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20 Cards in this Set
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A record of the past.
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History
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History of humankind in the period before recorded history.
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Prehistory
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The skeletal remains of a female hominid, Australopithecus aphaeresis, found in Tanzania in 1974 and dated at about 3 million years old.
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Lucy
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The earliest known period of human culture, characterized by the use of stone tools.
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Stone Age
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Occurred 10,000 years ago. People stopped hunting and gathering food and began to grow crops and domesticate animals.
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Agricultural Revolution
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To convert (animals, plants, etc.) to domestic uses or to tame.
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Domestication
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Tools and equipment made through scientific discoveries that make people's lives easier and more efficent.
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Technology
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A place of worship and religious devotion.
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Shrine
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An advanced state of human society, in which a high level of culture, science, industry, and government has been reached.
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Civilization
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A professional record keeper or a copier of documents.
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Scribe
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A period in the history of humankind, following the Stone Age and preceding the Iron Age, during which bronze weapons and implements were used.
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Bronze Age
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A Mesopotamian terraced (or step) pyramid in which each terrace is smaller than the one below it.
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Ziggurat
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The worship of or belief in more than one god.
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Polytheistic
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A Sumerian system of writing, in which wedge-shaped symbols were used.
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Cuneiform
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A Babylonian legal code of the 18th century B.C. or earlier, created by Hammurabi and dealing with criminal and civil matters. "An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth".
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Code of Hammurabi
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A government ruled by a religious leader.
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Theocracy
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Build by the Egyptians as a tomb for their Pharaohs.
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Pyramid
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A writing system in which pictures and symbols are used to represent words and sounds.
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Hieroglyphics
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A tablet writing in Greek and in Egyptian hieroglyphic and demotic scripts that provided the key to the deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphics.
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Rosetta Stone
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The first of the great Biblical patriarchs, father of Isaac, and traditional founder of the ancient Hebrew nation: considered by Muslims an ancestor of the Arab peoples through his son Ishmael.
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Abraham
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