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| 7387823367 | Big Geography | Uses broad historical themes to analyze history | 0 | |
| 7387826009 | Paleolithic Era | AKA Old Stone Age. Includes tools made from stone , cave art , etc . |  | 1 |
| 7387830390 | 3. Savanna | a grassy plain in tropical and subtropical regions, with few trees |  | 2 |
| 7387830391 | Desert | hot and dry area with little rainfall |  | 3 |
| 7387832079 | Tundra | a vast, flat, treeless Arctic region where the subsoil is permanently frozen. |  | 4 |
| 7387839066 | 6. Hunting-foraging bands | small communities based on kinship that hunt and gather for food | 5 | |
| 7387845329 | 7. Neolithic Revolution | AKA New Stone Age . Used tools made from stone , starting farming and the domestication of animals began. | 6 | |
| 7387848074 | 8. Early Agricultural Societies | Societies that included the domestication of plants and animals, gender divisions where men are the farmers and women had domestic roles , etc . | 7 | |
| 7387848075 | Ice Age | period of colder global temperatures and recurring glacial expansion capable of lasting hundreds of millions of years |  | 8 |
| 7387853303 | 10. Settled Agriculture | Application of human labor and tools to a fixed plot of land for more than one growing cycle . Involves staying in one place until the soil has been exhausted | 9 | |
| 7387857080 | 11. Intensive Cultivation | system of cultivation using large amounts of labor and capital relative to land area. | 10 | |
| 7387859645 | 12. Irrigation Systems | system of supplying land with water with artificial canals, ditches, etc, to promote the growth of food crops | 11 | |
| 7387863252 | 13. Water Control Systems | a structure in a water management system that conveys water, controls the direction or rate of flow, or maintains a desired water surface elevation | 12 | |
| 7387865783 | 14. Domesticated Animals | animals that have been tamed by humans for their personal use | 13 | |
| 7387869135 | 15. Domesticated Plants | changing plants to make them more useful to human beings and then purposely raising them as crops | 14 | |
| 7387871803 | 16. Patriarchy (patriarchal social organizations) | government where the father or oldest male is the head of the family | 15 | |
| 7387875837 | 17. Forced Labor Systems | people are coerced to work through the use of violence or intimidation ( slavery ) | 16 | |
| 7387878322 | Society | people living together in a ordered community | 17 | |
| 7387882178 | 19. Pastoralism (pastoral societies) | societies where raising livestock are a big part of their lives ( typically nomads) | 18 | |
| 7387885519 | 20. Permanent Agricultural Villages | villages that used agriculture heavily . | 19 | |
| 7387885520 | 21. Eastern Mediterranean | area that is east of the Mediterranean Sea | 20 | |
| 7387890956 | 22. Mesopotamia in the Tigris and Euphrates River Valleys | Area between the tigris and euphrates river that had rich soil,based on farming and trade , had three major social groups , etc | 21 | |
| 7387892463 | 23. Egypt in the Nile River Valley | enriched the land with a thick layer of alluvial soil | 22 | |
| 7387894322 | 24. Mohenjo-daro and Harappa in the Indus River Valley | Arose at about 2500 BCE and ended with apparent destruction about 1500 BCE . Used fire-baked bricks for streets, sewer systems, etc . | 23 | |
| 7387896214 | 25. Shang in the Yellow River (or Huang He) Valley | the land was very fertile , peasants or slaves were main source of manual labor , gender roles , social classes , etc | 24 | |
| 7387898083 | 26. Olmec in Mesoamerica | First major civilization in Guatemala and Mexico . Ate corn, beans, and squash ,etc | 25 | |
| 7387898084 | 27. Chavin in Andean South America | was located in central Andes and coastal area of modern-day Peru | 26 | |
| 7387903024 | 28. Andes | longest continental mountain range in the world | 27 | |
| 7387903025 | 29. Sub-Saharan Africa | area of the continent of Africa that lies south of the Sahara | 28 | |
| 7387905486 | 30. Papua New Guinea | island nation in oceania, consisting of part of the huge island of new guinea, which it shares with Indonesia | 29 | |
| 7387913550 | 31. Afro-Eurasian Grasslands | grasslands that are located on the land masses of Africa and Eurasia | 30 | |
| 7387916034 | 32. Overgrazed | graze so heavily that the vegetation is damaged and the ground becomes more likely to erode | 31 | |
| 7387918101 | Classes | division of a society based on social and economic status |  | 32 |
| 7387920768 | Artisans | a worker in a skilled trade, especially one that involves making things by hand |  | 33 |
| 7387920769 | Warriors | brave or experienced soldier or fighter | 34 | |
| 7387922558 | Elites | small group of powerful people that control a disproportionate amount of wealth, privilege or political power in a society | 35 | |
| 7387924559 | Urban Societies | major cities characterized by modern industrial civilization with information technology | 36 | |
| 7387927676 | First Civilizations | early civilizations needed water for drinking and for their crops, so they settled near rivers | 37 | |
| 7387930901 | Agricultural Surplus | When there is too much of an agricultural production. It may be exported or stored for future times . | 38 | |
| 7387937860 | 41. Specialization of Labor | Distributes tasks efficiently. Workers occupy specialized roles | 39 | |
| 7387939888 | 42. Political Bureaucracies | both a body of non-elective government officials and an administrative policy-making group | 40 | |
| 7387943493 | 43. Religious Hierarchies | the classification of society into different groups based on religious beliefs or other faith-based considerations. | 41 | |
| 7387945942 | 44. Stratified Social Hierarchies | a system by which a society ranks categories of people in a hierarchy | 42 | |
| 7387949577 | Long-distance Trading Relationships | transport of goods over distances that exceed immediate relationships | 43 | |
| 7387956290 | 46. Nomadic Pastoralists | livestock are herded in order to find fresh pastures | 44 | |
| 7387953900 | Hittites | one of the first civilizations to settle down in the Tigris-Euphrates river valley | 45 | |
| 7387960488 | 48. Monumental Architecture | large human-made structures of stone or earth which are used as public buildings or communal spaces | 46 | |
| 7387963196 | 49. Urban Planning | 47 | ||
| 7387964872 | 50. Record Keeping | anything providing permanent evidence of or information about past events | 48 | |
| 7387964873 | Legal Codes | the philosophical study of moral values and rules | 49 | |
| 7387968370 | Vedic Religion | religion of the Indo-Aryans of northern India during the Vedic period . a historical predecessor of modern Hinduism, but different from it. | 50 | |
| 7387968371 | Hebrew Monotheism | religion that believes in the existence of only one god | 51 | |
| 7387971790 | Zoroastrianism | An Iranian religion founded by Zoroaster in 600 b.c | 52 |
