| A | B |
|---|
| Mesopatamia | Early civilization in modern Iraq |
| Fertile Cresecent | Between the Tigris and Euphrates River |
| Code of Hammurabi | Set of early laws |
| Sumer | City state in Mesopotamia |
| Shang Dynasty | Left the first written records in China |
| Zhou Dynasty | Created the idea of the Mandate of Heaven |
| Dynastic Cycle | rise and fall of family dynasties |
| Family | Important value in Chinese Society |
| Oracle Bones | Way to talk to the gods |
| Cuneiform | Earliest known writing |
| Loess | Fertile yellow silt |
| Huang He | Yellow River |
| Harappan Civilization | Early Indian society |
| Planned cities | Sewage systems, grid pattern streets, standard bricks |
| Monsoons | Seasonal winds in India |
| Rivers | Where most early civilizations settled |
| Irrigation ditches | How many civilizations farmed in the desert |
| Nomads | People who don't live in one place |
| Hunter-gatherers | Way nomads got food |
| Cro-Magnon | Early modern humans |
