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25 Cards in this Set
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Dynasty |
Government that rules all of Egypt |
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Pharoah |
Great house of the king |
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Hatshesput |
Woman pharoah in the late 1400s b.c. first ever |
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Valley of the Kings |
Where a bunch of pharaohs are buried in there own pyramids and temples |
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Mummies |
Decay via embalming |
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Hieroglyphics |
Ancient Egyptians system of writing |
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Fertile crescent |
Middle east. Area went from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian golf |
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Mesopotamia |
Eastern part of the fertile Cresent |
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City states |
City and the surrounding land, and each was ruled by a king |
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Cuneiform |
System of writing with like pushing with stylists in clay |
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Gilgamesh |
Legendary character written by the sumeria before 1800 b.c. |
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Babylon |
Sargons empire was taken over and founded the city |
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Hammurabi |
One of the greatest leaders to reside in the babalonian in Mesopotamia |
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Hummarabis code |
Collection of laws developed in the 1700's b.c. and dealt with most aspects of daily life |
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Monotheism |
The belief in one all powerful god |
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Israelites |
Another people that lived within the fertile crescent believed in concept of monotheism |
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Ten commandments |
Used in Jewish and Christian religions |
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Diaspora |
Greek word meaning scattered |
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Hittites |
First to use weapons made of iron, and eventually extended their kingdom by taking over Syria and Mesopotamia. Empire lasted about 80 years |
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Assyrians |
Came after the hittites. 650 b.c. became the most deadly fighting force in the middle east |
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Chaldeans |
People that destroyed the assyrians empire |
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Hanging gardens of Babylon |
One of the seven wonders of the ancient world |
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Cyrus ll |
Seized Babylon and eventually the rest of the chaldeans empire |
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Darius l |
Ruled Persia from 522 b.c. to 486 b.c. |
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Zoroaster |
A Persian prophet, preached that the universe was divided by a struggle between good and evil |
