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13434569430PatriarchyA form of social organization in which males dominate females0
13434593768MatriarchyA society ruled or controlled by women1
13434605115Clana group of related families2
13434663507TribeAny system of social organization made up of villages, bands, or other groups with a common ancestry, language, culture, and name3
13434682825Caste SystemA Indian social class system that controlled every aspect of daily life4
13434703654Theocracya system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god.5
13448952278MonarchyA government ruled by a king or queen6
13448963207City-statea city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state.7
13448974519Villagea community of people smaller than a town8
13448978337Hierarchya system or organization in which people or groups are ranked one above the other according to status or authority.9
13448983376Deforestationthe action of clearing a wide area of trees.10
13448990545Desertificationthe process by which fertile land becomes desert, typically as a result of drought, deforestation, or inappropriate agriculture.11
13449002148barterExchange goods without involving money.12
13449014185PolytheismBelief in many gods13
13449020012Naturalisma style and theory of representation based on the accurate depiction of detail.14
13449020013AnimismBelief that objects, such as plants and stones, or natural events, like thunderstorms and earthquakes, have a discrete spirit and conscious life.15
13449023314MonotheismBelief in one God16
13449023315zigguratstemples built by Sumerians to honor the gods and goddesses they worshiped17
13449031852ancestor worship or venerationpraying to, piously remembering, or religiously honoring one's deceased family members18
13449035480Mandate or HeavenThe right to rule is granted by heaven; based on virtue of the ruler19
13449088440Fertile CrescentA geographical area of fertile land in the Middle East stretching in a broad semicircle from the Nile to the Tigris and Euphrates20
13449102459Epic of GilgameshAn epic poem from Mesopotamia, and among the earliest known works of literary writing.21
13449114330Hammurabi's Codea set of 282 laws that dealt with almost every part of daily life in Babylonian empire22
13449133772CuneiformA form of writing developed by the Sumerians using a wedge shaped stylus and clay tablets.23
13449133773HieroglyphicsAn ancient Egyptian writing system in which pictures were used to represent ideas and sounds24
13449139449PapyrusA long-lasting, paper-like material made from reeds25
13449142727Paleolithic Age(750,000 BCE - 10,000 B.C.E.) Old Stone Age. A period of time in human history characterized by the use of stone tools and the use of hunting and gathering as a food source.26
13449151607Neolithic Age"New Stone Age"; About 10,000 years ago marked by advances in the production of stone tools. Shift from hunting and gathering to agriculture27
13449151608Metallurgythe branch of science and technology concerned with the properties of metals and their production and purification.28
13449158129Surplus of Food and what it allowed forExcess of food which allowed villages to increase their populations29
13449162795Division of laborDivision of work into a number of separate tasks to be performed by different workers30

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