7391726486 | Paleolithic era | Paleolithic humans lived a nomadic lifestyle in small groups. These were the first evolved group of humans. 2.6 million years ago to around 10000 years ago. | 0 | |
7391728360 | Neolithic era | Neolithic humans discovered agriculture and animal husbandry, which allowed them to settle down in one area. 10,000 BC and ended between 4500 and 2000 BC in various parts of the world. | 1 | |
7391731505 | Hunter-gatherers | a member of a nomadic people who live chiefly by hunting, fishing, and harvesting wild food. Spent most of their day doing this(Little free time) | 2 | |
7391734441 | pastoral Nomadism | form of agriculture based on herding domesticated animals | 3 | |
7391737481 | sedentary farming | Farming that takes place in a permanent location. Sedentary farmers relied on their farms for food, and not having to hunt for every meal allowed these people to create art and other things in their freetime. | 4 | |
7391742099 | Polytheism vs Monotheism | Polytheism-Multiple gods Monotheism-One god | 5 | |
7391745097 | code of Hammurabi | a Babylonian legal code of the 18th century b.c. or earlier, instituted by Hammurabi and dealing with criminal and civil matters. First code of laws. | 6 | |
7391748038 | Lex Talionas | the law of retaliation, whereby a punishment resembles the offense committed in kind and degree(eye for an eye) | 7 | |
7391750843 | Caste System | The caste system divides Hindus into four main categories - Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas and the Shudras. | ![]() | 8 |
7391750844 | Vedas | the most ancient Hindu scriptures, written in early Sanskrit and containing hymns, philosophy, and guidance on ritual for the priests of Vedic religion. | 9 | |
7391757200 | Torah(Hebrew Bible) | central reference for Judaism | 10 | |
7391757201 | Cuneiform | denoting or relating to the wedge-shaped characters used in the ancient writing systems of Mesopotamia, Persia, and Ugarit, surviving mainly impressed on clay tablets. | 11 | |
7391761084 | Hieroglyphics | A hieroglyph is a character of the ancient Egyptian writing system. | 12 | |
7391761085 | Fertile Crescent | The Fertile Crescent is a crescent-shaped region containing the comparatively moist and fertile land of otherwise arid and semi-arid Western Asia, the Nile Valley and Nile Delta. | ![]() | 13 |
7391764653 | Sanskrit | written language developed by the Aryans | 14 | |
7391770171 | Brahma | God of creation | 15 | |
7391770172 | Karma | in Buddhism and Hinduism, the effects that good or bad actions have on a person's soul | 16 | |
7391770173 | Dharma | In Hindu belief, a person's religious and moral duties | 17 | |
7391776832 | Homo Hibilius | estimated to have flourished 1.6 to 2 million years ago, and is believed to be the predecessor of Homo erectus. | 18 | |
7391778783 | Homo erectus | Compared with modern Homo sapiens, which have only been around for the last 200,000 years, Homo erectus, or "upright man," had a long reign. The ancient ancestor of modern humans lived from 2 million years ago till about 100,000 years ago, possibly even 50,000 years ago. | 19 | |
7391784379 | Homo Sapiens/Sapiens | the humanoid species that emerged as the most successful at the end of the Paleolithic period | 20 | |
7391784380 | Sumer | Mesopotamia means: "land between two rivers" First Civilizations developed between the Euphrates and the Tigris Rivers. By 3000 B.C. a number of cities are established by the Sumerians. | 21 | |
7391788246 | Phoenicians | The Phoenicians were a people occupying the land above Israel, refered to as Phoenicia. Phoenicians were primarily interested in trade as a form of government, which was facilitated by the expanse of the Mediterranean to the west. | 22 | |
7391793608 | Israelites | a member of the ancient Hebrew nation, especially in the period from the Exodus to the Babylonian Captivity ( c. 12th to 6th centuries BC). | 23 | |
7391793609 | Persians | Ethnic group that settled in what is now Iran. | 24 | |
7391797661 | Kushites and Nubians | The Kingdom of Kush or Kush (/kʊʃ, kʌʃ/) was an ancient kingdom in Nubia, located at the confluences of the Blue Nile, White Nile and River Atbara in what is now Sudan and South Sudan. | 25 | |
7391797662 | Shang China | a Chinese dynasty traditionally dated 1766-1122 b.c. and known especially for bronze work | 26 | |
7391801708 | Hittites | an Indo-European people who settled in Anatolia around 2000 B.C. | 27 | |
7391801709 | Aryans | immigrants who arrived at the Ganges river valley by the year 1000 BC | 28 | |
7391810209 | Eygptians | Greatest River Valley Civilization Nile River provided food, transportation, irrigation and fertilized the soil w/ predictible flooding Great builders, organizers, and most prosperous of 4 River Valley civs | 29 |
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