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| 84062814 | Paleolithic Age | the Old Stone Age ending in 12,000 BCE; typified by use; of crude stone tools and hunting and gathering for subsistence | 0 | |
| 84062815 | Homo sapiens | the humanoid species that emerged as most successful at the end of the Paleolithic period | 1 | |
| 84062816 | Neolithic Age | the New Stone Age between 8000 and 5000 BCE; period in which adaptation of sedentary agriculture occurred | 2 | |
| 84062817 | Neolithic Revolution | the succession of technological innovations and changes in human organization that led to the development of agriculture | 3 | |
| 84062818 | Hunting and Gathering | old system of hunting and gathering food | 4 | |
| 84062819 | Bronze Age | from about 4000 BCE when bronze tools were first introduced in the Middle East, to about 1500 BCE when iron replaced it | 5 | |
| 84062820 | Slash and Burn Agriculture | a system of cultivation typical of shifting cultivators | 6 | |
| 84062821 | Catal Hüyük | early urban culture based on sedentary agriculture; located in modern Southern Turkey; was larger in pop. than Jericho, had greater degree of social stratification | 7 | |
| 84062822 | Civilization | societies distinguished by reliance on sedentary agriculture, ability to produce food surpluses, and existence of nonfarming elites | 8 | |
| 84062823 | Cuneiform | a form of writing developed by the Sumerians using a wedge-shaped stylus and clay tablets | 9 | |
| 84062824 | Nomads | cattle and sheep-herding societies normally found on the fringes of civilized societies | 10 | |
| 84062825 | Mesopotamia | literally "between the rivers"; the civilizations that arose in the alluvial plain of the Tigris and Euphrates river valleys | 11 | |
| 84062826 | Sumerians | people who migrated into Mesopotamia c.4000 BCE; created first civilization within region; organized area into city-states | 12 | |
| 84062827 | City-States | a form of political organization typical of Mesopotamian civilizations; consisted of agricultural hinterlands ruled by an urbanbased king | 13 | |
| 84062828 | Babylonians | (empire) unified all of Mesopotamia c.1800 BCE; collapsed due to foreign invasion c.1600 BCE | 14 | |
| 84062829 | Hammurabi | the most important ruler of the Babylonian empire; responsible for codification of law | 15 | |
| 84062830 | Pharaoh | king of Egypt who possessed immense power | 16 | |
| 84062831 | Pyramids | monumental architechture typical of Old Kingdom Egypt; used as burial sites for pharaohs | 17 | |
| 84062832 | Kush | an Afrcan state that developed along the upper reaches of the Nile c.1000 BCE; conquered Egypt and ruled it for several centuries | 18 | |
| 84062833 | Indus Rver | (valley) river sources in Himalayas to mouth in Arabian Sea; location of Harappan civilization | 19 | |
| 84062834 | Harappa | along with Mohenjodaro, major urban complex of the Harappan civilization; laid out on planned grid pattern | 20 | |
| 84062835 | Huanghe (Yellow River) | site of development of sedentary agriculture in China | 21 | |
| 84062836 | Ideographs | pictographic characters grouped together to create new concepts; typical of Chinese writing | 22 | |
| 84062837 | Shang | first Chinese dynasty for which archeological evidence exists; capital located in Ordos bulge of the Huanghe; flourished from 1600 to 1046 | 23 | |
| 84062838 | Phoenicians | seafaring civilization located on the shores of the eastern Meditteranean; established colonies throughout the Mediterranean | 24 | |
| 84062839 | Mandate of Heaven | political concept that remained a key justification for Chinese imperial rule from the Zhou onward | 25 | |
| 84062840 | Monotheism | the exclusive worship of a single god; introduced by the Jews into Western civilization | 26 |
