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4269941392Neolithic Revolutionhumans begin to farm0
4269946539Cave paintingsPaleolithic paintings of scenes of hunting or fertility, found in caves in France, South Africa, and other regions.1
4269948736Agricultural revolutionA time when new inventions such as the seed drill and the steel plow made farming easier and faster.2
4269951051Catal HuyukOldest settlement3
4269956945MesopotamiaA region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers that developed the first urban societies.4
4269962731Tigris riverRiver that flows across a low, flat plain in Iraq and joins the Euphrates River5
4269964349Euphrates riverA river in southwestern Asia that flows through the southern part of the Fertile Crescent.6
4269966147ZigguratsSumerian temples7
4269971195CuneiformSumerian wedge writing8
4269973049Hammurabi's CodeOldest written system of laws. Created in Babylon.9
4269976678Polytheismthe worship of multiple deities10
4269978828Epic of GilgameshAn epic poem from Mesopotamia11
4269982686Hieroglyphspictographic ancient Egyptian writing12
4269985021Nile RiverEgypt's central river, flows northward through East Africa into the Mediterranean Sea13
4269989808King MenesLeader of the first Egyptian ruling dynasty. United upper and lower Egypt14
4269991717PharohEgyptian ruler worshipped as a god15
4269998787Pyramidsburial sites of Egyptian pharohs16
4270001620PapyrusEgyptian paper17
4270003975King Tutking whose tomb has helped historians18
4270006637Phoneciansmanufacturing, trade, and phonetic alphabet19
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