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| 7235841773 | Catal Huyuk | an archaeological site in what is now south-central Turkey. The site demonstrates how humanity changed during the transition from the Neolithic period (the New Stone Age) to the Chalcolithic period (the Copper age), as well as from hunting and gathering towards herding and farming, all the while providing insights for how the earliest citizens provided for the town's defense and religion. | 0 | |
| 7235841774 | Australopithecus | A fossil bipedal primate with both apelike and human characteristics, found in Pliocene and lower Pleistocene deposits ( c. 4 million to 1 million years old) in Africa | 1 | |
| 7235841775 | Homo erectus | meaning "upright man", from the Latin ērigere, "to put up, set upright") is an extinct species of hominin that lived throughout most of the Pleistocene geological epoch. | 2 | |
| 7235841776 | Homo sapiens | the species of bipedal primates to which modern humans belong, characterized by a brain capacity averaging 1400 cc (85 cubic in.) and by dependence upon language and the creation and utilization of complex tools | 3 | |
| 7235841777 | Neandertal | an extinct species of human that was widely distributed in ice-age Europe between c. 120,000-35,000 years ago, with a receding forehead and prominent brow ridges. They were associated with the Mousterian flint industry of the Middle Paleolithic | 4 | |
| 7235841778 | Monotheism | the doctrine or belief that there is only one God | 5 | |
| 7235841779 | Paleolithic Era | Of or relating to the cultural period of the Stone Age beginning with the earliest chipped stone tools, about 2.4 million years ago, until the beginning of the Mesolithic Period, about 15,000 to 11,500 years ago in western Asia and southern Europe. n. Also called Old Stone Age. | 6 | |
| 7235841780 | Neolithic Era | The period of human culture that began around 10,000 years ago in the Middle East and later in other parts of the world. It is characterized by the beginning of farming, the domestication of animals, the development of crafts such as pottery and weaving, and the making of polished stone tools | 7 | |
| 7235841781 | Assyrians | An inhabitant of ancient Assyria | 8 | |
| 7235841782 | Uruk | An ancient city in southern Mesopotamia, to the north-west of Ur. One of the greatest cities of Sumer, it was built in the 5th millennium BC and is associated with the legendary hero Gilgamesh | 9 | |
| 7235841783 | Ziggurats | (in ancient Mesopotamia) a rectangular stepped tower, sometimes surmounted by a temple. They are first attested in the late 3rd millennium BC and probably inspired the biblical story of the Tower of Babel | 10 | |
| 7235841784 | Hammurabi | 18th century b.c. or earlier, king of Babylonia | 11 | |
| 7235841785 | Yahweh | a form of the Hebrew name of God used in the Bible. The name came to be regarded by Jews ( c. 300 BC) as too sacred to be spoken, and the vowel sounds are uncertain | 12 | |
| 7235841786 | Nebuchadnezzar | a king of Babylonia, 604-561 b.c., and conqueror of Jerusalem. He was the son and successor of Nabopolassar. He was the greatest and most powerful of all the Babylonian kings. The Median and Babylonian dynasties united. He must have possessed an enormous command of human labour, nine-tenths of Babylon itself, and nineteen-twentieths of all the other ruins that in almost countless profusion cover the land, are composed of bricks stamped with his name. He appears to have built or restored almost every city and temple in the whole country. | 13 | |
| 7235841787 | Sumerians | a member of the indigenous non-Semitic people of ancient Babylonia | 14 |
