7463254007 | urbanization | the process of making an area more urban | 0 | |
7463286117 | metallurgy | the process of making metal | 1 | |
7463350349 | bronze age | a time when tools started being made of things other than stone | 2 | |
7463363833 | quipu | knot of string in certain lengths to record business transactions; used by the Inca. | 3 | |
7463393057 | scribe | someone who wrote and recorded history | 4 | |
7463401901 | Mesopotamia | Modern day Iraq; the land between two rivers | 5 | |
7463415978 | Anatolia | Modern day Turkey | 6 | |
7463421024 | Ziggurats | a type of temple built in Mesopotamia | 7 | |
7463444950 | Cuneiform | A writing system made by pressing the slanted edge of a stylus into clay; used in Mesopotamia | 8 | |
7463464715 | Paleolithic age | old stone age; hunter-gatherer lifestyle | 9 | |
7463472683 | Neolithic | new stone age; transitioning to agricultural lifestyle; made better stone tools | 10 | |
7463484368 | Venus statues | statues with exaggerated female figures | 11 | |
7463493263 | Catal Huyuk | A town in Anatolia based off of their trade of obsidian | 12 | |
7463502221 | obsidian | a black stone that can be used to make very sharp tools | 13 | |
7463509682 | Jomon | a group of people based on hunting fish instead of agriculture | 14 | |
7463540899 | egalitarian | the principle that all are created equal | 15 | |
7463551494 | hierachy | a system where groups are ranked above one another by status or rank | 16 | |
7463612385 | silt | nutrient rich soil carried by water | 17 | |
7463616394 | irrigation | ways to bring water to crops | 18 | |
7463619877 | cataracts | a waterfall | 19 | |
7463630904 | indigenous | native to that area | 20 | |
7463635643 | dynasty | a line of hereditary rulers | 21 | |
7463649231 | monumental structures | large structures such as ziggurats or pyramids | 22 | |
7463676977 | social stratification | class differences based on wealth and socioeconomic classes | 23 | |
7463707199 | hieroglyphics | a writing system based on pictures | 24 | |
7463729071 | Rosetta stone | a stone used to decipher Egypt's text; had hieroglyphs, demotic shorthand, and Greek | 25 | |
7463753371 | shaduf | a type of irrigation; a hand operated device for moving water from the river into irrigation channels | 26 | |
7463781907 | Akhetatan | An Egyptian King who believed in one god, Aten | 27 | |
7463790773 | Polytheism | worship of multiple gods | 28 | |
7463795841 | monotheism | worship of one god | 29 | |
7463813868 | Harappa | Large city in the Indus valley, the most excavated | 30 | |
7463824463 | Mohenjo-Daro | "Hill of the Dead"; a large city, possibly a capital city, of the Indus valley | 31 | |
7463838791 | Granary | a place where food was stored to be safe from a flood | 32 | |
7463846283 | Citadel | a highly fortified part of the city, often raised higher than the rest of the city | 33 | |
7463866486 | Ban Po | best excavated yangshao village | 34 | |
7463889373 | Yangshao | a neolithic culture along the yellow river in China | 35 | |
7463898567 | Huang He | "Yellow River", a river that runs through China, unpredictable floods | 36 | |
7463909209 | oracle bones | marked bones used to tell stories or history | 37 | |
7463918971 | patriarchal society | male dominated society | 38 | |
7463932701 | mandate of heaven | the reasoning that if a king doesn't look after his people he may be removed from his position | 39 | |
7463944318 | cavalry | fighting on horseback | 40 | |
7463950595 | decentralized government | When rulers hand out power to others to rule smaller regions under his reign | 41 | |
7463965744 | chinampas | a way of agriculture; raised rectangular fields in swamps | 42 | |
7463987325 | Olmec | the first big civilization in the Americas | 43 | |
7464013638 | Nazca lines | channels built to control irrigation | 44 | |
7464036925 | Jenne-Jeno | first urban area in sub-Saharan Africa | 45 | |
7464046503 | Agrarian | agricultural | 46 | |
7464054413 | sedentary | stationary; living in one place | 47 | |
7464093212 | aristocracy | wealthy land owners or nobility hold power | 48 | |
7464108028 | bureaucracy | departments to organize a government | 49 | |
7464116690 | pastoral nomads | people who move from place to place for animals | 50 | |
7464159699 | city state | political organization that controls the land around it | 51 | |
7464180738 | diety | gods or goddesses | 52 | |
7464202003 | urban | characteristics of a city or town | 53 |
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