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| 4827252366 | culture | Beliefs, customs, and traditions of a specific group of people. |  | 0 |
| 4827252368 | Stone Age | (subdivided into Paleolithic—a span beginning more than a million years ago in which several Homo species used crude rock tools; Mesolithic—about 12000 to 7000 years ago; Neolithic—7000 to about 5500); the Bronze Age (5500 to 3200 years ago); and the Iron Age (starting about 3200 years ago). | 1 | |
| 4827252369 | Paleolithic | (750,000 BCE - 10,000 B.C.E.) Old Stone Age. A period of time in human history characterized by the use of stone tools and the use of hunting and gathering as a food source. (and use of fire) |  | 2 |
| 4827252370 | Neolithic | The period of the Stone Age associated with the ancient Agricultural Revolution. It follows the Paleolithic period. |  | 3 |
| 4827252372 | Agricultural Revolution | Resulted not only in a more reliable food source, but also in a shifting of dependancy and power to males over females, the claiming and defending of land, and the establishment of the first political and religious institutions. The time when human beings first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering |  | 4 |
| 4827252374 | Sumerians | 2900 B.C.E.- First known civilization, who dominated Southern Mesopotamia, which lay in the river valley of the Tigris and Euphrates, through the end of the 3rd Millennium BCE. Responsible for the creation of irrigation technology, cunieform writing, mathematics, law, and religious conceptions. People who migrated into Mesopotamia c. 4000 BCE; created first civilization within region; organized area into city-states. |  | 5 |
| 4827252376 | City- state | A city and its surrounding lands functioning as an independent political unit |  | 6 |
| 4827252378 | Hammurabi | Amorite ruler of Babylon (r. 1792-1750 B.C.E.). He conquered many city-states in southern and northern Mesopotamia and is best known for a code of laws, inscribed on a black stone pillar, illustrating the principles to be used in legal cases. |  | 7 |
| 4827252380 | Ziggurat | massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mudbricks. It is associated with religious complexes in ancient Mesopotamian cities, but its function is unknown. |  | 8 |
| 4827252382 | Cuneiform | A system of writing in which wedge-shaped symbols represented words or syllables. It originated in Mesopotamia and was used initially for Sumerian and Akkadian but later was adapted to represent other languages of western Asia. |  | 9 |
| 4827252384 | Pharaoh | A king of ancient Egypt, considered a god as well as a political and military leader. |  | 10 |
| 4827252386 | Pyramid | Huge, triangular shaped burial tombs of Egyptian pharaohs built during the Old Kingdom |  | 11 |
| 4827252388 | Hieroglyphics | System of writing in which pictorial symbols represented sounds, syllables, or concepts. Used for official and monumental inscriptions in ancient Egypt. |  | 12 |
| 4827252393 | Mohenjo-Daro | Largest city of the Indus Valley civilization. It was centrally located in the extensive floodplain of the Indus River. Little is known about the political institutions of Indus Valley communities, but the large-scale implies central planning. |  | 13 |
