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| 293730685 | Paleolithic | most of the 2 million years during which our species has existed; typified by use of crude stone/stick tools and hunting and gathering for subsistence | 0 | |
| 293730686 | Mesolithic Age | imrovement in tool and weapon making; domestication of animals (cows, pigs, sheep, goats); advances in sailing and fishing. 10,000 B.C. | 1 | |
| 293730687 | Neolithic revolution | when humans went from being nomad/hunter gatherers to settling in one place and farming | 2 | |
| 293730688 | Prehistoric | before written history | 3 | |
| 293730689 | Metalworking | the activity of making things out of metal in a skillful manner | 4 | |
| 293730690 | civilization | a society in an advanced state of social development (e.g., with complex legal and political and religious organizations) | 5 | |
| 293730691 | Catal Huyuk | one of the world's first cities in modern Turkey | 6 | |
| 293730692 | River Valley Civilization | mesopotamia also called the fertile crescent | 7 | |
| 293730693 | Tigris Euphrates Civilization | The first civilization, developed absolutely from scratch- with no examples from any other place to imitate. | 8 | |
| 293730694 | Sumerians | the earliest known civlization; were the first to have a language and are responsible for the creation of irrigation technology, cunieform, and religious conceptions. | 9 | |
| 293730695 | Egyptian civilization | formed by 3000 BCE along the Nile River; influenced by Mesopotamia's trade and technology; had a pharaoh and stayed a unified state for most of its history | 10 | |
| 293730696 | Indus River Valley Civilizations | the earliest South Asian civilizations which emerged around 2600 B.C.E., in present-day Pakistan, and flourished for about 700 years | 11 | |
| 293730697 | Chinese River Valley civilizations | Hwang River developed in isolation. Organized state, regulated irrigation in a flood prone river valley. Advance technology and intellectual life. | 12 | |
| 293730698 | Shang Dynasty | Second Chinese dynasty (about 1750-1122 B.C.) which was mostly a farming society ruled by an aristocracy mostly concerned with war. They're best remembered for their art of bronze casting. | 13 | |
| 293730699 | Zhou Dynasty | the imperial dynasty of China from 1122 to 221 BC; notable for the rise of Confucianism and Daoism... replaced Shang Dynasty | 14 | |
| 293730700 | Qin Dynasty | (221-207 BCE) first centralized dynasty of China that used Legalism as its base of belief. replaced Zhou | 15 | |
| 293730701 | Shi Huangdi | founder of the Qin dynasty and China's first emperor | 16 | |
| 293730702 | Han Dynasty | imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 replaced Qin and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy | 17 | |
| 293730703 | Wu Ti | Best Known Han Emperor and he greatly enlarged the Han Dynasty to Central Asia. | 18 | |
| 293730704 | Mandarin | a high public official of imperial China | 19 | |
| 293730705 | Confucius | Chinese philosopher (circa 551-478 BC) | 20 | |
| 293730706 | Legalism | Chinese philosophy ; taught that humans are naturally evil and therefore need to be ruled by harsh laws | 21 | |
| 293730707 | Daoism | Chinese philosophy which founded by Laozi. emphasizes living in harmony with nature | 22 |
