Sal DeLuca

Cultural Diffusion - The spreading of ones culture
Neolithic Revolution - The start of agriculture
Slash and Burn Farming - The cutting and burning of forests to create fields for agriculture
Domestication - Adaptation to intimate association with human beings
Civilization - The most advanced stage of human social development and organization
Specialization - Making something suitable for a special purpose
Artisan - A worker in a skilled trade or one that involves making things by himself
Scribe - a person who serves as a copyist, one who made copies of manuscripts before the invention of printing
Bronze Age - Age of weapons and tools made of bronze
Mesopotamia - An ancient region of southwestern Asia in present-day Iraq
Cuneiform - Writing made of wedge shaped characters
Ziggurat - A rectangular stepped tower, usually used for religion
Fertile Crescent - Area in the middle east, with fertile soil between the tigris and euphrates
City-state - A state consisting of a sovereign city
Dynasty - A succession of people from the same family who play a prominent role in a certain field
Polytheism - The belief in or worship of more than one god
Hammurabi - Sixth king of Babylonia
Empire - An extensive group of states or countries under a single supreme authority
Pharaoh - A ruler in ancient Egypt
Theocracy - A system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god
Pyramid - Trianglar shaped building in ancient times
Mummification - A condition resembling that of a mummy
Hieroglyphics - Enigmatic or incomprehensible symbols or writing
Papyrus - Ancient form of paper
Rosetta Stone - An inscribed stone found near Rosetta on the western mouth of the Nile
Subcontinent - A large, distinguishable part of a continent
Harappa - Ancient city in northen Pakistan
Mohenjo-Daro - A ruined prehistoric city of Pakistan in the Indus River valley
Loess - A loosely compacted yellowish-gray deposit of windblown sediment
Mandate of Heaven - Postulates that heaven would bless the authority of a just ruler
Dynastic Cycle - An important political theory in the Chinese history