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| 81812537 | Fertile Crescent | Area in Middle East where earliest agricultural villages were formed. Located between Tigris and Euphrates rivers. | 0 | |
| 81812538 | Zagros Mountains | Eastern border of fertile crescent. | 1 | |
| 81812539 | Anatolia | Northwest border of fertile crescent. This country was northwest of Mesopotamia and is modern day Asia Minor (Turkey). | 2 | |
| 81812540 | Neolithic Age | The New Stone Age which went from about 8000 B.C to 3000 B.C. People who lived during this learned to polish stone tools, make pottery, grow crops, and raise animals. | 3 | |
| 81812541 | Jomon | Japanese non-agricultural society. | 4 | |
| 81812542 | Mesopotamia | First civilization located between the Tigris & Eurphrates Rivers in present day Iraq; term means "land between the rivers;" Sumerian culture. | 5 | |
| 81812543 | Tigris River | a river running through Sumer, Mespotamia, provided resources for the Mespotamians. | 6 | |
| 81812544 | Euphrates River | River in Mesopotamia; earilest known cities appeared from this river, in modern-day Iraq. | 7 | |
| 81812545 | Nile River | River in Egypt that provided nutrient rich land to support civilization. | 8 | |
| 81812546 | Indus River | The earliest Indian civilization, dating back to 2500 BCE, began in the valley of this river in the northwestern part of the subcontinent of south Asia | 9 | |
| 81812547 | Huang He River | The Yellow River in China. | 10 | |
| 81812548 | Niger River | River flowing from western Africa into the Gulf of Guinea | 11 | |
| 81812549 | Bronze Age | Era when cities began to form (instead of small villages). Tools were being made of metal. | 12 | |
| 81812550 | quipu | An arrangement of knotted strings on a cord, used by the Inca to record numerical information. | 13 | |
| 81812551 | Sumerians | Created cuneiform writing. | 14 | |
| 81812552 | Sargon | Conquered Mesopotamia & united the city-states | 15 | |
| 81812553 | Catal Hüyük | Largest neolithic village (became a town). | 16 | |
| 81812554 | ziggurat | A huge mud-brick temple built by the ancient Sumerians in Mesopotamia. | 17 | |
| 81812555 | bas relief | A sculptural relief in which forms extend only slightly from the background | 18 | |
| 81812556 | pictograms | A writing system where a symbol represents an object or concept. | 19 | |
| 81812557 | cuneiform | Sumerian writing made by pressing a wedge-shaped tool into clay tablets | 20 | |
| 81812558 | ideograms | The system of writing used in China and other East Asian countries in which each symbol represents an idea or concept rather than a specific sound, as is the case with letters in English. | 21 | |
| 81812559 | Epic of Gilgamesh | A series of Sumerian tales that show Sumerian values and beliefs | 22 | |
| 81812560 | Code of Hammurabi | The collection of laws organized by Hammurabi for the people of Babylon to follow. Earliest set of laws. | 23 | |
| 81812561 | polis | A Greek city-state. | 24 |
