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4753670939agricultural revolutionAn agricultural revolution or agrarian revolution is a period of transition from the pre-agricultural period characterized by a Paleolithic diet, into an agricultural period characterized by a diet of cultivated foods0
4753672540MegalithsMegaliths a large stone that forms a prehistoric monument (e.g., a menhir) or part of one (e.g., a stone circle or chamber tomb).1
4753673739SumerianSumerian is the language of ancient Sumer and a language isolate which was spoken in southern Mesopotamia (modern Iraq)2
4753674681SemiticSemitic relating to or denoting a family of languages that includes Hebrew, Arabic, and Aramaic and certain ancient languages such as Phoenician and Akkadian, constituting the main subgroup of the Afro-Asiatic family.3
4753675392City-stateCity-state a city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state.4
4753676370HammurabiHammurabi was the sixth king of the First Babylonian Dynasty, reigning from 1792 BC to 1750 BC. He was preceded by his father, Sin-Muballit, who abdicated due to failing health.5
4753677257ScribeScribe a person who copies out documents, especially one employed to do this before printing was invented.6
4753678016ZigguratZiggurat (in ancient Mesopotamia) a rectangular stepped tower, sometimes surmounted by a temple. Ziggurats are first attested in the late 3rd millennium BC and probably inspired the biblical story of the Tower of Babel7
4753680616AmuletAmulet an ornament or small piece of jewelry thought to give protection against evil, danger, or disease8
4753681220CuneiformCuneiform is a system of writing first developed by the ancient Sumerians of Mesopotamia c. 3500-3000 BCE. It is considered the most significant among the many cultural contributions of the Sumerians and the greatest among those of the Sumerian city of Uruk which advanced the writing of cuneiform c. 3200 BCE.9
4766136125PharaohPharaoh a ruler in ancient Egypt10
4766136512memphis and thebes rise and fall of great empires11
4766137036writing consisting of hieroglyphs12
4766137545papyrusThe word papyrus refers to a thick type of paper made from the pith of the papyrus plant, Cyperus papyrus.13
4766138436MummyMummy especially in ancient Egypt) a body of a human being or animal that has been ceremonially preserved by removal of the internal organs, treatment with natron and resin, and wrapping in bandages.14
4766139550HarappaHarappa is an archaeological site in Punjab, Pakistan, about 24 km west of Sahiwal. The site takes its name from a modern village located near the former course of the Ravi River.15
4766141725Mohenjo-daroMohenjo-daro is an archeological site in the province of Sindh, Pakistan. Built around 2500 BCE, it was one of the largest settlements of the ancient Indus Valley Civilization16
4766137546ShangShang according to traditional historiography, ruled in the Yellow River valley in the second millennium BC, succeeding the Xia dynasty and followed by the Zhou dynasty.17
4766162503The Western Zhou period (1046-771 BC)was the first half of the Zhou dynasty of ancient China. It began when King Wu of Zhou overthrew the Shang dynasty at the Battle of Muye. The dynasty was successful for about seventy-five years and then slowly lost power.18
4766164256ConfuciusConfucius was a Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn period of Chinese history.19
4766165311Taoism, also known as Daoism,Taoism, also known as Daoism, is a religious or philosophical tradition of Chinese origin with an emphasis on living in harmony with, and in accordance to the natural flow or cosmic structural order of the universe commonly referred to as the Tao20
4766165983Feng ShuiFeng Shui is a Chinese philosophical system of harmonizing everyone with the surrounding environment.21
4766169715MeroëMeroë is an ancient city on the east bank of the Nile about 6 km north-east of the Kabushiya station near Shendi, Sudan, approximately 200 km north-east of Khartoum.22
4766171075The Mandate of HeavenThe Mandate of Heaven is an ancient Chinese belief/theory and philosophical idea that heaven granted emperors the right to rule based on their ability to govern well, appropriately and fairly.23
4766171765CeltsCelts a member of a group of peoples inhabiting much of Europe and Asia Minor in pre-Roman times.24
4766172470DruidsDruids a priest, magician, or soothsayer in the ancient Celtic religion25
4766173012OlmecOlmec a member of a prehistoric people inhabiting the coast of Veracruz and western Tabasco on the Gulf of Mexico26
4766173013ChavinThe Chavín culture is an extinct, prehistoric civilization, named for Chavín de Huantar, the principal archaeological site at which its artifacts have been found27
4766175669LlamaThe llama is a domesticated South American camelid, widely used as a meat and pack animal by Andean cultures since the Pre-Columbian era.28
4766176454Iron AgeThe Iron Age is the period generally occurring after the Bronze Age, marked by the prevalent use of iron.29
4766177345HittitesThe Hittites were an Ancient Anatolian people who established an empire centered on Hattusa in north-central Anatolia around 1600 BC.30
4766179020HatshepsutHatshepsut was the fifth pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt. She was the second historically confirmed female pharaoh, the first being Sobekneferu31
4766201250AkhenatenAkhenaten known before the fifth year of his reign as Amenhotep IV, was an Ancient Egyptian pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty who ruled for 17 years and died perhaps in 1336 BC or 1334 BC.32
4766208919Ramesses IIRamesses II, also known as Ramesses the Great, was the third pharaoh of the Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt. He is often regarded as the greatest, most celebrated, and most powerful pharaoh of the Egyptian Empire33
4766210704The Minoan civilizationThe Minoan civilization was an Aegean Bronze Age civilization that arose on the island of Crete and other Aegean islands and flourished from approximately 3650 to 1400 BCE.34
4766255478MycenaeMycenae is an archaeological site in Greece, located about 90 kilometres southwest of Athens, in the north-eastern Peloponnese.35
4766256705A shaft tombA shaft tomb or shaft grave is a type of deep rectangular burial structure, similar in shape to the much shallower cist grave, containing a floor of pebbles, walls of rubble masonry, and a roof constructed of wooden planks.36
4766257566Linear BLinear B is a syllabic script that was used for writing Mycenaean Greek, the earliest attested form of Greek37
4766258186IsraelIsrael, a Middle Eastern country on the Mediterranean Sea, is regarded by Jews, Christians and Muslims as the biblical Holy Land.38
4766260219Hebrew BibleHebrew Bible or Hebrew Scriptures is the term used by biblical scholars to refer to the Tanakh, the canonical collection of Jewish texts, which is the common textual source of several canonical editions of the Christian Old Testament.39
4766261807Solomon's TempleAccording to the Hebrew Bible, Solomon's Temple, also known as the First Temple, was the Holy Temple in ancient Jerusalem before its destruction by Nebuchadnezzar II after the Siege of Jerusalem of 587 BC40
4766263328MonothesticOne God41
4766264018A diasporaA diaspora is a scattered population whose origin lies within a smaller geographic locale. Diaspora can also refer to the movement of the population from its original homeland.42
4766265235PhoeniciaPhoenicia was an ancient Semitic thalassocratic civilization situated on the western, coastal part of the Fertile Crescent and centred on the coastline of what is now Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine43

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