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| 201422192 | civilization (p. 6) | An ambiguous term often used to denote more complex societies but sometimes used by anthropologists to describe any group of people sharing a set of cultural traits. | 0 | |
| 201422193 | culture (p. 6) | Socially transmitted patterns of action and expression. Culture also includes arts, beliefs, knowledge, and technology. | 1 | |
| 201422194 | history (p. 6) | The study of the past. | 2 | |
| 201422195 | Stone Age (p. 6) | The historical period characterized by the production of tools from stone and other nonmetallic substances. | 3 | |
| 201422196 | Paleolithic (p. 7) | The period of the Stone Age associated with the evolution of humans. It comes after the Neolithic period. | 4 | |
| 201422197 | Neolithic (p. 7) | The period of the Stone Age associated with the ancient Agricultural Revolution. It comes after the Paleolithic period. | 5 | |
| 201422198 | foragers (p. 7) | People who support themselves by hunting wild animals and gatherings wild edible plants and insects. | 6 | |
| 201422199 | Agricultural Revolutions (p. 8) | The change from food gathering to food production that occurred between ca. 8000 and 2000 B.C.E. | 7 | |
| 201422200 | Holocene (p. 11) | The geological era since the end of the Great Ice Age about 11,000 years ago. | 8 | |
| 201422201 | megaliths (p. 12) | Structures and complexes of very large stones constructed for ceremonial and religious purposes in Neolithic times. | 9 | |
| 201422202 | Babylon (p. 14) | The largest and most important city in Mesopotamia. It achieved particular eminence as the capital of the King Hammurabi in the eighteenth century B.C.E. and the Neo-Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar in the sixth century B.C.E. | 10 | |
| 201422203 | Sumerians (p.15) | The people who dominated southern Mesopotamia through the end of the third millennium B.C.E. | 11 | |
| 201422204 | Semitic (p. 15) | Family of related languages long spoken across parts of western Asia and northern Africa. In antiquity these languages included Hebrew, Aramaic, and Phoenician. | 12 | |
| 201422205 | city-state (p.16) | A small independent state consisting of an urban center and the surrounding agricultural territory. | 13 | |
| 201422206 | Hammurabi (p. 17) | Amorite ruler of Babylon (r. 1792-1750 B.C.E.). | 14 | |
| 201422207 | scribe (p. 18) | In the governments of many ancient societies, a professional position reserved for men who had undergone lengthy training required to be able to read and write using cuneiforms, hieroglyphics, or other early, cumbersome writing systems. | 15 | |
| 201422208 | ziggurat (p. 20) | A massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mud bricks. It is associated with religious complexes in ancient Mesopotamian cities, but its function is unknown. | 16 | |
| 201422209 | amulets | Small charm meant to protect the bearer from evil. | 17 | |
| 201422210 | cuneiform (p. 20) | A system of writing in which wedge-shaped symbols represented words or syllables. | 18 | |
| 201422211 | pharaoh (p. 25) | The central figure in the ancient Egyptian state. | 19 | |
| 201422212 | ma'at (p. 25) | Egyptian term for the concept of divinely created and maintained order in the universe. | 20 | |
| 201422213 | pyramid (p. 26) | A large, triangular stone monument, used in Egypt and Nubia as a burial place for the king. | 21 | |
| 201422214 | Memphis (p. 26) | The capital of Old Kingdom Egypt, near the head of the Nile Delta. | 22 | |
| 201422215 | Hieroglyphics (p. 26) | System of writing in which pictorial symbols represented sounds, syllables, or concepts. Used for official and monumental inscriptions in ancient Egypt. | 23 | |
| 201422216 | papyrus (p. 26) | A reed that grows along the banks of the Nile River in Egypt. From it was produced a coarse, paperlike writing medium used by the Egyptians and many other peoples in the ancient Mediterranean and Middle East. | 24 | |
| 201422217 | mummy (p. 29) | A body preserved by chemical processes or special natural circumstances, often in the belief that the deceased will need it again in the afterlife. | 25 | |
| 201422218 | Harappa (p. 31) | Site of one of the great cities of the Indus Valley civilization of the third millennium B.C.E. | 26 | |
| 201422219 | Mohenjo-Daro (p. 31) | Largest of the cities of the Indus Valley civilization. | 27 |
