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| 368103488 | Gilgamesh | Super hero king of Uruk | 1 | |
| 368103489 | Mesopotamia | present day iraq. Means "land between the rivers" | 2 | |
| 368103490 | Sumer | The world's first urban civilization | 3 | |
| 368103491 | Sumerians | equated civilization with their own wayof life | 4 | |
| 368103492 | Paleolithic | old stone age | 5 | |
| 368103493 | Neolithic | new stone age | 6 | |
| 368103494 | Stone Age | The historical period characterized by the production of tools from stone and other nonmetallic substances. It was followed in some places by the Bronze Age and more generally by the Iron Age. | 7 | |
| 368103495 | foragers | hunting and food gathering people | 8 | |
| 368103496 | neolithic revolution | the changeover from food gathering to food producing | 9 | |
| 368103497 | Agriculture Revolutions | The transformation of farming that resulted in the eighteenth century from the spread of new crops, improvements in cultivation techniques and livestock breeding, and the consolidation of small holdings into large farms from which tenants and sharecroppers were forcibly expelled. | 10 | |
| 368103498 | sorghums,millet,and teff | Rainfall patterns of the Sahara favored these locally domesticated grains over wheat and barley. | 11 | |
| 368103499 | maize | this plant helped americans depend on wild plants rather than game animals when the game animals were on the decline. It also helped them settle and make permanent homes and quit nomadism | 12 | |
| 368103500 | domesticated | animals were becoming | 13 | |
| 368103501 | domestic llama | provided meat, transport, and wool, while guinea pigs and turkeys provided meat | 14 | |
| 368103502 | pastorialism | a way of life dependent on large herds of grazing livestock, came to predominate in arid regions | 15 | |
| 368103503 | climate change | drove people to abandon hunting and gathering in favor of pastorialism and agriculture | 16 | |
| 368103504 | Holocene | The geological era since the end of the Great Ice Age about 11,000 years ago. | 17 | |
| 368103505 | megaliths | "big stones" Assemblages of ____seem to relate to religious beliefs | 18 | |
| 368103506 | Stonehenge | a famous megalithic site in England constructed about 2000 B.C.E., marked the positionof the sun and other celestial bodies at key points in the year | 19 | |
| 368103507 | Babylon | was the most important city in southern mesopatamia in the second and first millenia B.C.E. | 20 | |
| 368103508 | Marduk | the chief god of Babylon | 21 | |
| 368103509 | Tiamat | a female figure who personifies the salt sea | 22 | |
| 368103510 | Fertile Cresent | region of northern Syria and southeastern Anatolia | 23 | |
| 368103511 | Semitic | refers to a family of languages spoken in parts of western Asia and northern Africa | 24 | |
| 368103512 | city-state | refers to a self-governing urban center and the agricultural territories it controlled | 25 | |
| 368103513 | lugal | "big man" what we would call a king | 26 |
