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15 Cards in this Set
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Candragupta Maurya |
He’s the founder of the Maurya Empire and the first emperor to unify north and south west of present-day India into one state.(321-297 BCE)
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Asoka |
Known as “the Great.” Died 232 BC. King of Magadha (273–232) who united most of the Indian subcontinent under one rule and was converted to Buddhism, establishing it as the state religion.
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Metallurgy |
The branch of science and technology concerned with the properties of metals and their production and purification.
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Khufu |
Khufu was the most famous pharaoh of the old kingdom. He ruled in the 2500s BC. |
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Menes |
Menes wished to unify Upper and Lower Egypt. He came to power in 3100 BC. He did succeed in unifying them and also created the Double Crown
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Ramses the Great |
Ramses the Great came to power in 1200s BC. He was constantly fighting with the HIttites but eventually signed a peace treaty
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Laozi |
Laozi was a famous Daoist teacher and author of The Way and Its Power
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Shi Huangdi |
A legalist ruler of the Chinese Qin Dynasty.
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High Holy Days |
the Jewish holy days of Yom Kippur and Rosh Hashanah
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Talmud |
the body of Jewish civil and ceremonial law and legend comprising the Mishnah and the Gemara
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Passover |
the major Jewish spring festival that commemorates the liberation of the Israelites from Egyptian slavery, lasting seven or eight days from the 15th day of Nisan. |
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Zealots |
A person who is fanatical and uncompromising in pursuit of their religion, religion, or other ideas |
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dead sea scrolls |
The narrow sense of Qumran Cave Scrolls
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Inoculation |
the action of inoculating or of being inoculated; vaccination
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Indus |
a river in india
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