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| 209903203 | Agrarian | Having to do with farming or agriculture. | 0 | |
| 209903204 | Agriculturists | Generate their own foods from planting | 1 | |
| 209903205 | Archaeology | the branch of anthropology that studies prehistoric people and their cultures | 2 | |
| 209903206 | Asceticism | rigorous self-denial and active self-restraint | 3 | |
| 209903207 | Aryans | Indo-European speaking nomads who entered India from the Central Asian steppes between 1500 and 1000 BC and greatly affected Indian society. | 4 | |
| 209903208 | Austronesian | people who as early 2000 B.C.E. began to explore and settle islands of pacific ocean basin | 5 | |
| 209903209 | Bureaucracy | A form of organization that operates through impersonal, uniform rules and procedures. | 6 | |
| 209903210 | Brahman | a member of a social and cultural elite | 7 | |
| 209903211 | Brahmins | special priests of the Indo-Aryan societywho knew the proper forms and rulesof their complicated religious rituals | 8 | |
| 209903212 | Caste | a social class separated from others by distinctions of hereditary rank or profession or wealth | 9 | |
| 209903213 | Cataracts | floods of water; waves | 10 | |
| 209903214 | Civilzation | The type of culture and society developed by a particular nation or region or in a particular epoch: Mayan civilization; the civilization of ancient Rome | 11 | |
| 209903215 | Cuneiform | an ancient wedge-shaped script used in Mesopotamia and Persia | 12 | |
| 209903216 | Domestication | the taming of animals for human use, such as work or as food | 13 | |
| 209903217 | Dynasty | a sequence of powerful leaders in the same family | 14 | |
| 209903218 | Economic Specialization | Focusing on one product or service | 15 | |
| 209903219 | Egalitarian | promoting equal rights for all people | 16 | |
| 209903220 | Erosion | condition in which the earth's surface is worn away by the action of water and wind | 17 | |
| 209903221 | Foraging | hunting and gathering | 18 | |
| 209903222 | Hammurabi's Code | a set of 282 laws that dealt with almost every part of daily life | 19 | |
| 209903223 | Hieroglyphics | an ancient Egyptian writing system in which pictures were used to represent ideas and sounds | 20 | |
| 209903224 | Hittites | A people from central Anatolia who established an empire in Anatolia and Syria in the Late Bronze Age. With wealth from the trade in metals and military power based on chariot forces, the hittites vied with New Kingdom Egypt over Syria | 21 | |
| 209903225 | Indo-European | People from around the the Black Sea and the Caspian sea; Between 2500 and 2000 BC, they migrated all over Eurasia; known as Hittites or Aryans, became ancestors of Romans and Greeks | 22 | |
| 209903226 | Karma | (Hinduism and Buddhism) the effects of a person's actions that determine his destiny in his next incarnation | 23 | |
| 209903227 | Loess | fine, light silt deposited by wind and water. It constitutes the fertile soil of the Yellow River Valley in northern China. Because loess soil is not compacted, easily worked, but it leaves the region vulnerable to earthquakes | 24 | |
| 209903228 | Maize | tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears: widely cultivated in America in many varieties | 25 | |
| 209903229 | Mandate of Heaven | a political theory of ancient China in which those in power were given the right to rule from a divine source | 26 | |
| 209903230 | Matriarchal | Relating to a social system in which the mother is head of the family. | 27 | |
| 209903231 | Mercenary | a person hired to fight for another country than their own | 28 | |
| 209903232 | Metallurgy | the science and technology of metals | 29 | |
| 209903233 | Moksha | The Hindu concept of the spirit's 'liberation' from the endless cycle of rebirths. | 30 | |
| 209903234 | Monotheism | belief in a single God | 31 | |
| 209903235 | Neolithic | New Stone Age | 32 | |
| 209903236 | Nomad | a member of a group that settles briefly in one place and then moves on to another | 33 | |
| 209903237 | Obsidian | A usually black or banded, hard volcanic glass that displays shiny, curved surfaces when fractured and is formed by rapid cooling of lava | 34 | |
| 209903238 | Oracle Bones | cattle bones or tortoise shells on which Chinese priests would write questions and then interpret answers from the cracks that formed when the bones were heated | 35 | |
| 209903239 | Paleolithic | Old Stone Age | 36 | |
| 209903240 | Pastoralism | A type of agricultural activity based on nomadic animal husbandry or the raising of livestock to provide food, clothing, and shelter. | 37 | |
| 209903241 | Patriarchal | relating to a society in which men hold the greatest legal and moral authority | 38 | |
| 209903242 | Pharaoh | a king of ancient Egypt, considered a god as well as a political and military leader | 39 | |
| 209903243 | Pictographs | pictures that stand for words or ideas; picture writing | 40 | |
| 209903244 | Polytheism | Belief in many gods | 41 | |
| 209903245 | Samsara | the Hindu cycle of death and rebirth; in Buddhism means rebirth | 42 | |
| 209903246 | Sati | a ritual that required a woman to throw herself on her late husband's funeral pyre or burn herself. This was done gladly and if a woman didn't comply with this she would be disgraced. | 43 | |
| 209903247 | Savannah | a flat grassland in tropical or subtropical regions | 44 | |
| 209903248 | Self-Sufficient | able to provide there own needs | 45 | |
| 209903249 | Varna | a basic subdivision of humanity in the Hindu caste system(color base) | 46 | |
| 209903250 | Vedas | sacred texts in the Hindu religion, they are a set of four collections of hymns and religious ceremonies transmitted by memory through the centuries by Aryan priests | 47 | |
| 209903251 | Veneration | respect or awe inspired by the dignity, wisdom, dedication, or talent of a person | 48 | |
| 209903252 | Zoroastrianism | A religion originating in ancient Iran with the prophet Zoroaster. It centered on a single benevolent deity-Ahuramazda, Emphasizing truth-telling, purity, and reverence for nature, the religion demanded that humans choose sides between good and evil (120) | 49 |
