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2794586237CivilizationAny group of people sharing a set of cultual traits0
2794586403CultureSocially transmitted patterns of action and expression1
2794586405HistoryThe study of past events and changes in development2
2794586404Stone AgeThe historical period characterized by production of tools from stone and other non metallic substances3
2794586598PaleolithicThe period of the Stone Age associated with the evolution of humans (구석시 시대). This comes before Neolithic4
2794586867NeolithicThe period of the Stonge Age associated with the ancient Agricultural Revolution (신석기 시대)5
2794594862ForagersPeople who support themselves by hunting wild animals and gathering wild edible plants and insects6
2794587676Agricultural RevolutionsThe change from food gathering to food production that occurred between 8000 to 2000 B.C. Also known as Neolithic revolution.7
2794591530MegalithsStructures and complexes of very large stones constructed for ceremoonial and religious purposes in Neolithic times. (고인돌)8
2794591531SumeriansThe people who dominated southern Mesopotamiathrough the end of the third millenium B.C. THey were responsible for the creation of many fundamental elements of Mesopotamian culture.9
2794591666SemiticFamily of related languages long spoken across parts of western Asia and northen Africa.10
2794592046City-stateA small independent state consisting of an urban center and the surrounding agricultural territory.11
2794592047BabylonThe largest and most important city in Mesopotamia12
2794592048HammurabiAmorite ruler of Babylon. He conquered many city-states in southern and northern Mesopotamia13
2794592049ScribeIn the governments of many ancient societies, a professional position for educated men that is able to read and write using the writing systems.14
2794592399ZigguratA massive pyramid stepped tower made of mud bricks. Associated with religious complexes in ancient Mesopotamian cities.15
2794592400AmuletSmall charm meant to protect the bearer from evil.16
2794592590CuneiformA system of writing in which wedge-shaped symbols represented words or syllables.17
2794592591BronzeAn alloy of copper with a small amount of tin.18
2794592592PharaohThe central figure in the ancient Egyptian state.19
2794593056Ma'atEgyptian term for the concept of divinely created and maintained order in the unvierse20
2794593057A PyramidA latge triangular stone monument21
2794593058MemphisThe captial of Old Kingdom Egypt, near the head of the Nile Delta22
2794593059ThebesCapital city of Egypt and home of the ruling dynasties during the Middle and New Kingdoms.23
2794593446HieroglyphicsA system of writing in which pictorial symbols represented sounds, syllables, or concepts.24
2794593447PapyrusA reed that grows along the abnks of the Nile River in Egypt. Also used to make papers25
2794593448MummyA body preserved by chemical processes or special natural circumstances, often in the belief that the deceased will need it again in the afterlife.26
2794594396HarappaSite of one of the great cities of the Indus Valley civilization of the third millennium B.C.27
2794594863Mohenjo-DaroLargest of the cities of the Indus Valley.28
2794595258LoessA fine, light yellowish-brown dust deposited by wind and water.29
2794595259ShangThe dominant people in the earliest Chinese dynasty for which we have written records. (Shang Dynasty)30
2794595260ZhouThe people and dynasty that overthrew position in north China from the Shang and created the concept of the Mandate of Heaven to justify their rule.31
2794595479Mandate of HeavenChinese religious and politcal ideology developed by the Zhou32
2794595819ConfuciusWestern name for the Chinese philosopher Kongzi. Great influence on Chinese thoughts.33
2794596070DaoismChinese school of throught, originating in the Warring States Period with Laozi.34
2794596071Yin/YangChinese belief that helped to maintain the equilibrium of the world35
2794596353KushAn Egyptian name for Nubia, the region alongside the Nile River south of Egypt.36
2794596354MeroeCapital of a flourishing Kingdom in southern Nubia from the fourth century CE37
2794596355CeltsPeoples sharing common lingustic and cultural features that originated in Central Europe in the first half of the first millennium38
2794596694DruidsThe class of religious experts who conducted rituals and preserved sacred lore among some ancient Celtic peoples.39
2794596695OlmecThe first Mesoamerican civilization. They created a vibrant civilization that included intensive agricultre.40
2794596696ChavinThe first major urban civilization in South America41
2794596697LlamaAn animal with humps on the back42
2794597108Iron AgeA period during which iron was the primary metal for tools and weapons43
2794597109HittitesA people from central Anatolia who established an empire in Antolia and Syria in the Late Bronze Age.44
2794597110HatshepsutQueen of Egypt. She dispatched a naval expedition to Punt(North east Sudan)45
2794597992AkhenatenEgyptian pharaoh. He built a new captial at Amarna.46
2794598210Ramesses IIA ong ived ruler of New Kingdom Egypt. He reached an accododation with the Hitties of Anatolia after a standoff in battle at Kadesh in Syria.47
2794598552MinoanProsperous civilization on the Aegean island of Crete in the second millenium B.C48
2794598553MycenaeAn ancient city of a fortified palace complex in southern Greece that controlled a late Bronze Age kingdom.49
2794599014Shaft gravesA term used for the burial sites of elite members of Mycenaean Greek society in the mid-second millenium B.C50
2794599015Linear BA set of syllabic symbols, derived from the writing system of Minoan Crete.51
2794599016Neo-Assyrian EmpireAn empire extending from western Iran to Syria-Palestine, conquered by the Assyrians of northern Mesopotamia between the tenth and seventh centuries B.C.52
2794599445Mass deportationThe forceible removal and relocation of large numbers of people.53
2794599924Library of AshurbanipalA large collection of writings from the ancient literary traditions of Mespotamia.54
2794599925IsraelIn antiquity, the land between the eastern shore of the Mediterranean and the Jordan River, occupied by the Israelites from the early second millennium B.C.55
2794599926Hebrew BibleA collection of sacred books containing diverse materials concerning the origins of the Israelities.56
2794600123First TempleA sacred place built in Jerusalem by King Solomon in the tenth century.57
2794600124MonotheismBelief in the existence of only one God58
2794600125DiasporaGreek word menaing "dispersal" used to describe the communities of a given ethnic group living outside their homeland.59
2794600439PhoeniciansSemitic speaking Canaanites living on the coast of modern Lebanon and Syria in the first millennium.60
2794600440CarthageCity located in present-day Tunisia, founded by Phoenicians. It became a major commercial center and naval power.61
2794601847Neo-Babylonian KingdomUnder the Chaldeans, Babylon again bcame a major political and cultural center in the seventh and sixth centuries B.C.62

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