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| 5139336459 | Maya | City states. Development of advanced math system. Elaborate calendars and writing system. Language had pictographs and symbols. Recorded astonomic events, data, and mythology. Local lords and regional kingdoms with no central authority. Sacrificed prisoners and had frequent warfare. Engineered based on agriculture. |  | 0 |
| 5139336460 | Niger Valley Civilizations | cities without states. Most important one was Jenne-Jeno. Did not have large imperial system. No evidence of social inequalities, warfare, or despotic power. Occupations created castes. Later, societies and empires emerged. |  | 1 |
| 5139336461 | Bantu | 400 closely related languages. Worshiped ancestral and nature spirits. Belief in witches. Sacrificed mainly cattle. Spread on Bantu-speaking people was south of equator. Believed in "continuous revelation" Officials chose woman to hold spirits of the ancestors because their minds were stronger than mens. Traded with Batwa. |  | 2 |
| 5139336462 | Teotihuacán | Portaits, and images of artwork show people in paradise, souls of the dead, abstract geometry, and rulers. All recordings of jewelry and pottery. Had great revenue from trade. Greatest city in the americas. Populations was big. Worshiped many gods. They sacrificed prisoners in the temple of feathered servants. Next to present day Mexico City. |  | 3 |
| 5139336463 | Mound Builders | Eastern woodlands is where the mounds were built. Hopewell people built them for elaborate burial ceremonies. Could not survive without corn. |  | 4 |
| 5139336464 | Meroë | Nile River Valley civilization. Ruled by sometimes ladies and was a monarch. Grew because of trade and was a rain-based economy. Long distance trade. Deforestation and trade with red sea caused fall of empire. All powerful sacred monarch. Wealth came from long-distance connections. |  | 5 |
| 5139336465 | Moche | Near Andean Mountains. Economy was rooted in complex irrigation system. Had warrior priest leaders. Shamans used hallucinogens. Sacrificed prisoners who were captured from war. They were sacrificed for rulers to be servants of them. Agriculture based economy. |  | 6 |
| 5139336466 | Chavin | Spread throughout trading networks and spread art, architecture, and religious images. Separation between elites and common social inequalities. |  | 7 |
| 5139336467 | Batwa | pygmy people who followed. In the land before Bantus. Hunting and gathering lifestyle, traded with bantus. |  | 8 |
| 5139336468 | Axum | Flourished in agriculture, ceremonial centers, written language, large urban centers, trade, deforestation and erosion. Chrisianity was introduced in Axum and King Ezana excepted this. Modern day Ethiopia. generated wheats. Language was Geez |  | 9 |
| 5139353745 | Piye | a Kushite ruler who recorded his great victory while conquering Egypt in a magnificent inscription that provides some hints about his personality and outlook on the world | 10 | |
| 5139374916 | Wari | Northern-empire with political integration and cultural commonality for the entire Andean region | 11 | |
| 5139374917 | Tiwankanu | Southern-empire with political integration and cultural commonality for the entire Andean region | 12 | |
| 5139377927 | Chaco phenonmenon | where 5 major Pueblos emerged and there was a rapid jump in culture | 13 | |
| 5139380154 | Pohnpei | Micronesian Island where an urban complex was constructed from stone and coral; "Venice of the Pacific" | 14 | |
| 5139380155 | Tonga | Evidence of social complexity-powerful rulers stood at the head of the royal court and performed political duties in the Polynesian Islands | 15 | |
| 5139382969 | Mana | a spiritual energy/power associated with chiefs and demonstrated by remarkable actions or great success | 16 | |
| 5139382970 | Tapu | ritual restrictions used to maintain the purity of mana | 17 | |
| 5139385310 | Yap | involved trade in commodities such as sea turtles, coconuts, and breadfruit, and had permission to fish on neighboring islands, and promise of refuge in times of famine; in western Micronesia | 18 |
