sea used a triangular sail on a long yard at an angle of 45° to the mast.13
10510547116TheocracyA government based on a divine authority. A government controlled by religous leaders.14
10510547117HunsA 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
10510547698AristocracyA government in which power is in the hands of a hereditary ruling class or nobility.16
10510548921Dhow ShipsShip of small to moderate size used in the western Indian Ocean, traditionally with a triangular sail and a sewn timber hull.17
10510548922AristianA person skilled in an applied art; a craftsperson. An artist person18
10510549310Qanat SystemIs an ancient system of underground tunnels that supply mountain water to dry lower places in the Middle East.19
10510551286DynastyA sequence of rulers from the same family.20
10510551689Hellenistic EraThe 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
10510551690Pax RomanRoman 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
10510552660PolisAn 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
10510552661StoicismA 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
1051055359412 TablesThe 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 law25
10510553595CorveeIs 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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