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| 112430793 | civilization | highly organized society | 0 | |
| 112430794 | radiocarbon dating | scientific technique that measures the rate of decay in organic matter | 1 | |
| 112430795 | glacier | large, slowly moving mass of snow and ice | 2 | |
| 112430796 | nomad | wanderer who travels from place to place in search of food | 3 | |
| 112430797 | history | record of events since people first developed writing | 4 | |
| 112430798 | culture | what a human group develops through living together | 5 | |
| 112430799 | anthropologist | researcher who studies the skeletal remains of early people | 6 | |
| 112430800 | artifact | material object shaped by a human being | 7 | |
| 112430801 | artisan | skilled craft worker | 8 | |
| 112430802 | irrigation | providing water by means of canals and ditches | 9 | |
| 112430803 | monsoon | seasonal wind named for the direction in which it blows or the season in which it occurs | 10 | |
| 112430804 | citadel | strong central fortress | 11 | |
| 112430805 | epic | long poem describing heroes and great events | 12 | |
| 112430806 | caste system | form of social organization in which groups of people are divided into distinct classes | 13 | |
| 112430807 | raja | Indian prince | 14 | |
| 112430808 | stupa | hemispherical, or dome-shaped, shrine | 15 | |
| 112430809 | yoga | physical and mental discipline harmonizing body and soul | 16 | |
| 112430810 | Brahmin | Indian priest | 17 | |
| 112430811 | karma | positive or negative force generated by a person's actions, which will determine the person's status in the next life | 18 | |
| 112430812 | monism | belief that God and humans are one | 19 | |
| 112430813 | rhetoric | the study of public speaking and debating | 20 | |
| 112430814 | polis | Greek word for city-state | 21 | |
| 112430815 | democracy | government in which all citizens participate | 22 | |
| 112430816 | popular government | the idea that people could and should rule themselves rather than be ruled by others | 23 | |
| 112430817 | terracing | creating small, flat plots of land by building low walls and filling the space behind them with soil | 24 | |
| 112430818 | metic | non-Athenian who was free but could not own land or take part in government | 25 | |
| 112430819 | helot | agricultural laborer who was a member of the lowest class in Sparta | 26 | |
| 112430820 | myth | traditional story about the deeds of gods and goddesses | 27 | |
| 112430821 | tyrant | ruler who seizes power by force | 28 | |
| 112430822 | aristocracy | priveliged ruling class | 29 | |
| 112430823 | Phillip II of Macedonia | conqueror of Greece and father of Alexander the Great | 30 | |
| 112430824 | Herodotus | father of history and the first great historian of the western world | 31 | |
| 112430825 | Hippocrates | founder of medicine who taught that all disease comes from natural causes | 32 | |
| 112430826 | Plato | greek philosopher who wrote the Republic | 33 | |
| 112430827 | Archimedes | Greek mathemetician who invented the compound pulley and built machines with levers | 34 | |
| 112430828 | Sophocles | author of the Greek tragedy Oedipus Rex | 35 | |
| 112430829 | Phidias | sculptor who designed the statue of Zeus at the Temple of Olympia | 36 | |
| 112430830 | Socrates | great teacher who was sentenced to death for criticizing Greek democracy and leadership | 37 | |
| 112430831 | Eratosthenes | Hellenistic geographer who calculatedthe circumference of Earth with amazing accuracy | 38 | |
| 112430832 | Euclid | mathematician who developed geometry into a system and wrote the textbook Elements | 39 | |
| 112430833 | Patrician | member of the powerful aristocratic class in the Roman Republic | 40 | |
| 112430834 | checks and balances | division of power that prevents any one part of the government from becoming too powerful | 41 | |
| 112430835 | anarchy | abscence of any government at all | 42 | |
| 112430836 | indemnity | money paid for war damages | 43 | |
| 112430837 | republic | form of government in which voters elect their leaders | 44 | |
| 112430838 | inflation | rise in prices caused by a decrease in the value of the exchange medium | 45 | |
| 112430839 | consul | one of two chief executives who ran the government and who was also an army commander | 46 | |
| 112430840 | patriarch | bishop of one of those cities that served as administrative centers for the church | 47 | |
| 112430841 | plebian | citizen of the Roman Republic who was not a patrician | 48 | |
| 112430842 | veto | to refuse to approve | 49 | |
| 112430843 | Ice Age | four cold-weather periods lasting from 50,000 to 110,000 years | 50 | |
| 112430844 | Neanderthal | first people to believe in a god or gods | 51 | |
| 112430845 | Cro-Magnon | created paintings in caves in southern France and Spain | 52 | |
| 112430846 | Dog domestication | Stone Age | 53 | |
| 112430847 | four river valleys | where civilization first developed | 54 | |
| 112430848 | copper | first metal to be used | 55 | |
| 112430849 | division of labor | one of the characteristics of a civilization | 56 | |
| 112430850 | Menes | united Egypt around 3200 B.C. | 57 | |
| 112430851 | Tigris and Euphrates | important rivers that flow from Turkey to the Persian Gulf | 58 | |
| 112430852 | Moses | led Hebrew people out of slavery in Egypt | 59 | |
| 112430853 | Sumerians | first to write on clay tablets with a stylus | 60 | |
| 112430854 | Amon | most important god of ancient Egypt | 61 | |
| 112430855 | Hittites | first to use iron for weapons | 62 | |
| 112430856 | Chaldeans | built the palace of Nebuchadnezzar | 63 | |
| 112430857 | Judaism | system of laws and religious faith developed by the Hebrews | 64 | |
| 112430858 | Code of Hammurabi | controlled all aspects of life in Babylonia | 65 | |
| 112430859 | Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa | provide info about Indus Valley civilizations | 66 | |
| 112430860 | Deccan | interior region of the Indian subcontinent | 67 | |
| 112430861 | Vedas | great literature of the Indo-Aryan religion | 68 | |
| 112430862 | reincarnation | rebirth of the soul | 69 | |
| 112430863 | Hinduism | major religion of India | 70 | |
| 112430864 | Indo-Aryans | overran northwestern India in 1750 B.C. | 71 | |
| 112430865 | Chandragupta Maurya | united northwestern India up to the Hindu Kush | 72 | |
| 112430866 | Ajanta | site of famous cave paintings | 73 | |
| 112430867 | untouchables | impure in Indian society | 74 | |
| 112430868 | dynastic cycle | rise and fall of successive families of rulers in China | 75 | |
| 112430869 | Shang priests | wrote questions on oracle bones | 76 | |
| 112430870 | Qin dynasty | established autocracy | 77 | |
| 112430871 | Civil Service Exam | taken by prospective individuals who wanted to work in civil service positions | 78 | |
| 112430872 | Wu Di | established the Han dynasty and the Pax Sinica | 79 | |
| 112430873 | legalists | believed in power and harsh laws | 80 | |
| 112430874 | Five Classics | expected to be learned by well-brought-up young men | 81 | |
| 112430875 | Aegean Sea | separated the Balkan Peninsula and Asia Minor | 82 | |
| 112430876 | Crete | site of Minoans | 83 | |
| 112430877 | Greek city-states | had acropolis and agora | 84 | |
| 112430878 | Iliad & Odyssey | written by Homer | 85 | |
| 112430879 | Athenian democracy | gave ppower to the common people | 86 | |
| 112430880 | battle at Platea | in 479 B.C. ended the Persian Wars | 87 | |
| 112430881 | commercial rivalries | helped cause the Peloponnesian War | 88 | |
| 112430882 | Age of Pericles | period of power and prosperity for Athens | 89 | |
| 112430883 | characteristics of Greek art | expressed in the ideals of harmony, balance, order, and moderation | 90 | |
| 112430884 | Hellenized | to become assimilated into Greek culture | 91 | |
| 112430885 | Octavian | defeated Antony and Cleopatra's fleet | 92 | |
| 112430886 | First Triumvirate | Caesar, Pompey, and Crassus | 93 | |
| 112430887 | Senate | most powerful part of Roman government | 94 | |
| 112430888 | Twelve Tables | Roman law | 95 | |
| 112430889 | Marcus Aurelius | last of the good emperors | 96 | |
| 112430890 | Cyril and Methodius | brought Christianity to the Slavs | 97 | |
| 112430891 | Justinianic Code | organized by Byzantine scholars | 98 | |
| 112430892 | 1453 | end of the Byzantine Empire | 99 | |
| 112430893 | Kiev | located on the Dnieper river | 100 | |
| 112430894 | peasants | Kievan society | 101 | |
| 112430895 | Moscow | in 1300 became strongest principality in eastern Europe | 102 | |
| 112430896 | Ivan I | took the title of czar | 103 |
