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78 Cards in this Set
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alluvium
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soil deposited by water
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arabian desert
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border of mesopotamia
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aram naharaim
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aram of the two rivers - hebrew/OT name of mesopotamia
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ararat
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mountain at the northwestern zagros range rises to 16,000 associated with noah and the flood
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assyria
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nation/empire whose home base was upper mesopotamia. assyria destroyed samaria and isreal
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balaam
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mesopotamian diviner hired to balak to curse isrealites
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canals
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man-made rivers dug so that the region between the tigris and euphrates could be irrigated and farmed
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cuniform
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wedge shaped form of pictographic writing developed by the peoples
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cyrus
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emporer of persia who captured mesopotamia in 539 bc allowed jews to return to jerusalem to rebuild the temple
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enuma elish
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babylonian creation story
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euprates
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"the river" slow moving river
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fertile crescent
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descriptive name given to the region which begins in sountheastern mesopotamia, curves in the northwesterly direction
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haman
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official during the persian period who sought to destoy all jews
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hammurabi
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babylonian king who united mesopotamia "the code of hammurabi"
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hepatoscopy
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inspection or "reading" of the livers of sacrificial animals. goal=determine the will of the gods for the king
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idyah
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desert winds, storms that hit mesopotamis, expected around the spring and autumn equinox
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jacob
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patriarch who fled to upper mesopotamia -marrying rachel and leah
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mesopotamia
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"between the rivers"
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ninevah
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capital of assyria,
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pur
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"sacred dice" used to determine the willof the gods
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feast of purim
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annual jewish celebration of the victory over their enemies
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rainfall
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mesop. usaully less than 8" per year
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seleucids
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greek ruling family from mesopotamia who captured judea from the ptolemies
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shatt el arab
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swampy region to the southeast of meso.
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sundried adobe bricks
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common building material used in mesopotamia
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transhumance herders
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shepherds who move their flocks to mountains in summer
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abrahams hometown in lower mesop.
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zagros
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mountain ranges
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ziggurat
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man made mountains of adobe bricks on whish the peoples of mesop built temples
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anthropologist
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a social scientist seeking to discover info about a current people-group in another culture
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archeologist
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anthropologist seeking to diescover info about peeps who no longer live
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archaeology
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scientific study of the material remains of past human life
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artifacts
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anything made used by humans found on a dig
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ashlar blocks
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stones used in building that are cut from a quarry
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balk
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a meter wide wall left by the archeolgist while digging
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transhumance herders
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shepherds who move their flocks to mountains in summer
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abrahams hometown in lower mesop.
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zagros
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mountain ranges
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ziggurat
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man made mountains of adobe bricks on whish the peoples of mesop built temples
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anthropologist
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a social scientist seeking to discover info about a current people-group in another culture
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archeologist
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anthropologist seeking to diescover info about peeps who no longer live
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archaeology
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scientific study of the material remains of past human life
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artifacts
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anything made used by humans found on a dig
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ashlar blocks
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stones used in building that are cut from a quarry
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balk
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a meter wide wall left by the archeolgist while digging
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creation of the modern map
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work of eli smith and ed robinson
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field stones
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stones gathered and used in building, not quarried
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homonymy
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attempt to locate names working backwards from hebrew to greek
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medeba
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mosaic on floor of byzantine church
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stratigraphy
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arrangment of the layers for later analysis and interpretation
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stratum
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occupational layer identified of a change in color from above
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tel
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artificial hill made from previous life built over and over again
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3 kinds of archaeology
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topography, nautical, field excavation
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valley of the kings
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area west of the capital city of thebes where tombs were carved into the limestone cliffs
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upper egypt
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region south of modern day cairo to aswan between llimestone cliffs
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sphinx
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statue of a relining lion with a human head
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septuagint
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first translation of the hebrew OT into greek. first readers were jews who had moved to egypt after the babylonian exile
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sarcophagus
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"flesh eater" coffin
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sahara
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desert through wich the nile cuts its way northward to the medditeranean sea
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rosetta stone
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an inscription written in 3 languages, hierolgyphes, demotic, and ancient greek on a slab of basalt. in 1799df
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rainfall in egypt
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med.-7"
cairo-1" aswan-almost no rain |
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papyrus
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writing material made from reeds
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nile reiver
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longest in the world - 4160
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moses
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god's man chosen to lead the israelites out of egyptian bondage
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mitsraim
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hebrew/OT term used to identiry the land of egypt
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mary and joseph
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when herod the great sought to kill all oif the baby boys in bethlehem
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luxor/karnak/thebes
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on again/off again capital of egypt
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lower egypt
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delta from cairo north to meditteranean sea
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joseph
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jacob's son who was sold into slavery by his brothers, interpreted pharaoh's dreams saved his family by moving to goshen
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jeremiah
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israelite prophet forcibly taken to egypt by his peoiple after jerusalem was destroyed, there he died
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inundation
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season when the nile overflows ints banks and floods the farmers fields
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hierogyphics
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"sacred writing"
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goshen
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land of the eastern side of the nile delta assigned to jacab and his family by joseph
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giza
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site of the 3 famous pyramids and the shpinx on the western cliffs
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exodus
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israils miraculous exit from jesus
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emergence
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season when the nile recedes and the farmers plants grow and are harvested
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drought
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season when the nile is within its banks and the plants grow and are harvested
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cataract
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obstucion in the nile river caused by the slower erosion of harder rock, created rapids or waterfalls
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