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| 10733887683 | Bronze Age | the period of ancient human culture characterized by the use of bronze that began between 4000 and 3000 b.c. and ended with the advent of the Iron Age |  | 0 |
| 10733903136 | Çatalhüyük | an important Neolithic site in what is now Turkey (pron. cha-TAHL-hoo-YOOK) |  | 1 |
| 10748069619 | Clan | a group of people tracing descent from a common ancestor; extended family |  | 2 |
| 10748086805 | Chiefdom | a societal grouping governed by a chief who typically relies on generosity, ritual status, or charisma rather than force to win obedience from the people |  | 3 |
| 10748098381 | Domestication | to adapt (an animal or plant) over time from a wild or natural state especially by selective breeding to life in close association with and to the benefit of humans |  | 4 |
| 10748106603 | Egalitarian | a belief in human equality especially with respect to social, political, and economic affairs |  | 5 |
| 10748113966 | Homo Sapiens | the primate species to which modern humans belong; humans regarded as a species; believed to have originated about 250,000 years ago |  | 6 |
| 10748124080 | Hunting and Gathering (Hunter Forager) | group that supports itself by hunting and fishing and by gathering wild fruits and vegetables; usually nomadic |  | 7 |
| 10748140267 | Jericho | city of ancient Palestine near the site of modern Jericho... sometimes said to be the oldest city |  | 8 |
| 10748146051 | Neolithic Revolution | In the Neolithic period farm animals were first domesticated and agriculture was introduced: it began in the Near East by the 8th millennium BC and spread to northern Europe by the 4th millennium BC. |  | 9 |
| 10748167381 | Paleolithic Age | also called Old Stone Age, ancient cultural stage, or level, of human development, characterized by the use of rudimentary chipped stone tools; 2.5 million years ago to 12,000 years ago |  | 10 |
| 10760200503 | Pastoralism | a human society that relies on domesticated animals rather than plants as the main source of food; pastoral nomads lead their animals to seasonal grazing grounds rather than settling permanently in a single location |  | 11 |
| 10760205767 | Patriarchy | a social organization marked by the supremacy of the father in the clan or family, the legal dependence of wives and children, and the reckoning of descent and inheritance in the male line; broadly : control by men of a disproportionately large share of power |  | 12 |
| 10760212935 | Specialization of Labor | ...it was no longer necessary for one individual to learn how to do every kind of work. Instead, one person could specialize in making pottery, while another could specialize in weaving cloth. As a result of this specialization, men and women were able to hone their skills. The quality of their pottery, cloth, or other products became increasingly better... |  | 13 |
| 10760217916 | Tribe | a social group comprising numerous families, clans, or generations together with slaves, dependents, or adopted strangers |  | 14 |
| 10760221475 | Austronesian Migration | the last phase of the great human migration that established a human presence in every habitable region of the earth.Austronesian-speaking people settled the Pacific islands and Madagascar in a series of seaborne migrations that began around 3,500 years ago |  | 15 |
| 10760226938 | Bantu Migration | the spread of Bantu-speaking peoples from their homeland in what is now southern Nigeria or Cameroon to most of Africa, in a process that started ca. 3000 B.C.E. and continued for several millennia |  | 16 |
| 10760231830 | Fertile Crescent | a region sometimes known as Southwest Asia that includes the modern states of Iraq, Syria, Israel/Palestine, and southern Turkey; the earliest home of agriculture |  | 17 |
| 10760237715 | Evolution | changes that allow an organism to better adapt to its environment will help it survive and have more offspring |  | 18 |
| 10760241925 | Venus Figurines | paleolithic carvings of the female form, often with exaggerated breasts, buttocks, hips, and stomachs, which may have had religious significance |  | 19 |
