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| 438111933 | Forager | one who searches for food by hunting or gathering | |
| 438111934 | 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 | |
| 438111935 | pastoralism | A type of agricultural activity based on nomadic animal husbandry or the raising of livestock to provide food, clothing, and shelter. | |
| 438111936 | the state | a seperate part of an empire with its on individual government | |
| 438111937 | city-state | a city with political and economic control over the surrounding countryside | |
| 438111938 | empire | a group of countries under a single authority | |
| 438111939 | domestication | the taming of animals for human use, such as work or as food | |
| 438111940 | specialized labor | Artisans emerged, Traded with others | |
| 438111941 | social stratification | the condition of being arranged in social strata or classes within a group | |
| 438111942 | hierarchy | the organization of people at different ranks in an administrative body | |
| 438111943 | urban planning | determining and drawing up plans for the future physical arrangement and condition of a community | |
| 438111944 | monumental architecture | characteristic of civilization, often religious monuments (i.e. ziggrats in Mesopotamia, pyramids in Egypt) | |
| 438111945 | bronze metallurgy | copper and tin combined to make Bronze, Shang completely controlled bronze production. | |
| 438111946 | iron metallurgy | Extraction of iron from its ores. allowed for cheaper stronger production of weapons and tools. More abundant than tin and copper | |
| 438111947 | chariots | are two-wheeled carts that are pulled by horses; some are used in battles or in races | |
| 438111948 | ziggurats | Sumerian temples made of sun-dried brick | |
| 438111949 | pyramids | Huge stone tombs with four triangle-shaped walls that met in a point on top | |
| 438111950 | fortifications | protective walls | |
| 438111951 | cuneiform | an ancient wedge-shaped script used in Mesopotamia and Persia | |
| 438111952 | hieroglyphics | an ancient Egyptian writing system in which pictures were used to represent ideas and sounds | |
| 438111953 | alphabets | writing systems in which a symbol represents a sound. | |
| 438111954 | pictographs | picture symbols | |
| 438111955 | quipu | knotted cords of various lengths and colors used by the inca to keep financial records | |
| 438111956 | vedic religion | A symbiosis of gods and humans because humans could only prosper in an oriented cosmos [system]. The gods were needed to maintain cosmic order (Rita). | |
| 438111957 | hebrew monotheism | Considered to be the first ONE GOD faith | |
| 438111958 | zoroastrianism | system of religion founded in Persia in the 6th century BC by Zoroaster | |
| 438111959 | epic of gilgamesh | an epic poem from Mesopotamia, and among the earliest known works of literary writing. | |
| 438111960 | rig veda | A collections of 1, 017 Sanskrit hymns composed about 1500BC earlier; Hinduism's oldest text. | |
| 438111961 | book of the dead | Collection of religious spells which were thought to be helpful to the deceased in the afterlife. | |
| 438111962 | hammurabi's code | A legal code developed by King Hammurabi of Mesopotamia. The code was influential in the establishment of Hebrew and Islamic law and in the U.S. judiciary system. It specified crimes and punishments to help judges impose penalties. | |
| 438111963 | archeology | the study of ancient cultures based on artifacts and other remains | |
| 438111964 | patriarchy | a form of social organization in which a male is the family head and title is traced through the male line | |
| 438111965 | 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 | |
| 438111966 | irrigation | supplying dry land with water by means of ditches etc | |
| 438111967 | push/pull factors | events and conditions that either force people to move elsewhere or strongly attract them to do so | |
| 438111968 | sedentary | settling in one place. not migrating | |
| 438111969 | nomadic | (of groups of people) tending to travel and change settlements frequently | |
| 438111970 | diaspora | the dispersion of the Jews outside Israel | |
| 438111971 | polytheism | belief in more than 1 god | |
| 438111972 | austronesian language | the family of languages spoken in Australia and Formosa and Malaysia and Polynesia | |
| 438111973 | bantu languages | Descriptive name for languages spoken largely east and south of the present day nation of Nigeria; i.e., in the regions commonly known as central Africa, east Africa, and southern Africa | |
| 438111974 | cultural diffusion | the spread of cultural elements from one society to another | |
| 438111975 | oracle bones | animal bones carved with written characters which were used for telling the future | |
| 438111976 | indo-european languages | a family (or phylum) of several hundred related languages and dialects,[1] including most major languages of Europe, Iran, and northern India, and historically also predominant in Anatolia and Central Asia. |
