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| 271532931 | Paleolithic Age | 1.Old Stone Age 2.Lasted until 14,000 years ago | 1 | |
| 271532932 | Neolithic Revolution | 1. Development of agricultural societies 2. Began in Middle East around 10,000 BCE | 2 | |
| 271532933 | The Neolithic Revolution allowed... | 1. People to settle more permanently in one spot 2. Increased levels of specialization 3. Increased population | 3 | |
| 271532934 | Hunter-gatherers resisted this as long as possible... | Neolithic Revolution | 4 | |
| 271532935 | Civilization | Characterized by cities, monuments, writing, and formal states | 5 | |
| 271532936 | The first civilizations | River-valley civilizations | 6 | |
| 271532937 | Where the earliest civilizations began | Middle East | 7 | |
| 271532938 | Tigris-Euphrates Civilization | Developed among the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in Mesopotamia; started from scratch | 8 | |
| 271532939 | Sumerians | Influenced the people of Tigris-Euphrates; develped cuneiform; polytheistic | 9 | |
| 271532940 | Cuneiform | The first known human writing | 10 | |
| 271532941 | Polytheistic | Many gods in aspects of nature | 11 | |
| 271532942 | Babylonians | Developed Hammurabi's law code | 12 | |
| 271532943 | Egyptian Civilization | Along Nile River; built massive pyramids to be used as tombs (requiring slave labor); featured durable and centralized institutions | 13 | |
| 271532944 | Indian Civilization | Along Indus River; developed distinct alphabet and artistic forms | 14 | |
| 271532945 | Chinese Civilization | Formed along the Huang (Yellow) River; isolated; had advanced technology and intellectual life | 15 | |
| 271532946 | Developments of early civilizations | The wheel, alphabets, mathematics, divisions of time | 16 | |
| 271532947 | Four centers of civilization | Middle East, Egypt, China, India | 17 |
