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Grandson of Chandragupta Maurya. conquered realm of Kalina in 206BCE. rock&pillar edicts. ruled during peak of dynasty
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Ashoka Maurya
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High quality silk production was
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introduced to the Byzantine empire by 2 Christian monks
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Throughout most of history the Capital of Byzantine empire was
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Constantinople
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Caesaropapism refers to the fact that Byzantine emperors
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claimed divine favor and sanction
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T/F. Empress Theodora was the dominant politcal figure of her age, controlling the empire from behind the scenes
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Emperor Justininan is best remmbered for his
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codification of Roman law known as the Body of the Civil Law
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Under the theme system
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free peasants recieved allotments of land in exchange for military service
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battle of Keidon in 1014BCE was fought between
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Byzantium and the Bulgars
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T/F. An economic policy in the Bzyantium empire was preventing business partnerships to encourage individual investment.
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How did the spanish rabbi Benjamin of Tudela describe Constantinople?
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as the place with greatest entertainment
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After the 6th century, well educated Byzantines'
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read commentaries on Greek classics
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Emperor Leo reigned 717-741 launched a campaign of iconoclasm beacuse
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he thoguth veneration of religeous images was sinful almost like worship of physcial idols
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T/F. Byzantine monasteries were not centers of thought and learning
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in 1504CE, Byzantine patriarch and the pope of rome excommunicated each other beacuse of their disaggrements over matters of
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who had authority over thier jurisdiction
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From 11th century, serious domestic problems of Byzantine was
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decline of free peasantry in both number and prosperity
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The crusades launched by Western europeans in the 12th and 13th centuries were
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to recapture Jerusalem from Muslim control.
carved out states in parts of Byzantine empire sacked Constantinople strengthened economic positions in Mediterranean |
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people who brought down Byzantine empire were...
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Ottoman Turks
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How did Alexius I deal with Bogomil herectics?
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condemned them to death by crucification
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Princes of whcih city state establisehd caesaropapist control in Russian Orthodox Church?
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Kiev
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139 BCE chinese emperor dispatched Zhang Qian to central Asia to
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seek allies against the Xiongu
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Favorable conditons for long-distance trade during classical era was
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empires ruled over vast areas adn maintained good social order
under imperial rule, many roads and bridges were built Central Asia was pacified by campaigns of Han Wudi Ptolemies figured out monsoon system |
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monsoon winds in INdian Ocean
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tied southeast Asia, India, Arabia, and east Africa together in maritime trade route
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principle angents for spread of buddhism over silk roads were
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merhcants
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christian societies in Mesopotamia and Iran deeply influenced Christian practices in the Roman empire through thier
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ascetic values
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Mani, founder of Manicheism promoted a syncretic blend of
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Zoroastrianism, Christianity, adn Buddhism
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Manicheism promoted
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ascetic lifestyle, struggle between good and evil, individual salvation, strict moral code of behavior
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After dissolution of Han empire
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China was divided into 3 large kingdoms
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T/F. Threats of epicdemic diseases turned hte Chinse into Buddhism for personal salvation
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F
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T/F. before the Visigoths invaded Rome, they did not adopt official roman langage and social customs
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Huns contribute to fall of western Roman empire by
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pressing Germanic peopels into western Roman empire
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Emperor who allow Christians to pracitce faith openly for first time
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Constantine
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In the early Christian churhc the heirarchy
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had Bishops presiding over religeious affairs of diocese
bishop of Rome known as Pope 5 top religeous authorites church officials met in councils to resolve theological disputes |
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St.Cyprian's view abotu teh epidemic of 251BCE was that
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it was a welcome events for servants of God
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SIlk Roads after decline of Han and Roman empires
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had less activity but was revivied in 6th century CE
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Homer's Odyssey adn Illiad protrayed Greeks as
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expert and fearless seafarers
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Myceanaen and Minoan societies both
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built palaces
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By tyrants the Greeks meant
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ambitious politicians who gained power by irregular means
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In Spartan life
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boys were taken from paretns for military traiining
young married women did not live wtih husbands helots were unfree servants of the spartan state exercise for girls was encouraged to bear strong children |
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An Athenian political leader was
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Pericles
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In Athenian democracy
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all citizens were quallified to join the city councils
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Greeks found many colonies along shores of Medditerranean adn Black Sea because
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of population pressure
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Greek colonization did not
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disrupt commerce and trade
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Delian league was created to
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discourage further Persian invasions
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Peloppenisian War was fought between
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two groups of Greek adversaires under leaadership of Athens and Sparta
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Freedom and independence of Greek poleis fell under
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Phillip II by 338 BCE
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By 327 BCE Alenxander's troops refused to go any further than
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India
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The Alexandria of Egypt was not an
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original colony of Athens
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Greek penisula was
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ideal of cultivating olives and grapes
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Greek philopshy is rational because
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based on human reason
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Plato did not beleive that
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democracy could make the philospher king possible
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respected adn influential Hellenistic thinkers were
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Stoics
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Socrates view of death was
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no evil can happen to a good man either in lfie or in death
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Religeon in Hellenistic society
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possiblity of eternal bliss
Cult of Orisis belief in savior who dies and is resurrected faith spread along trade routes |
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Tribunes were officials elected to protect rights of
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plebians
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This led to assasination of Tiberius adn Gaius Gracchus
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their attempts at redistributing land
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66-70CE Romans fought war with
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Jews
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T/F Paul was a roman citizen
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Rome won 3 Punic wars against
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Carthaginians
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Sulla and Marius
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were generals in a civil war in 1st century BCE
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Historian Tacitus
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critizied peace of Augustus for toleration of corruption
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T/F Julius Caesar did not name himself first Roman emperor
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Year 600CE epidemic diseases caused Mediterranean and CHinese populations to fall by
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a quarter
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ST. Augustine
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tried to reconcile Christianity with Platonism
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after collapse of western Roman empire, imperial authority went to
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Byzantine
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Desert that means he who enters does not come back out
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Talklamakan
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Collapse in political order of Han empire Buddhism and Daoism
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became more popular
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Popes won supreme control over their church because
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their claim to be spiritural descendants of St Peter and their positions as bishops of original imperial capital of ROme
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Hinduism was spread
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by merhcants into Southeast Asia
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Byzantium emperors owed some fo their power to
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their leadership fo chruch affairs
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Justinians efforts to recoqnuer western Roman Empire was
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temporarily achieved
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Byzantium's major advantage was
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strategic positon on the Bosporous
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official language of Constantinople became
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Greek
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in effort to asnwer Arians Constantine rbought together elading churchmen at hte COucnil of
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Nicaea
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Russians began to think Moscow as
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third rome
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Justinian did not
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take back permanently what Goths had conquered in western EUrope
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mixture of secular and religeous authority
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caesaropapism
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mixture of secular and religeous authority
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caesaropapism
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mixture of secular and religeous authority
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caesaropapism
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Byzantium became mediterranean's leading producer of
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silk
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Byzantium became mediterranean's leading producer of
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silk
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Aryans maintained order by
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caste system
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Aryans maintained order by
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caste system
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Early indian literarture
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sets forth expectations that women must be subservient to men
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Early indian literarture
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sets forth expectations that women must be subservient to men
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Byzantium became mediterranean's leading producer of
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silk
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Dravidians contributed
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elements to a new mixed culture
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Aryans maintained order by
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caste system
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Dravidians contributed
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elements to a new mixed culture
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Early indian literarture
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sets forth expectations that women must be subservient to men
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distinctive Indian beleif was
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the rebirth of souls in new bodies
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distinctive Indian beleif was
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the rebirth of souls in new bodies
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Early Indian civilization that vanished
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Harrapan
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Early Indian civilization that vanished
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Harrapan
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Artifacts indicate that Harrapans traded wtih
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Mesopotamia
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Dravidians contributed
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elements to a new mixed culture
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Artifacts indicate that Harrapans traded wtih
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Mesopotamia
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distinctive Indian beleif was
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the rebirth of souls in new bodies
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Aryan religeon emphasised
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ritual sacrifices
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Early Indian civilization that vanished
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Harrapan
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Aryan religeon emphasised
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ritual sacrifices
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Indian writing originally oral
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Vedas
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Minoan civilization centered on
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Crete
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Indian writing originally oral
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Vedas
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Artifacts indicate that Harrapans traded wtih
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Mesopotamia
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Minoan civilization centered on
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Crete
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Aryan religeon emphasised
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ritual sacrifices
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Describe Greece before Alexander
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collection of diverse and indpendent poleis
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Describe Greece before Alexander
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collection of diverse and indpendent poleis
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who were afraid of upsrisings by serfs known as helots?
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Mycenaeans
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Indian writing originally oral
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Vedas
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Pelopennisan War fought between
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Greeks and Macedonians
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Minoan civilization centered on
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Crete
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who were afraid of upsrisings by serfs known as helots?
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Mycenaeans
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in an excerpt from an arrian on Alexander, the author
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defended and praised Alexander
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Pelopennisan War fought between
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Greeks and Macedonians
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in an excerpt from an arrian on Alexander, the author
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defended and praised Alexander
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Describe Greece before Alexander
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collection of diverse and indpendent poleis
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who were afraid of upsrisings by serfs known as helots?
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Mycenaeans
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Pelopennisan War fought between
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Greeks and Macedonians
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in an excerpt from an arrian on Alexander, the author
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defended and praised Alexander
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