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| 4935718496 | history | The study of past events and changes in the development, transmission, and transformation of cultural practices. | 0 | |
| 4935718497 | 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 | |
| 4935718500 | Forager | People who support themselves by hunting wild animals and gathering wild edible plants and insects. | 2 | |
| 4935718501 | 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 |  | 3 |
| 4935718504 | Semitic | Family of related languages long spoken across parts of western Asia and northern Africa. In antiquity these languages include Hebrew, Aramaic, and Phoenician. The most widespread modern member of the Semitic family is Arabic. | 4 | |
| 4935718505 | City- state | A city and its surrounding lands functioning as an independent political unit |  | 5 |
| 4935718506 | Babylon | 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. (p. 29) |  | 6 |
| 4935718509 | Ziggurat | massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mudbricks. It is associated with religious complexes in ancient Mesopotamian cities, but its function is unknown. |  | 7 |
| 4935718511 | 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. |  | 8 |
| 4935718514 | Ma'at | the Egyptian concept of truth, justice, and cosmic order, represented by a goddess, often portrayed with a feather upon her head |  | 9 |
| 4935718516 | Thebes | Capital city of Egypt and home of the ruling dynasties during the Middle and New Kingdoms. Amon, patron deity of Thebes, became one of the chief gods of Egypt. Monarchs were buried across the river in the Valley of the Kings. (p. 43) | 10 | |
| 4935718517 | Hieroglyphics | System of writing in which pictorial symbols represented sounds, syllables, or concepts. Used for official and monumental inscriptions in ancient Egypt. |  | 11 |
| 4935718518 | Memphis | The capital of Old Kingdom Egypt, near the head of the Nile Delta. Early rulers were interred in the nearby pyramids. |  | 12 |
| 4935718519 | Papyrus | 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. |  | 13 |
| 4935718522 | 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. |  | 14 |
