from World History the Human Experience
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| 1051702783 | domesticate | Tames animals and adapt crops for the purpose of cultivation. | 1 | |
| 1051702784 | deity | A god or goddess | 2 | |
| 1051702785 | neo | new | 3 | |
| 1051702786 | lithic | made of or pertaining to stone | 4 | |
| 1051702787 | neolithic revolution | A period when humans first started to learn to plant crops and domesticate animals for their food, instead of hunting and gathering | 5 | |
| 1051702788 | agricultural revolution | Also known as the Neolithic Revolution, this is the transformation of human (and world) existence caused by the deliberate cultivation of particular plants and the deliberate taming and breeding of particular animals. | 6 | |
| 1051702789 | Catal Huyuk | Agricultural village in turkey from 6000 BC. largest settlement found from neolithic era. doors on roofs. houses = 1 main room + 2 side rooms for storage. | 7 | |
| 1051702790 | Jericho | An ancient and strategically vital city in Canaan, the first major city to be captured by the Israelites. | 8 | |
| 1051702791 | 3 Eras of Humanity | The Stone Age, The Bronze Age, and the Iron Age | 9 | |
| 1051702792 | civilization | A society with cities, a central government, job specialization, and social classes | 10 | |
| 1051702793 | economy | A system for producing and distributing goods, and services to fulfill people's wants | 11 | |
| 1051702794 | artisan | A skilled craftsperson | 12 | |
| 1051702795 | cultural diffusion | The spread of cultural elements from one society to another | 13 | |
| 1051702796 | myth | A traditional story about gods, ancestors, or heroes, told to explain the natural world or the customs and beliefs of a society. | 14 | |
| 1051702797 | Sumer | A group of ancient city-states in southern Mesopotamia; the earliest civilization in Mesopotamia. | 15 | |
| 1051702798 | the Sumerians | Creators of the first civilization in the Middle East. They lived by raising grain and dates and invented cuneiform, ziggurats, the wheel, sail, plow, accurate calender, geometry, and a counting system based on 60. | 16 | |
| 1051702799 | monotheistic | Believing in one god. | 17 | |
| 1051702800 | polytheistic | Believing in many gods | 18 | |
| 1051702801 | Tigris River | A river in southwestern Asia that flows through the eastern part of the Fertile Crescent | 19 | |
| 1051702802 | Euphrates River | A river in southwestern Asia that flows through the southern part of the Fertile Crescent. | 20 | |
| 1051702803 | irrigation systems | system of transporting water from one place to another; , In early times, people built these to carry water from rivers to crops. | 21 | |
| 1051702804 | nomadic | (of groups of people) tending to travel and change settlements frequently, wandering, moving about from place to place, adj. lacking stability of a home base | 22 | |
| 1051702805 | city-state | An independent state consisting of a city and the surrounding countryside and villages. | 23 | |
| 1051702806 | Ziggurat | A rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians | 24 | |
| 1051702807 | cuneiform | An ancient wedge-shaped script developed in Sumer used in Mesopotamia and Persia. | 25 | |
| 1051702808 | Sargon 1 | Akkadian leader who overran the Sumerian city-states and established a dynastic empire. | 26 | |
| 1051702809 | Hammurabi | (ruled c. 1792-1750 BC) King of Babylonia; he was a brilliant military leader who brought all of Mesopotamia into the Babylonian Empire. He is known for his uniform code of 282 laws, the earliest known set of written laws. | 27 | |
| 1051702810 | Hammurabi's Code | A set of 282 laws governing daily life in Babylon; the earliest known collection of written laws | 28 | |
| 1051702811 | Gilgamesh | a legendary Sumerian king who was the hero of an epic collection of mythic stories | 29 | |
| 1051702812 | Utnapishtim Flood Story | 7 days/ 6 nights; god promises immortality to Utnapishtim, people often compare this story to Noah's Ark | 30 | |
| 1051702813 | Noah's Ark Story | Noah built an ark and took many animals while God destroyed the Earth with a flood. Rains fell for forty days and forty nights. The dove brought back an olive leaf indicating that the waters are subsiding. | 31 | |
| 1051702814 | Babylonian | An ancient empire of Mesopotamia in the Euphrates River valley. It flourished under Hammurabi and Nebuchadnezzar II but declined after 562 b.c. and fell to the Persians in 539. | 32 | |
| 1051702815 | Ka | the spiritual part of an individual believed by ancient Egyptians to survive the body after death. | 33 | |
| 1051702816 | priest | A person whose office it is to perform religious rites, and especially to make sacrificial offerings. | 34 | |
| 1051702817 | Kemet | Egyptian name for Egypt, means "the Black Lands" | 35 | |
| 1051702818 | papyrus | A reed that grows along the banks of the Nile River in Egypt. From it was produced a coarse, paperlike writing medium used by the Egyptians and many other peoples in the ancient Mediterranean and Middle East. | 36 | |
| 1051702819 | monarchy | a government by a single person in which power is inherited | 37 | |
| 1051702820 | patriarch | The male head of a family or tribe | 38 | |
| 1051702821 | dynasty | a series of rulers from the same family | 39 | |
| 1051702822 | pharaoh | a king of ancient Egypt, considered a god as well as a political and military leader | 40 | |
| 1051702823 | theocracy | government run by religious leaders | 41 | |
| 1051702824 | bureaucracy | a system of managing government through departments run by appointed officials | 42 | |
| 1051702825 | empire | A group of states or territories controlled by one ruler | 43 | |
| 1051702826 | delta | A landform made of sediment that is deposited where a river flows into an ocean or lake | 44 | |
| 1051702827 | Fertile Crescent | An area of fertile land in the Middle East stretching in a broad semicircle from the Nile to the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. | 45 | |
| 1051702828 | hieroglyphics | an ancient Egyptian writing system in which pictures were used to represent ideas and sounds | 46 | |
| 1051702829 | priestess | . a woman authorized to perform the sacred rites of religion, a female priest | 47 | |
| 1051702830 | Indus River valley | A region in present-day Pakistan that was the birthplace of the Indus River valley (Harappan) civilization. | 48 | |
| 1051702831 | subcontinent | A large landmass that forms a distinct part of a continent. | 49 | |
| 1051702832 | Hindu Kush | A mountain range along the northern border of India. | 50 | |
| 1051702833 | Himalayas | The highest mountains in the world, which stretch along northern India, separating it from the rest of Asia. | 51 | |
| 1051702834 | monsoon | A strong wind that blows across East Asia at certain times of the year | 52 | |
| 1051702835 | Harrapan | the people who settled on the Indian Subcontinent. They are known for their elaborate city planning and their sophisticated plumbing and sewage systems. | 53 | |
| 1051702836 | foraging | the act of searching for food and provisions;, A style of life in which people gain food by gathering plant products, trapping or catching small animals and birds, and hunting larger prey. | 54 | |
| 1051702837 | anthropogenic | Human-induced changes on the natural environment; | 55 | |
| 1051702838 | natron | Chemical used in mummification; helps dry out the body for preservation | 56 | |
| 1051702839 | mummification | a process of embalming and drying corpses to prevent them from decaying; practiced by the Egyptians who preserved the bodies in tombs so they could get the best of their afterlife | 57 | |
| 1051702840 | longitude | Distance east or west of the prime meridian - vertical lines of the globe | 58 | |
| 1051702841 | latitude | Distance north or south of the equator - horizontal lines on the globe | 59 | |
| 1051702842 | paleopathologist | study ancient diseases, trauma, and nutritious defiiencies (anything weird that can happen to a skeleton) | 60 | |
| 1051702843 | revisionist | Those who rewrite history for political or ideological purposes | 61 | |
| 1051702844 | Progressivists | Believe moral authority is dynamic and subjective. Trust their own moral compass, decisions may change over time. | 62 | |
| 1051702845 | slash and burn | A farming method involving the cutting of trees, then burning them to provide ash-enriched soil for the planting of crops | 63 | |
| 1051702846 | Nile River valley | River valley of rich black soil in Northeast Africa on which the Egyptian Empire rose. | 64 | |
| 1051702847 | Mesopotamia | The land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers; birthplace of the Sumerian and Babylonian Civilizations. | 65 | |
| 1051702848 | Egyptian Class Structure | god-king at the top, an upper class of nobles and priests, followed by merchants, artisans, scribes, tax collectors and peasants | 66 |
