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7224468800	hominids	humans and other creatures that walk upright	0
7224468801	Homosapiens	The species name for modern humans	1
7224468802	complex society	-job specialization	2
7224468803	lucy	the first human who left remains of her bones; she lived around 3.5 million years ago.	3
7224468804	Paleolithic	Old stone age	4
7224468805	Neolithic	"New Stone Age"	5
7224468806	Venus figurines	Small Paleolithic statues of women with exaggerated sexual features.	6
7224468807	Lascaux Cave Paintings	cave art	7
7224468808	Textiles	the craft of making clothes	8
7224468809	Neolithic Revolution	The switch from nomadic lifestyles to a settled agricultural lifestyle is this revolution.	9
7224468810	Epic of Gilgamesh	an epic poem from ancient Mesopotamia	10
7224468811	Irrigation	The process of supplying water to areas of land to make them suitable for growing crops.	11
7224468812	Hammurabi's Code	first written code/set of laws that all were expected to obey. law of retaliation	12
7224468813	Assyrian Empire	934 to 608 BCE, Successful Empire in Mesopotamia	13
7224468814	bronze and iron metallurgy	the modification of a metal to make usefull objects	14
7224468815	Mesopotamia	Land between Tigris and Euphrates rivers	15
7224468816	Cunieform	The world's first system of writing	16
7224468817	Phoenicians	the most powerful traders along the Mediterranean	17
7224468818	Monotheism	Belief in one God	18
7224468819	Polytheism	Belief in many gods	19
7224468820	Patriarchal Society	a system run by men only	20
7224468821	Mummification	the preservation of dead bodies by embalming and wrapping them in cloth	21
7224468822	Savannahs	a grassy plain in tropical regions	22
7224468823	Demographic Pressure	the way humans damage the environment with populations and their size and rapid growth	23
7224468824	Cataracts	a large waterfall	24
7224468825	Pharaoh	Ancient Egyptian king	25
7224468826	Mercenary	a professional soldier hired by a foreign army	26
7224468827	Scribes	people who specialized in writing and record keeping	27
7224468828	Menes/Narmer	pharaoh that United upper and lower Egypt	28
7224468829	Heiroglyphics	Egyptian form of writing	29
7224468830	Pyramids	Huge stone tombs with four triangle-shaped walls that met in a point on top	30
7224468831	Rosetta Stone	Artifact that unlocked the mystery of Egyptian hieroglyphics	31
7224468832	Arayns	nomadic indo Europeans	32
7224468833	Harappan	The first Indian civilization; also known as the Indus Valley civilization	33
7224468834	vedas	book of knowledge; collection of prayers and hymns	34
7224468835	Big Veda	a collection of 1,028 hymns dedicated to Aryan gods	35
7224468836	Castes	social groups into which people are born and cannot change	36
7224468837	Upanishads	Indian mystical and philosophical works, written between 800 and 400 B.C.E.	37
7224468838	Brahmin	Priests	38
7224468839	ascetic	One who leads a life of self-denial and contemplation; absent of luxury	39
7224468840	sati	the Hindu ritual requiring a wife to throw herself on her deceased husband's funeral pyre	40
7224468841	Dravidians	The original people of the Indus Valley	41
7224468842	karma	the effects that good or bad actions have on a person's soul	42
7224468843	Brahman	The term for The Univeral Soul in Hinduism.	43
7224468844	jati	subcastes	44
7224468845	Ecological Degradation	the deterioration of the environment through overuse of resources	45
7224468846	Dynasty	A series of rulers from the same family	46
7224468847	Xia Dynasty	first Chinese dynasty	47
7224468848	loess	a fine, light slit deposited by by win and water	48
7224468849	China's Sorrow	Yellow river floods were disastrous, destroyed whole villages	49
7224468776	Hereditary state	the passing of power through blood	50
7224468777	Zhou Dynasty	the longest lasting Chinese dynasty, during which the use of iron was introduced.	51
7224468778	Book of Songs	a collection of 305 of the earliest recorded poems in Chinese history	52
7224468779	Mandate of Heaven	in Chinese history, the divine approval thought to be the basis of royal authority	53
7224468780	Oracle bones	animal bones carved with written characters which were used for telling the future	54
7224468781	steppe lands	grasslands and shrub lands	55
7224468782	Decentralized administration	system of government that shares power over multiple regions with co leaders	56
7224468783	Royal Courts	a court that dealt with all land disputes and some felonies	57
7224468784	cowrie shells	Imported from the Maldives, they served as the medium of exchange in West Africa	58
7224468785	Ancestor Veneration	Worship and respect for ancestors	59
7224468786	Obsidian	volcanic glass	60
7224468787	Maize	corn	61
7224468788	Bering Land Bridge	Former ice age link between Siberia and Alaska.	62
7224468789	ceremonial center	an area used for religious ceremonies by the ancient people of the Americas	63
7224468790	Authoritarian terraces	a type of land scaping the improves farming	64
7224468791	bloodletting rituals	men and women cut themselves and bled to appease their gods	65
7224468792	double-hulled canoes	canoes with two waterproof layers	66
7224468793	Olmec ball games	ball game in which losers are executed	67
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