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| 10493310839 | Paleolithic Age | (Until 10,000 B.C.E.) Old Stone Age; stone tools & hunting and gathering as a food source. | 0 | |
| 10493311946 | Neolithic Age | New Stone Age; advances in production of stone tools. Shift from hunting and gathering to agriculture | 1 | |
| 10493313281 | Bronze Age | period between Stone and Iron ages, manufacture + use of bronze tools and weapons | 2 | |
| 10493313810 | Civilization | A complex, highly organized social order w/ surplus food production, city, trade, government, religion, etc. | 3 | |
| 10493314073 | City-state | A sovereign state comprising a city and its immediate hinterland | 4 | |
| 10493314074 | Oracle | person thought to be a source of wisdom/prophecy | 5 | |
| 10493314897 | Monotheism | belief in a single God | 6 | |
| 10493316243 | Neolithic Revolution | (10,000 - 8,000 BCE) development of agriculture and domestication of animals as a food source; led to development of permanent settlements and start of civilization. | 7 | |
| 10493316824 | Slash and burn agriculture | farming technique where trees are cut down and burned to clear and fertilize the land | 8 | |
| 10493318381 | Nomads | a member of a people having no permanent abode and travel from place to place to find fresh pasture for livestock | 9 | |
| 10493318653 | Polytheism | Belief in many gods | 10 | |
| 10493318654 | Ideographic symbols | writing system where a character/symbol represents an idea/thing without expressing the pronunciation of a word or words (i.e. Chinese, Japanese; directly represents a concept, idea, or thing) | 11 | |
| 10493319329 | Phoenicians | located on eastern Mediterranean coast; invented the alphabet which used sounds (phonetic) rather than symbols like cuneiform | 12 | |
| 10493320645 | Homo sapiens sapiens | "wise, wise humans," species that appeared in Africa between 150,000 and 200,000 years ago; first anatomically modern humans | 13 |
