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25 Cards in this Set
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Epic of Gilgamesh
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epic poem from Ancient Mesopotamia and is among the earliest known works of literary fiction
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irrigation
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artificial application of water to the soil usually for assisting in growing crops; systems first developed in Mesopotamia allowing them to develop the arid areas
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Sargon of Akkad
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Akkadian king famous for conquest of the Sumerian city-states
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Hammurabi's Codes/Laws
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law codes from ancient Babylon, created ca. 1760 BC
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stele
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stone or wooden slab, generally taller than it is wide, erected for funerary or commemorative purposes, most usually decorated with the names and titles of the deceased or living
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Assyrians
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ethnic group whose origins lie in what is today Iraq, Iran, Turkey and Syria
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economic specialization
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labor specialization began with the combination of tin and copper into bronze individuals began to focus on specific areas of craftsmanship
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stratified patriarchal society
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social, economic, and political power lay in the hands of the males thus forming a patriarchal society
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commoner, dependant, slave
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lower classes were commoners and slaves with an intermediary class ie. the dependent clients who owned no property but were slaves
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cuneiform
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Sumerian-made first form of written expression
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Moses
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13th century BCE[1] Biblical Hebrew religious leader, lawgiver, prophet, and military leader, to whom the authorship of the Torah is traditionally attributed
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polytheism
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multiple gods
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Semitic
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first used to refer to a language family of largely Middle Eastern origin
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city-state
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region controlled exclusively by a city, usually having sovereignty
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empire
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state that extends dominion over populations distinct culturally and ethnically from the culture/ethnicity at the center of power
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Hammurabi
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sixth king of Babylon
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Indo-Europeans
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original people that historically spoke Indo-European languages
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Hittites
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ancient people in Anatolia who spoke an Indo-European language, and established a kingdom centered at Hattusha
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Hanging Gardens of Babylon
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built by Nebuchadnezzar II around 600 BC. He is reported to have constructed the gardens to please his wife, Amytis of Media. They were destroyed by earthquakes.
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bronze and iron metallurgy
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the working of bronze and iron into tools and weapons
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pastoral nomads
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communities of people that move from one place to another, rather than settling down in one location
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Hebrews, Israelites, Jews
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the Ibri people, known in the Middle East for their place of origin relative to the major culture of the time;English name for the nation of Israel who were the dominant cultural and ethnic group living in the southern Levant;member of the Jewish people, an ethnoreligious group originating in the Israelites or Hebrews of the ancient Middle East
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Abraham
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Jewish, Christian, and Muslim beliefs dictate him as the founding patriarch of the Israelites, Ishmaelites and Edomite peoples
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monotheism
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meaning a single god
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Phoenicians
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civilization with an enterprising maritime trading culture that spread across the Mediterranean between the period of 1200 BC to 900 BC
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