vocabulary
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| 198825975 | Cultural Diffusion | The spreading of ideas or products from one culture to another. | 1 | |
| 198825976 | Demography | The statistical study of human populations. | 2 | |
| 198825977 | Intervening Obstacles | Event or factor that discourages people from migrating. | 3 | |
| 198825978 | Neolithic Revolution | The New Stone Age in which animal domestication and agriculture originated. | 4 | |
| 198825979 | Polytheism | The belief or worship of more than one god. | 5 | |
| 198825980 | Specialization of Labor | The breakdown of jobs into narrow and repetitive tasks. | 6 | |
| 198825981 | Cuneiform | A system of writing in which wedge-shaped symbols represented words or syllables. | 7 | |
| 198825982 | Mohenjo-Daro | An ancient Indus Valley Civilization that flourished between 2600 and 1900 B.C.E. | 8 | |
| 198825983 | Hittites | The Bronze Age people from central Anatolia. | 9 | |
| 198825984 | Division of Labor | A production process in which a worker or group of workers is assigned a specialized task in order to increase efficiency. | 10 | |
| 198825985 | Independent Invention | An invention made by an inventor on their own. | 11 | |
| 198825986 | Migrations | To move from one country, place, or locality to another. | 12 | |
| 198825987 | Push Factor | A force that acts to drive people away from a place. | 13 | |
| 198825988 | Sumerians | The people who dominated southern Mesopotamia through the end of the millenium. | 14 | |
| 198825989 | City-State | A small independent state consisting of an urban center and the surrounding agricultural territory. | 15 | |
| 198825990 | Pharoah | The central figure in the ancient Egyptian state. | 16 | |
| 198825991 | Aryans | The northern nomadic Indians that came from the Russian steppes. | 17 | |
| 198825992 | Mandate of Heaven | Chinese religious and political ideology developed by the Zhou. | 18 | |
| 198825993 | Horticulture | The science and art of growing fruits, vegetables, flowers, or ornamental plants. | 19 | |
| 198825994 | Marker Events | An event in history that changes the world. | 20 | |
| 198825995 | Periodization | The division of history into periods. | 21 | |
| 198825996 | Pull Factor | A force that draws people to a new location. | 22 | |
| 198825997 | Hammurabi | The first king of the Babylonian empire. | 23 | |
| 198825998 | Ziggurat | A massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mud bricks. | 24 | |
| 198825999 | Hieroglyphics | A system of writing in which pictorial symbols represented sounds, syllables, or concepts. | 25 | |
| 198826000 | Dravidians | Southern Indians that were driven farther south by the Aryans. | 26 | |
| 198826001 | Monsoon | Seasonal winds in the Indian Ocean caused by the differences in temperature between the rapidly heating and cooling landmasses and the slow changing ocean waters. | 27 |
