2011. Words one through thirty-four.
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| 126592537 | Prehistory vs. History | Prehistory has no written documents while history has written proof. | 0 | |
| 126592538 | Features of Civilization | - Sumerians in Mesopotamia - First irrigation civilization, drainage from the Tigris and Euphrates, first large cities, writing, buildings, wheel, bricks, plow, bronze. Theocracy changes to monarchy, different classes equals different treatment. - Egyptians- No middle class, no cities, lived in huts along Nile, mainly farming, slaves, not many problems with them. - Chinese - Many records with writing, monarchy, warring states starts when Zhou lose control, live in small villages with few large towns, agriculture no rice, no trade, maybe matriarchy. Emperor is high priest (Confuciasism). - Greeks - Difference between slave and free men, Sparta fights Athens in Peloponesian War, leads to Barbarians Mesodonian takeover, small farms, maritime trade, no large fertile areas, over population causes emigration, religion is civic duty, disrespect Gods. - Romans- Etruscan and Greeks effected early Roman civilization, Roman laws, started out with mainly peasants then slaves and unfree immigrants from Africa, Italy becomes dependent on food imports, plantations and estates replace farms. | 1 | |
| 126592539 | Paleolithic Era | The early part of the Stone Age, when early human beings made chipped-stone tools, from 750,000 to 15,000 years ago (approximately 2,500,000 BCE to 10,000 BCE). | 2 | |
| 126592540 | Neolithic Era | "New Stone Age" (8,000 BCE-3000 BCE), the development of more sophisticated tools. | 3 | |
| 126592541 | Family Units, Clans, Tribes | Primary social group, groups of related families that have a common identity and a real or legendary common ancestor, groups who share common ancestors or ways of living. | 4 | |
| 126592542 | Foraging Societies | Those in which people live by searching for wild plants and hunting wild animals. the division of labor, productivity, and settlement size are very low in such societies. | 5 | |
| 126592543 | Nomadic Hunters/Gatherers | Human beings who obtain their food from the bounty of nature, hunting animals and gathering wild plants. It is a subsistence lifestyle, practiced by all early human societies. Such people are generally nomads, moving on as food supplies dwindle. | 6 | |
| 126592544 | Ice Age | Any period of time during which glaciers covered a large part of the earth's surface. | 7 | |
| 126592545 | Civilization | A society with cities, a central government, job specialization, and social classes. | 8 | |
| 126592546 | Neolithic Revolution | The shift from hunting of animals and gathering of food to the keeping of animals and the growing of food on a regular basis around 8,000 BC. | 9 | |
| 126592547 | Domestication of Plants and Animals | The taming of animals and plants for human use, such as work or as food. | 10 | |
| 126592548 | Nomadic Pastoralism | A form of agriculture where livestock are herded either seasonally or continuously in order to find fresh pastures on which to graze. | 11 | |
| 126592549 | Migratory Farmers | Farmers that migrate instead of settling after using up the land. | 12 | |
| 126592550 | Patrilineal/Patrilocal | Male supremecy, may be linked to pressure or resources and high warfare. | 13 | |
| 126592551 | Irrigation Systems | A means of supplying land with water. | 14 | |
| 126592552 | Metalworking | The activity of making things out of metal in a skillful manner, | 15 | |
| 126592553 | Ethnocentricism | Racial or cultural prejudice. | 16 | |
| 126592554 | Foraging | The act of searching for food and provisions. | 17 | |
| 126592555 | Sedentary Agriculture | Planting seeds and harvesting them regularly. Began in the Neolithic. | 18 | |
| 126592556 | Slash-and-Burn Agriculture | Another name for shifring cultivation, so named because fields are cleared by slashing the vegetation and burning the debris. | 19 | |
| 126592557 | Matrilineal | Based on or tracing descent through the female line. | 20 | |
| 126592558 | Cultural Diffusion | The spread of ideas, customs, and technologies from one people to another. | 21 | |
| 126592559 | Independent Invention | The term for a trait with many cultural hearths that developed independent of each other. | 22 | |
| 126592560 | Specialization of Labor | When people had specific jobs suited to what they trained for or their talents that only a few people could do. | 23 | |
| 126592561 | Gender Division of Labor | The division of work into two categories based on sex, or gender. The result is that men and women do different kinds of work. | 24 | |
| 126592562 | Metallurgy | The science and technology of metals. | 25 | |
| 126592563 | Fertile Crescent | A geographical area of fertile land in the Middle East stretching in a broad semicircle from the Nile to the Tigris and Euphrates. | 26 | |
| 126592564 | Mesopotamia | The land between the Tigris and Euphrates. | 27 | |
| 126592565 | City States | Different sections of land owned by the same country but ruled by different rulers. | 28 | |
| 126592566 | Gilgamesh | A legendary Sumerian king who was the hero of an epic collection of mythic stories. | 29 | |
| 126592567 | Hammurabi's Law Code | The first set of defined laws within a civilization. | 30 | |
| 126592568 | Later Mesopotamian Empires | ... | 31 | |
| 126592569 | Babylonian Empire and Nebuchadnezzar | Empire in Mesopotamia which was formed by Hammurabi, the sixth ruler of the invading Amorites. King of Chaldea who captured and destroyed Jerusalem and exiled the Israelites to Babylonia (630?-562 BC). | 32 | |
| 126592570 | Patriarchal Society | Male-dominated society. | 33 |
