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| 4763744425 | Periodization (BCE&CE, BC&AD) | BCE: before common era CE: common era BC: before Christ AD: anno domini | 0 | |
| 4763745491 | Paleolithic | relating to or denoting the early phase of the Stone Age, lasting about 2.5 million years, when primitive stone implements were used. | 1 | |
| 4763745492 | Neolithic | relating to or denoting the later part of the Stone Age, when ground or polished stone weapons and implements prevailed. | 2 | |
| 4763744426 | metallurgy | study of metal | 3 | |
| 4763744427 | textile | type of cloth | 4 | |
| 4763744428 | Neolithic Revolution | aka agricultural revolution; the beginning of farming | 5 | |
| 4763744429 | Epic of Gilgamesh | a long epic poem from ancient Mesopotamia | 6 | |
| 4763745857 | irrigation | the method in which water is supplied to plants at regular intervals for agriculture | 7 | |
| 4763744430 | Hammurabi's Code | a uniform code of law that deals with every aspect of life; written down in Babylon | 8 | |
| 4763744433 | cuneiform | a system of writing used in Sumer | 9 | |
| 4763744434 | Moses | the man who led the Israelites out of Egypt (Judaism) | 10 | |
| 4763744435 | polytheism | belief in many gods | 11 | |
| 4763744436 | semitic | indicates people who speak Hebrew, Arabic, or Aramaic | 12 | |
| 4763744437 | city-state | a city and its surrounding land which functions as its own independent country | 13 | |
| 4763744438 | Indo-Europeans | group of nomadic people who came from the steppes | 14 | |
| 4763746550 | pastoral nomads | are producers of food and raise livestock; they move about within their established territory to find good pastures for their animals | 15 | |
| 4763746551 | Hebrews | people who descended from the patriarch Jacob; live in what is now Israel and Palestine | 16 | |
| 4763746552 | Jews | a member of the people and cultural community whose traditional religion is Judaism and who trace their origins to the ancient Hebrew people of Israel | 17 | |
| 4763746771 | Israelites | a member of the ancient Hebrew nation, especially in the period from the Exodus to the Babylonian Captivity | 18 | |
| 4763746772 | Abraham | the first of the great Biblical patriarchs, father of Isaac, and traditional founder of the ancient Hebrew nation; "father of many" | 19 | |
| 4763746851 | Monotheism | the doctrine or belief that there is only one God | 20 | |
| 4763744439 | Phoenicians | excellent seafarers; created the alphabet; large network of trade | 21 | |
| 4763744440 | savannah | a grassy plain in tropical and subtropical regions, with few trees | 22 | |
| 4763744441 | pharaoh | Egyptian king who acted as a god | 23 | |
| 4763744442 | mercenary | a soldier who is paid to fight in a foreign army | 24 | |
| 4763744444 | hieroglyphics | Egyptian system of writing | 25 | |
| 4763744445 | Rosetta Stone | black stone inscribed in three languages (Greek, hieroglyphics, simple hieroglyphics; helped to translate hieroglyphics | 26 | |
| 4763744446 | Aryans | one group of Indo-Europeans who moved into the Indus river valley | 27 | |
| 4763744450 | Brahman | highest position in the cast system; priest | 28 | |
| 4763744451 | karma | goods or bad deeds | 29 | |
| 4763744452 | dharma | Buddhist doctrines | 30 | |
| 4763744453 | ascetic | practice of severe self-discipline | 31 | |
| 4763744456 | Shang dynasty | first to leave written records | 32 | |
| 4763744457 | Zhou dynasty | start of Mandate of Heaven and feudalism | 33 | |
| 4763744458 | Qin dynasty | used Legalist ideas to subdue the warring state; program of centralization | 34 | |
| 4763744459 | Han dynasty | established a centralizing policy; encouraged Confucianism; advances in technology | 35 | |
| 4763744460 | mandate of heaven | the right from God to rule | 36 | |
| 4763744461 | decentralized administration | admisitration rulers entrust power to subordinates who owed allegiance,tribute, and military support to the gov't | 37 | |
| 4763744462 | royal court | place where an important ruler lives | 38 | |
| 4763750562 | artisans | a worker in a skilled trade, especially one that involves making things by hand | 39 | |
| 4763744466 | maize | corn; cultivated in the Americas | 40 | |
| 4763744467 | Bering land bridge | a land bridge that appeared during the Ice Age which connected Alaska and Russia. | 41 | |
| 4763751774 | River Valley Civilizations | Egypt, Mesopotamia, Indus Valley, and China | 42 |
