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| 7098364882 | Paleolithic Period | cultural period of the stone age |  | 0 |
| 7098373664 | Specialization of labor | each operation of a system is carried out by one person of small group of people |  | 1 |
| 7098385158 | artisans | people who made items others needed |  | 2 |
| 7098385159 | clan | A group of related families |  | 3 |
| 7098385554 | textiles | items made of cloth |  | 4 |
| 7098385855 | Neolithic Revolution | a period dramatic changes to how people lived their lives based on the development of agriculture |  | 5 |
| 7098386462 | hunter-forager | those that survived by hunting animals and searching for seeds, nuts, fruits, and edible roots |  | 6 |
| 7098386599 | merchants | people who buy and sell goods for a living |  | 7 |
| 7098386600 | tribe | forms when multiple clans combined |  | 8 |
| 7098387010 | Jericho | one of humankind's first cities, built on the west bank of the Jordan river |  | 9 |
| 7098387747 | monotheism | the worship of only one deity |  | 10 |
| 7098387748 | Nomadic pastoralism | simple pastoralism, moving herd of animals from one pasture to another |  | 11 |
| 7098388517 | Social stratification | social groups were based on control of resources and wealthy one could become |  | 12 |
| 7098388518 | artifacts | objects made by people in the past |  | 13 |
| 7098388844 | Catal Huyuk | one of the the first agricultural villages in the world, present-day Turkey |  | 14 |
| 7098388845 | Bronze Age | 3300-2300 B.C.E. describes period when use of bronze was widespread |  | 15 |
| 7098389216 | patriarchal | societies dominated by men |  | 16 |
| 7098389217 | Kinship group | several related families that moved together in search of food |  | 17 |
| 7098389639 | Homo sapiens sapiens | the group of modern humans |  | 18 |
| 7098389972 | Overfarming | a harmful agricultural practice resulting in the loss of soil nutrients |  | 19 |
| 7098390348 | Overgrazing | continual eating of grasses and their roots |  | 20 |
| 7098957450 | desertification | the creation of desert-like conditions |  | 21 |
| 7098957645 | division of labor | the assignment of different tasks to different people or groups |  | 22 |
| 7098957646 | theocrats | Rulers holding both religious and political power |  | 23 |
| 7098957913 | Indo-European | an overarching group of languages including English, French, Latin, and greek |  | 24 |
| 7098957914 | feudalism | a system of government based on land landowners and tenants |  | 25 |
| 7098958172 | environmental degradation | damage to or destruction of the natural environment |  | 26 |
| 7098958173 | barter | a system by which one thing is exchanged for another |  | 27 |
| 7098958400 | Golden Age | a period of peace, prosperity, and innovation |  | 28 |
| 7098958401 | papyrus | a type of plant that grew along the Nile River |  | 29 |
| 7098958626 | Mandate of Heaven | an idea that a just ruler's power was bestowed by the gods |  | 30 |
| 7098959011 | deforestation | is the clearing of trees, transforming a forest into cleared land. |  | 31 |
| 7098959012 | polytheistic | worshipping many gods |  | 32 |
| 7098960162 | ancestor veneration | Worship and respect for ancestors |  | 33 |
| 7098960370 | alphabetic script | a system of symbols that represent the sounds of speech |  | 34 |
| 7098960371 | empire | a large territory that included diverse cultural groups |  | 35 |
| 7098960585 | loess | a type of fertile soil that is yellow |  | 36 |
| 7098960586 | ziggurats | Sumerian large stepped pyramids |  | 37 |
| 7098960806 | cuneiform | world's first writing system created by Sumerians |  | 38 |
| 7098960807 | Sanskrit | Aryans sacred language |  | 39 |
| 7098961408 | city-states | a city that governs itself and its surrounding territory |  | 40 |
| 7105486581 | Royal Road | the most famous network of roads that encouraged trade |  | 41 |
| 7105487250 | syncretic | combining ideas from different sources |  | 42 |
| 7105487251 | aristocracy | government that was ruled by the nobles of the state |  | 43 |
| 7105487722 | direct democracy | a government of which citizens could vote directly |  | 44 |
| 7105487723 | hoplites | citizen soldiers |  | 45 |
| 7105488243 | aristocrats | rich landowners |  | 46 |
| 7105488464 | Socratic Method | method of learning through questions |  | 47 |
| 7105488465 | Zoroastrianism | faith that was based on the belief in one god, Ahura Mazda or "wise lord'' |  | 48 |
| 7105488834 | oligarchy | a government that was ruled by the wealthy landowners and merchants of a state |  | 49 |
| 7105488835 | representative democracy | citizens elect leaders to represent them and gives leaders the power to do what is needed |  | 50 |
| 7105489341 | archons | council of nobles |  | 51 |
| 7112449848 | merchants | people who buy and sell goods for a living |  | 52 |
| 7105489342 | Golden Mean | emphasis on moderation; avoiding extreme behaviors |  | 53 |
| 7105489835 | qanat | underground canals |  | 54 |
| 7105491108 | tyrants | leaders who seized power with the people's support |  | 55 |
| 7105491388 | Persian Wars | Series of conflicts fought between Greek states and the Persian Empire. |  | 56 |
| 7105491389 | helots | slaves |  | 57 |
| 7105492006 | caravanserai | combination inns and markets along the Royal Roads |  | 58 |
| 7105492007 | empiricism | one has learned from observation and evidence of the senses |  | 59 |
| 7105492338 | monarchies | Countries ruled by a king or queen |  | 60 |
| 7105492708 | democracy | all citizens of the state participated in the government |  | 61 |
| 7105492709 | Hellenistic Period | the time between the death of Alexander the great and the rise of the Roman domination. |  | 62 |
| 7105493325 | satraps | a ruler of a province who was responsible to the emperor |  | 63 |
| 7105494476 | Common currency | Created by Rome to make trade easier between different parts of the empire |  | 64 |
| 7110374999 | tribute | payments from the conquered to the conqueror |  | 65 |
| 7110375000 | hieroglyphics | Egyptians writing using pictures and symbols | 66 | |
| 7110375698 | Caracol | an observatory located in the city of Chichen Itza |  | 67 |
| 7110375699 | Teotihuacan | "birthplace of the gods" |  | 68 |
| 7110376149 | ayllus | small communities based on the idea of communal work |  | 69 |
| 7110376150 | Classic Period | highest peak of the Mayan civiliation |  | 70 |
| 7110376602 | Chichen Itza | location of the Caracol |  | 71 |
| 7110376603 | Olmec | First great civilization in central Mexico |  | 72 |
| 7110377234 | Mesoamerica | Middle America, including Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize |  | 73 |
| 7110377235 | Obsidian | hard glass rock |  | 74 |
| 7110377765 | Mayan | Ancient civilization that stretched from the southern part of Mexico into present day Belize, Honduras, and Guatemala |  | 75 |
| 7110377766 | Huaca del Sol | Temple of the Sun; a stepped pyramid |  | 76 |
| 7110378582 | mother civilization | Has influence on later civilizations |  | 77 |
| 7110379368 | Slash-and-burn agriculture | the process of cutting down trees and plants then burn that area to fertilize the area for the growth of crops |  | 78 |
| 7110379369 | Maya | people of the Olmec society that cultivated the lowlands of Mesoamerica |  | 79 |
| 7110379857 | Huaca de la Luna | Temple of the Moon; a terraced platform |  | 80 |
| 7110381805 | Moche | Early Peruvian culture |  | 81 |
