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| 13445652335 | civilization | a complex society with cities, a central government, job specialization, and social classes | 0 | |
| 13445652336 | culture | the enduring behaviors, ideas, attitudes, values, and traditions shared by a group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next | 1 | |
| 13445652337 | paleolithic era | called the old stone age (from 10,000 to 2.5 million years ago); concerned with food supply; they used stone as well as bone tools; nomadic hunters and gatherers. | 2 | |
| 13445655179 | neolithic revolution | (10,000 - 8,000 BCE) The development of agriculture and the domestication of animals as a food source; led to the development of permanent settlements and the start of civilization. | 3 | |
| 13445655180 | sumer | world's first civilization, founded in Mesopotamia, which existed for over 3,000 years. | 4 | |
| 13445655181 | city-state | a city with political and economic control over the surrounding countryside | 5 | |
| 13445657931 | Hammurabi | Babylonian king who codified the laws of Sumer and Mesopotamia (died 1750 BC) | 6 | |
| 13445657932 | Babylon | the chief city of ancient Mesopotamia and capitol of the ancient kingdom of Babylonia | 7 | |
| 13445657933 | ziggurat | a rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians |  | 8 |
| 13445659862 | cuneiform | a form of writing developed by the Sumerians using a wedge-shaped stylus and clay tablets. |  | 9 |
| 13445659863 | pharaoh | a king of ancient Egypt, considered a god as well as a political and military leader. | 10 | |
| 13445659864 | papyrus | a long-lasting, paper-like material made from reeds | 11 | |
| 13445663078 | Harappa/Mohenjo-Daro | one of the earliest advanced civilizations in history, located in present day Pakistan (Indus River Valley) | 12 | |
| 13445663079 | ideology | a system of social or political ideas | 13 | |
| 13445663080 | Cyrus the Great | king of Persia and founder of the Persian empire (circa 600-529 BC) | 14 | |
| 13446807590 | Royal Road | a road for the government use built by the ancient Persian ruler Darius which helped unite the empire | 15 | |
| 13456445122 | mandate of heaven | a political theory of ancient China in which those in power were given the right to rule from a divine source | 16 | |
| 13456445123 | nomads | people who move from place to place | 17 | |
| 13456445124 | Hittites | people from central Anatolia who established an empire in Anatolia and Syria in the Late Bronze Age; wealthy from the trade in metals and military power based on chariot forces | 18 | |
| 13456447563 | Hatshepsut | first female pharaoh who expanded Egypt through trade | 19 | |
| 13456449756 | Akhenaten | early ruler of Egypt who rejected the old gods and replaced them with Aten, the sun god. | 20 | |
| 13456449757 | Ramses II | king of Egypt between 1304 and 1237 BC who built many monuments | 21 | |
| 13456453188 | Ashurbanipal | Assyrian king who gathered writing tablets from many lands | 22 | |
| 13456453189 | Israel | an ancient kingdom of the Hebrew tribes at the southeastern end of the Mediterranean Sea | 23 | |
| 13456453190 | Hebrew Bible | a collection of sacred books containing diverse materials concerning the origins, experiences, beliefs, and practices of the early Hebrew people. Most of the text was compiled by members of the priestly class in the fifth century B.C.E. | 24 | |
| 13456455599 | Phoenicians | located on eastern Mediterranean coast; invented the alphabet which used sounds rather than symbols | 25 | |
| 13456455600 | Polynesian | inhabitants of the Pacific Islands that lie within a triangle formed by Hawaii, New Zealand and Easter Island | 26 | |
| 13456456898 | micro societies | small-scale communities that had little interaction with others. These communities were the norm for peoples living in the Americas and islanders in the Pacific and Aegean from 2000 to 1200 BCE. | 27 |
