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| 8745376584 | hunter-gatherers | nomadic groups whose food supply depends on hunting animals and collecting plant foods | 0 | |
| 8745376585 | River Valley Civilizations | The first civilizations mostly sprang up alongside the banks of major rivers. | 1 | |
| 8745376586 | Hammurabi's Code | first written code/set of laws that all were expected to obey. | 2 | |
| 8745376587 | Caste System | a social structure in which classes are determined by heredity | 3 | |
| 8745376588 | Justinian's Code | code of law; created by Justinian | 4 | |
| 8745376589 | Greek Politics | city-states | 5 | |
| 8745376590 | Bureaucracy | A system of managing government through departments run by appointed officials | 6 | |
| 8745376591 | footbinding | Process of wrapping young girls feet to stop growth, led to crppiling women for life | 7 | |
| 8745376592 | European absolutism | the theory that the monarch is supreme snd can exercose full and complete power | 8 | |
| 8745376593 | Mercantilism | belief in the benefits of profitable trading; commercialism. | 9 | |
| 8745376594 | Treaty of Tordesillas | set the boundary established in 1493 to define Spanish and Portuguese possessions in the Americas. | 10 | |
| 8745376595 | Battle of Lepanto | Turkish sea power was destroyed in 1571 by a league of Christian nations organized by the Pope | 11 |