4822706964 | Venus figurines | Intricate carvings or statues of women in paleolithic culture | 0 | |
4822706965 | Clovis culture | Culture that emerged about 13,000 years ago across North America | 1 | |
4822706966 | Shamans | People believed to be skilled at dealing with spirit world | 2 | |
4822706967 | Gobekli Tepe or "potbelly hill" | 5 acre complex in southeastern turkey dating back almost 12,000 years | 3 | |
4829140989 | Fertile crescent | In southwest Asia including present day Iraq, Syria, Palestine, Jordan and southern turkey was the first place to have a full agricultural revolution | 4 | |
4829140990 | Diffusion | Gradual spread of agricultural technique with out extensive movement of agricultural people | 5 | |
4829140991 | Bantu migration | Starting around 3000 BCE Bantu people from Nigeria and Cameroon move east and south driving out Paleolithic people | 6 | |
4829140992 | Pastoral societies | Society where farming was difficult so reliance on domesticated animals was big | 7 | |
4829140993 | Catal Huyuk | Early agricultural village in south turkey | 8 | |
4829140994 | Chiefdoms | Societies with organized politics with inherited positions | 9 | |
4842300840 | Indus Valley civilizations | Civilization that arose during the third millenium BCE. By 2000 BCE contained more area then any others. Had elaborately planned cities | 10 | |
4842300841 | Central Asian/ Oxus civilizations | Civilization took shape right after 2200 BCE and contained compounds, workshops and temples surrounded by walls and gates | 11 | |
4842300842 | Olmec civilization "mother civilization" | Final first civilization on the Gulf of Mexico around 1200 BCE. The cities arose from series of chiefdoms. Very ceremonial and may have created first written language in Americas | 12 | |
4842399581 | Uruk | Mesopotamia's largest city | 13 | |
4842399582 | Epic of Gilgamesh | Mesopotamia's ancient epic poem describing Uruk | 14 | |
4842399583 | Mohenjo Daro/Harappa | Large Mesopotamian cities which flourished on Indus River. Intricate streets and sewage systems | 15 | |
4842399584 | Code of Hammurabi | Famous set of rules or laws | 16 | |
4842399585 | Patriarchy | Women's submission to men | 17 | |
4861745827 | Rise of the state | States were organized around cities or large areas and held ancient civilizations in order. Usually King has power | 18 | |
4870509984 | Egypt | Civilization surrounding the Nile relying on its flooding for agriculture | 19 | |
4870509985 | Sumer | Mesopotamian civilization located in the southern Tigris-Euphrates region | 20 | |
4870509986 | Nubia | Civilization to the south of Egypt in the Nile valley | 21 |
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