12438040 | Neolithic | "New Stone Age" The last devision of the stone age. Charactarized by increasing domestication of animals and cultivation of crops. | 0 | |
12438041 | Innovation | Explanation that similar cultural traits, techniques, or objects found among different groups of people were invented independantly rather than spreading from 1 group to another. | 1 | |
12438042 | Diffusion | The spread of ideas, objects,or traits from 1 culture to another. | 2 | |
12438043 | Ziggurat | A temple tower of ancient Mesopotamia | 3 | |
12438044 | Bas Relief | A sculptural relief in which forms extend only slightly from the background | 4 | |
12438045 | Pictogram | A pictorial symbol or sign representing an object or concept | 5 | |
12438046 | Cuneiform | An ancient wedge-shaped script used in Mesopotamia and Persia | 6 | |
12438047 | Ideogram | A character or figure in a writing system in which the idea of a thing is represented rather than it's name | 7 | |
12438048 | Gilgamesh | a legendary Sumerian king who was the hero of an epic collection of mythic stories | 8 | |
12518151 | Code of Hammurabi | The collection of laws organized by Hammurabi for the people of Babylon to follow | 9 | |
12518152 | Hieroglyphs | A writing system from Egypt that contains symbols in it. Is the same writing system used today. | 10 | |
12518153 | Pharaoh | A title of an ancient Egyptian king. | 11 | |
12518154 | Pyramids | A huge, triangular shaped monument of ancient Egypt built around a tomb | 12 | |
12518155 | Sumerians | People who dominated Southern Mesopotamia through the end of the 3rd Millennium BCE. Responsible for the creation of irrigation technology, cunieform, and religious conceptions. | 13 | |
12518156 | Civilization | Modern society with its conveniences | 14 | |
12518157 | Daoism | A religion philosophical system of ancient China, which emerged in the 6th century B.C.E. | 15 | |
12518158 | Zhou | A Chinese dynasty characterized by great intellectual achievements, including the rise of Confucianism and Taoism and the writing of the oldest known Chinese literature. | 16 | |
12518159 | Confucius | Chinese philosopher whose Analects contain a collection of his sayings and dialogues compiled by disciples after his death. | 17 | |
12518160 | Qin | A Chinese dynasty that established the first centralized imperial government in China. Much of the Great Wall of China was built during the rule of this dynasty. | 18 | |
12518161 | Shi Huangdi | Emperor of the Qin dynasty | 19 | |
12518162 | Great Wall | A fortification 1,500 miles long built across northern China in the 3rd century BC | 20 | |
12518447 | Han | Imperial dynasty that ruled China from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy | 21 | |
12518448 | Mesopotamia | The land between the Tigris and Euphrates | 22 | |
12518449 | City-States | Area under one government | 23 | |
12518450 | Babylonians | The people who defeated the south, Judah | 24 | |
12518451 | Kush | An ancient nubian kingdom whose rulers contolled egypt between 2000 and 1000 B.C. | 25 | |
12518575 | Harappa | Site of one of the great cities of the Indus Valley civilization of the third millennium B.C.E. It was located on the northwest frontier of the zone of cultivation , and may have been a center for the acquisition of raw materials | 26 | |
12518576 | Mahenjo Daro | One of the largest Indus Valley civilizations with accomidations for about 40,000 people; also had a suburb | 27 | |
12518911 | Indus River | An Asian river | 28 | |
12518912 | Ideographic | In this stage pictures were converted into ideograms, pictures that suggest names of objects and events that became symbols,. | 29 | |
12518913 | Shang | The imperial dynasty ruling China from about the 18th to the 12th centuries BC | 30 | |
12518914 | Phoenicians | Sailing and trading people who had many colonies on the Mediterranean coast | 31 | |
12518915 | Monotheism | belief in a single God | 32 |
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