Identify and explain the significance of each item below.

civilization (p. 5)

Paleolithic era (p. 6)

Neolithic era (p. 6)

Fertile Crescent (p. 7)

pastoralism (p. 8)

patriarchy (p. 9)

Bronze Age (p. 11)

polytheism (p. 11)

cuneiform (p. 13)

Hammurabi’s law code (p. 18)

pharaoh (p. 21)

ma’at (p. 21)

Book of the Dead (p. 22)