| A | B |
|---|
| PALEOLITHIC | the “Old Stone Age” |
| NOMAD | people who moved from place to place in search of food |
| NEOLITHIC | a prehistoric period that lasted from 8000 B.C.E. to 3000 B.C.E during which people began to live in permanent settlements |
| CULTURAL DIFFUSION | the exchange of ideas |
| FERTILE CRESCENT | a crescent shaped region of good farmland created by the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers |
| POLYTHEISTIC | belief in many gods |
| ARABLE | land that is able to support the growing of crops |
| PHARAOH | a king of Ancient Egypt |
| THEOCRACY | a government in which the ruler is considered to be a divine/holy figure |
| HIEROGLYPHICS | an Ancient Egyptian writing system in which pictures were used to represent ideas and sounds |
| REVOLUTION | a sudden |
| EMPIRE | group of states or territories governed by ONE ruler |
| ETHNOCENTRIC | a belief in the superiority of a certain ethnic group or race |
| CUNEIFORM | a system of writing with wedge shaped symbols invented by the Sumerians around 3000 B.C.E. |
| CODE of HAMMURABI | a set of 282 written laws written by King Hammurabi; rules for members of Babylon’s society to live by |
| ZIGGURAT | a tiered |
| HARRAPA | a sophisticated city that arose along the Indus River as early as 7000 B.C.E. |
| MONSOON | a damaging seasonal wind that shifts in direction only at certain times of the year |
| DYNASTY | a ruling family in China |
| MIDDLE KINGDOM | early Chinese belief that their culture was the center of the earth. This occurred because they had little interaction with other cultures |
