Adapted from "The Earth and its Peoples: A Global History," 5th ed., Chapter 1
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| 291356132 | civilization | group of people sharing a set of cultural traits | 0 | |
| 291356133 | culture | socially transmitted patterns of action and expression | 1 | |
| 291356134 | history | the study of past events and changes in the development, transmission and transformation of cultural practices | 2 | |
| 291356135 | Stone Age | historical period characterized by the production of tools from stone and other nonmetallic substances | 3 | |
| 291356136 | Paleolithic | the period of the Stone Age associated with the evolution of humans | 4 | |
| 291356137 | Neolithic | the period of the Stone Age associated with the ancient Agricultural Revolutions | 5 | |
| 291356138 | foragers | people who support themselves by hunting wild animals and gathering wild edible plants and insects | 6 | |
| 291356139 | Agricultural Revolutions | the change from food gathering to food production between 8000 BCE and 2000 BCE | 7 | |
| 291356140 | megaliths | structures and complexes of very large stones constructed for ceremonial and religious purposes in Neolithic times | 8 | |
| 291356141 | Sumerians | the people who dominated Southern Mesopotamia through the end of the third millenium BCE | 9 | |
| 291356142 | Semitic | family of languages long spoken across parts of western Asia and northern Africa | 10 | |
| 291356143 | city-state | a small independent state consisting of an urban center and the surrounding agricultural territory | 11 | |
| 291356144 | Babylon | the largest and most important city in Mesopotamia | 12 | |
| 291356145 | Hammurabi | Amorite ruler of Babylon; best known for his law code | 13 | |
| 291356146 | scribe | a profession reserved for men who were able to read and write using cuneiform or hieroglyphics | 14 | |
| 291356147 | ziggurat | a massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mud bricks | 15 | |
| 291356148 | amulet | small charm meant to protect the bearer from evil | 16 | |
| 291356149 | cuneiform | a system of writing in which wedge-shaped symbols represent words or syllables | 17 | |
| 291356150 | bronze | alloy of copper and small amount of tin | 18 | |
| 291356151 | pharaoh | the central figure in the ancient Egyptian state | 19 | |
| 291356152 | ma'at | Egyptian term for the concept of divinely created and maintained order in the universe | 20 | |
| 291356153 | pyramid | a large, triangular stone monument used in Egypt and Nubia as a burial place for the king | 21 | |
| 291356154 | Memphis | capital of Old Kingdom Egypt | 22 | |
| 291356155 | Thebes | capital of Middle and New Kingdom Egypt | 23 | |
| 291356156 | hieroglyphics | system of writing in which pictorial systems represent sounds, syllables, or concepts | 24 | |
| 291356157 | papyrus | reed that grows along the banks of the Nile; used to make Egyptian paper | 25 | |
| 291356158 | mummy | a body preserved by chemical processes or special natural circumstances | 26 | |
| 291356159 | Harappa | site of one of the great cities of the Indus Valley civilization, third century BCE | 27 | |
| 291356160 | Mohenjo-Daro | largest city of the Indus Valley civilization | 28 |
