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Paleolithic: Nomads, Hunter Gatherer

Neolithic: The New Stone Age, Age of settling

Nomads: no permanent settlement, hunter gatherer

Lucy: First full skeleton found

Mesopotamia: A region in Southwest Asia spanning from the rivers Euphrates and Tigris that is the site of one of the most ancient civilizations in the history of man.

Code of Hammurabi: Set of harsh written laws

Ziggurat: A temple tower of the ancient Mesopotamian valley, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories.

Pyramids: A set of ancient pyramidal-shaped constructions in Egypt

Harappa: ancient civilization

Mummification: The preserving of a dead body, by making it into a mummy.

Hieroglyphic: a writing system of ancient Egypt, Maya and other civilizations, using pictorial symbols to represent individual sounds as a rebus

cuneiform: An ancient Mesopotamian writing system, adapted within several language families, originating as pictograms in Sumer around the 30th century BC, evolving into more abstract and characteristic wedge shapes formed by a blunt reed stylus on clay tablets.

Huang He: A river of northern China which flows for 5,463 km (3,000 miles) to the Yellow Sea.

Reincarnation: A rebirth of a mental capacity, such as a soul, in a physical life form, such as a body

caste stystem: Social Ranking

Hinduism: A religion, philosophy and culture native to India, characterized by the belief in reincarnation and a supreme oneness personified in many forms and natures.

Brahman: A concept of Hinduism. Brahman is the unchanging, infinite, immanent, and transcendent reality which is the Divine Ground of all matter, energy, time, space, being, and everything beyond in this Universe. The nature of Brahman is described as transpersona

Islam: A monotheistic religion that originated with the teachings of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) having the same roots as Christianity and Judaism; its revelatory scripture is the Qur'an; its followers are Muslim.

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