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7001656864Gathering and Huntingsubsisting in the wild on food obtained by hunting and gathering0
7001656865Neolithic or Agricultural Revolutionwide scale transition of many human cultures from a lifestyle of hunting and gathering to one of agriculture and settlement, making possible an increasingly larger population1
7001656866Domesticationthe taming of animals for human use, such as work or as food2
7001656867InnovationA new method, idea, product, etc.3
7001656868Diffusionthe spreading of something more widely.4
7001672531Pastoral Societya society in which food is obtained primarily by raising and taking care of animals5
7001672532Sedentary Societystaying in one place and creating your own food6
7001675902Urban Revolutionthe process by which small, kin-based, nonliterate agricultural villages were transformed into large, socially complex, urban societies7
7001675903City-Statea city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state8
7001677320Civilizationthe stage of human social development and organization that is considered most advanced.9
7001677321Patriarchy (Patriarchal Society)a system of society or government in which men hold the power and women are largely excluded from it.10
7001679618Social Hierarchythe division of society by rank or class11
7001680825Job SpecializationThe process of focusing one's occupational concentration on a specific area of expertise.12
7001682403Metallurgythe branch of science and technology concerned with the properties of metals and their production and purification.13
7001683142Cuneiformdenoting or relating to the wedge-shaped characters used in the ancient writing systems of Mesopotamia, Persia, and Ugarit, surviving mainly impressed on clay tablets.14
7001683143Hieroglyphsa stylized picture of an object representing a word, syllable, or sound, as found in ancient Egyptian and other writing systems.15
7001684673Quipusan ancient Inca device for recording information, consisting of variously colored threads knotted in different ways.16

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