193828046 | Civilization | an advanced state of human society, in which a high level of culture, science, industry, and government has been reached. | 0 | |
193828047 | culture | the quality in a person or society that arises from a concern for what is regarded as excellent in arts, letters, manners, scholarly pursuits, etc. | 1 | |
193828048 | hirtory | a continuous, systematic narrative of past events as relating to a particular people, country, period, person, etc., usually written as a chronological account. | 2 | |
193828049 | stone age | the period in the history of humankind, preceding the Bronze Age and the Iron Age, and marked by the use of stone implements and weapons: subdivided into the Paleolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic periods. | 3 | |
193828050 | paleolithic | ( sometimes lowercase ) Anthropology . of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the cultures of the late Pliocene and the Pleistocene epochs, or early phase of the Stone Age. | 4 | |
193828051 | neolithic | the cultural period that lasted in SW Asia from about 9000 to 6000 bc and in Europe from about 4000 to 2400 bc and was characterized by primitive crop growing and stock rearing and the use of polished stone and flint tools and weapons. | 5 | |
193828052 | foragers | people who support themselves by hunting wild animals and gathering wild edible plants and insects | 6 | |
193828053 | agricultural revolution | The time when human beings first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering | 7 | |
193828054 | holocene | The current interglaciation period, extending from 10,000 years ago to the present on the geologic time scale. | 8 | |
193828055 | megalith | memorial consisting of a very large stone forming part of a prehistoric structure (especially in western Europe) | 9 | |
193828056 | babylon | an ancient city of SW Asia, on the Euphrates River, famed for its magnificence and culture: capital of Babylonia and later of the Chaldean empire. | 10 | |
193828057 | sumerians | People who dominated Southern Mesopotamia through the end of the 3rd Millennium BCE. Responsible for the creation of irrigation technology, cunieform, and religious conceptions. | 11 | |
193828058 | semitic | a major branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family. | 12 | |
193828059 | City-state | a city with political and economic control over the surrounding countryside | 13 | |
193828060 | Hammurabi | Babylonian king who codified the laws of Sumer and Mesopotamia (died 1750 BC) | 14 | |
193828061 | scribe | a person who serves as a professional copyist, especially one who made copies of manuscripts before the invention of printing. | 15 | |
193828062 | Ziggurat | a temple of Sumerian origin in the form of a pyramidal tower, consisting of a number of stories and having about the outside a broad ascent winding round the structure, presenting the appearance of a series of terraces. | 16 | |
193828063 | Amulet | a small object worn to ward off evil, harm, or illness or to bring good fortune; protecting charm. | 17 | |
193828064 | Cuneiform | an ancient wedge-shaped script used in Mesopotamia and Persia | 18 | |
193828065 | Pharaoh | the title of the ancient Egyptian kings | 19 | |
193828066 | Ma'at | the Egyptian concept of truth, justice, and cosmic order, represented by a goddess, often portrayed with a feather upon her head | 20 | |
193828067 | Pyramid | a massive memorial with a square base and four triangular sides | 21 | |
193828068 | Memphis | an ancient city of Egypt on the Nile (south of Cairo) | 22 | |
193828069 | Thebes | an ancient Greek city in Boeotia destroyed by Alexander the Great in 336 BC | 23 | |
193828070 | Hieroglyphics | an ancient Egyptian writing system in which pictures were used to represent ideas and sounds | 24 | |
193828071 | Papyrus | tall sedge of the Nile valley yielding fiber that served many purposes in historic times | 25 | |
193828072 | Mummy | a body embalmed and dried and wrapped for burial (as in ancient Egypt) | 26 | |
193828073 | Harappa | Site of one of the great cities of the Indus Valley civilization of the third millennium B.C.E. It was located on the northwest frontier of the zone of cultivation , and may have been a center for the acquisition of raw materials. (p. 48) | 27 | |
193828074 | Mohenjo-Daro | Indus Valley city laid out in a grid pattern. Had a complex irrigation and sewer system. | 28 |
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