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| 10589927252 | civilization | a complex culture that is able to produce extra food; has large cities or towns with some form of government and has people performing different jobs | 0 | |
| 10589927253 | artifacts | objects--such as tools, clothing, works of art, weapons, and toys--made and used by hominids that we study today | 1 | |
| 10589927255 | cultural diffusion | the spread of ideas and other aspects of culture from one area to another | 2 | |
| 10589927256 | agriculture | the raising of crops for food | 3 | |
| 10589927257 | culture | a set of beliefs, knowledge, and patterns of living that a group of people develop | 4 | |
| 10589927259 | hominids | term used to describe humans as well as earlier humanlike creatures | 5 | |
| 10589927260 | anthropologist | A person who studies the origins and development of people and their societies. | 6 | |
| 10589927262 | Neolithic agricultural revolution | The long process known as the ______________ marks the important shift from food gathering to food producing. | 7 | |
| 10589927263 | hunter-gatherers | In a group of ______________________, men hunt animals and women stay near the campsites to gather plants and fruit. | 8 | |
| 10589927266 | nomads | ____________________ were people who wandered from place to place in search of food. | 9 | |
| 10589927277 | animism | Belief that objects, such as plants and stones, or natural events, like thunderstorms and earthquakes, have a discrete spirit and conscious life. | 10 | |
| 10589927311 | polytheistic | belief in many gods | 11 | |
| 10589927326 | cradle of civilization | the spot where organized human communities began |  | 12 |
| 10589927330 | Sumerians | The name of the first culture in the world to develop cities. |  | 13 |
| 10589927361 | cuneiform | Sumerian writing system, made up of wedge shapes. |  | 14 |
| 10589927383 | hieroglyphics | By About 3000BC Nile River Valley people developed a form of writing called? |  | 15 |
| 10589967879 | Prehistory | A period of time that refers to events or objects that date before the written record existed. | 16 | |
| 10589976771 | archaeologist | a scientist who learns about ancient people by studying the things they left behind | 17 | |
| 10589984318 | Paleolithic Era | called the old stone age (from 10,000 to 2.5 million years ago); they were concerned with food supply; they used stone as well as bone tools; they were nomadic hunters and gatherers. | 18 | |
| 10589995959 | Nile River Valley Civilization | people living along the nile river valley who built pyramids, developed irrigation methods, and designed the 365 day calendar | 19 | |
| 10589998676 | Yellow River Valley Civilization | Named for its light colored loess soil, which made it appear yellow, the Yellow, or Huang He River plain was the site of China's earliest civilization, the Shang. The plain's fertile farmland sometimes suffered from such great flooding that the river became known as "China's Sorrow | 20 | |
| 10590001725 | Indus River Valley Civilization | civilization from 2600 BC-1900 BC; entire Indian subcontinent-peninsula; possibly had twin capitals called Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro; well organized government | 21 | |
| 10590003839 | Olmec civilization | earliest known American civilization, located in southern Mexico and known for its pyramids and huge stone heads | 22 | |
| 10590008277 | city-state | A city with political and economic control over the surrounding countryside | 23 | |
| 10590021990 | Australopithecus | the earliest humanlike creature that flourished in eastern and southern Africa 2 to 3 million years ago | 24 | |
| 10590025977 | Homo sapiens | A species of the creatures Hominid who have larger brains and to which humans belong | 25 | |
| 14792267787 | Phoenicians | located on eastern Mediterranean coast; invented the alphabet which used sounds rather than symbols like cuneiform | 26 | |
| 14792270286 | Hebrews | Early group of people who lived in lands between Mesopotamia and Egypt. They developed the religion Judaism. | 27 | |
| 14792283910 | Mayans | A Mesoamerican civilization of Central America and southern Mexico. Achievements include mathematics, architecture, and a 365 day a year calendar. They flourished between the 4th and 12th centuries C.E.. | 28 | |
| 14792292188 | Monotheism | Belief in one God | 29 |
