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| 2890407401 | Civilization | Societies distinguished by reliance on sedentary agriculture ability to produce food surpluses and existence of nonfarming elites as well as merchant and manufacturing groups | 0 | |
| 2890407402 | Mesopotamia | Literally between the rivers the civilizations that arose in the alluvial plane of the Tigris and Euphrates river valleys | 1 | |
| 2890407403 | Sumeriams | People who migrated into Mesopotamia 4000 B.C.E. created first civilization within the region organized area into city states | 2 | |
| 2890407404 | Cuneiform | A form of writing developed by the sumerians using a wedge-shaped stylus in Clay tablets | 3 | |
| 2890407405 | Ziggurats | Massive towers usually associated with Mesopotamian temple complexes | 4 | |
| 2890407406 | City state | A form of political organization typical of Mesopotamian civilization's consisted of agriculture hinterlands ruled by an urban based King | 5 | |
| 2890407407 | Babylonians | Unified all of Mesopotamian 1800 B.C.E. empire collapsed due to foreign invasion 1600 BCE | 6 | |
| 2890407408 | Hammurabi | The most important ruler of Babylonian empire responsible for codification of law | 7 | |
| 2890407409 | Pharaoh | Title of kings of ancient Egypt | 8 | |
| 2890407410 | Pyramids | Monumental architecture typical of old Kingdom Egypt used as burial sites for pharaohs | 9 | |
| 2890407411 | Kush | An African state that developed along the upper reaches of the Nile 1000 B.C.E. conquered Egypt and rolled it for several centuries | 10 | |
| 2890407412 | Indus River | River sources and Himalayas to mouth and Arabian Sea location of harappan in civilization | 11 | |
| 2890407413 | Harappa | Along with Mohenjodaro major urban complex of the Harappan civilization laid out on plan grid pattern | 12 | |
| 2890407414 | Aryans | And do European nomadic pastoralist who replaced Harappan civilization militarized society | 13 | |
| 2890407415 | Vedas | Aryan hymns originally transmitted orally but written down in sacred books from the sixth century BC E | 14 | |
| 2890407416 | Mahabharata | Indian epic of war princely on her love and social duty written down in the last centuries B.C.E. previously handed down an oral form | 15 | |
| 2890407417 | Ramayana | One of the great epic tales from classical India traces adventures of King Rama and his wife Seda written forth to second centuries B.C.E. | 16 | |
| 2890407418 | Upanishads | Later books of the vedas contain sophisticated and sublime philosophical ideas utilized by brahmans to restore religious authority | 17 | |
| 2890407419 | Yellow River | Also known as the hunghe sigh of development of sedentary agriculture in China | 18 | |
| 2890407420 | Ideographs | Pictographic characters group together to create new concepts typical of Chinese ready | 19 | |
| 2890407421 | Shang | First Chinese dynasty for which archeological evidence exists capital located in ordos bulge of the huanghe flourished 1600 to 1046 B.C.E. | 20 | |
| 2890407422 | Olmecs | People of a cultural tradition that aRose at San Lorenzo and la venta then the in Mexico 1200 B.C.E. featured irrigated agriculture urbanism elaborate religion beginnings of calendrical and writing systems | 21 | |
| 2890407423 | Chavin De huantar | Chavin culture appeared in Highlands of Andes between 1800 and 1200 B.C.E. Typified by ceremonial centers with large stone buildings greatest ceremonial center was Chavin de Huantar characterized by artistic motifs | 22 | |
| 2890407424 | Phoenicians | Seafaring civilization located on the shores of the eastern Mediterranean establish colonies throughout the Mediterranean | 23 | |
| 2890407425 | Monotheism | The exclusive worship of a single God introduced by the Jews into western civilization | 24 |
