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129 Cards in this Set
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What does agriculture need to survive?
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Water
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Definition of history
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Scholarly discipline
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what is a historian?
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a scholar who reconstructs the past to make it relevant today/ show its impact on todays world
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History Can Be
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Intuitive or imperical
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Intuitive history
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artistic and creative - interpretive thesis always arguable
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Imperical History
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Based on facts (who did what? When? Where?)
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Two types of history
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Pre post modern and Post modern
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Pre Post Modern History
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Speculative "it was this way"
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Pre Post Modern History is...
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1-Cyclical~what goes around comes around
2-Progressive~history will get better 3-Providincial~Creationism- intelligent design-god acting in history- |
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Post Modern History
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analytical "perhaps this way"
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Culture
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extrasomatic means of adaption passed on from generation to generation. Parents and society teach children.
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Social
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race,class,gender:men vs women ~ upper class vs lower class
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Civilization
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latin word that refers to a citizen a part of a group
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State
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Organized society distinct geographical border Shared values; concentrated effort
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Law
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Government conduct
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why was agriculture needed?
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"you have to eat every day"
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Prehistory
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Anthropology
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Great Rift Vally
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Humanoid bones 2-4 million years old
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Paleolithic
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30,000 - 8,000 BCE stone tools
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Neolithic Era
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8,000- 3,000 BCE
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BCE
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before the common/christian Era
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CE
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common era
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Paleolithic
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Wanderers
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Neolithic
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Starting to settle down
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Neolithic Era they began to do what?
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Raise animals Grow grains
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Where did the neolithic people settle?
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By rivers
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What is the main food source of the people?
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Grain
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Mesopotamia
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"The land between the rivers"
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What two rivers is Mesopotamia located between?
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Tigris and Euphrates
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Mesopotamia is prone to flood True or false?
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True
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How was mesopotamia ruled?
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People were rule oriented and strict
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What is the main river in Egypt?
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The Nile
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Nile river is...
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Steady predictable and fertile
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What is the main river in India?
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Indus
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What two peoples settled on the Indus river?
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Harrapan and Gandas Cultures
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What are the two major rivers in China?
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Yellow and Yangtze
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What crops are raised on the banks of the yellow river?
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Millet and Wheat
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What crops are raised on the Yangtze river?
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Rice
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The yellow river is...
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in northern china, flat and cool, unpredictable
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The Yangtze river is...
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in central china, warmer
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Origin and evolution of writing
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Pictographs~Ideograms~Phonetic~Cuniform
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Cuniform is...
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Wedge shaped
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Epic of Gilgamesh has...
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Cultural values
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Ninkasaki
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Goddess of beer
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Ninkasaki's hymn
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holds recipie for beer
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What did fritz maytag do?
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began anchor brewing company(1990) came up with nikasaki beer
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What did the government give people grant money for?
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to answer the question which came first beer or bread?
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What are the benifits of fermentation?
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Decreased levels of tannins(acids)
Increases level of B vitamins Increased level of protiens |
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What are the percentages of protiens nad beer?
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8-20% in beer and only 3% in bread
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What is alchohol?
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Aspetic(Kills germs)
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Gilgamesh
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A whole collection of myths
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Myth
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pre scientific explanation
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What is the theory on Utnapishtam?
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He is noah
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A Myth is a story with a what?
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Moral
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Enlil
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God that created the great flood
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Anthropomorphic
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man like shape or personality (had the same personality as a human but never died)
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Gilgamesh's destiny is...
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That his memory will live forever not him
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Mina =
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60 sheckles
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Womens role...
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prepared food and owned taverns
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Treason was not accepted even when what?
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Drunk
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What did fritz maytag do?
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began anchor brewing company(1990) came up with nikasaki beer
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What did the government give people grant money for?
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to answer the question which came first beer or bread?
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What are the benifits of fermentation?
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Decreased levels of toxins(acids)
Increases level of B vitamins Increased level of protiens |
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What are the percentages of protiens nad beer?
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8-20% in beer and only 3% in bread
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What is alchohol?
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Aspetic(Kills germs)
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Gilgamesh
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A whole collection of myths
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Myth
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pre scientific explanation
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What is the theory on Utnapishtam?
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He is noah
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A Myth is a story with a what?
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Moral
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Enlil
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God that created the great flood
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Anthropomorphic
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man like shape or personality (had the same personality as a human but never died)
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Gilgamesh's destiny is...
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That his memory will live forever not him
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Mina =
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60 sheckles
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Womens role...
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prepared food and owned taverns
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Treason was not accepted even when what?
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Drunk
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Man can divorce woman but
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Woman cant divorce man
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an eye for an eye but...
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only between equals
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Surplus agriculture is the key to what?
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diversity and organization
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Development of sophisticated skills...
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such as building writing and the arts
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Pictograph
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picture that represents a word
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Cuniform
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wedge shaped earliest form of somatic writing ~ makes a transition from ideogram to phonetic
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Phonetic
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sign represents a sound
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ideogram
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Sign that represents an idea
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Star
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always symbolizes a god or godess
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Indo
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European Migrations
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Harrapan Civilization
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c. 2300-1900 BCE
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Vedic Age
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C.1500-500 BCE
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4 varna
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Brahmin
Kshatriya Valsha Shudra |
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Harrapan Civilization is pre....
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Aryan
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Mohenjo-Daro
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500,000 sq. miles
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Uniform sized bricks show...
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order, mass production
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Cities had what?
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Underground sewers
Toilets Grainery |
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Swastica
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"Good Fortune"
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Tree & fire
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Worshiped
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Fire stood for
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Sacrifice
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Water stood for
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Cleansing
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Vedic Age
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C. 1500-500 BCE
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Vedas
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Collection of indian hymns, ritual texts and philisophical treatises
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Rig Veda
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Earliest of the vedas Aryan tales of glorius military campaigns
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13 chapters of the Mahabharata is called
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the Bhagavad-Gita (Gita)
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Upanishads transitional text fom Branminism to
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Hinduism
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Iron
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C. 1000 BCE
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Iron supplys warriors with
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superiority over bronze weapons
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Gita
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War between two families
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Arjunals
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Charioteeris
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Mouth
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Brahmin~Priests and scribes
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Varna
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Color
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Arms
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Kshariya~Warriors
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Thighs
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Vaisha~Merchants
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Feet
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Shudra~farmers
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Caste
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vocation
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dasa
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black~the outcasts
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Aryan
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Ireland Iran "Noble ones" ~ warriors
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World Spirit
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Brahman
Vishnu Shiva Krishna |
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Axial Age India
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c. 500 BCE
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Brahmanism reforms into Hinduism as a reaction to ______
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Buhdism and Jainism
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Hinduism
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the major relegion in india today
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Buddhism
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Siddhartha Guatamo
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Janiam
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Magavira
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Axial Age turned away from
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mythological to more rational ones
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Pyramids built in
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the old kingdom period 2660-1800 BCE
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New Kingdom
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1570- 1075 BCE
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New kingdom was the
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age of the empire
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Indo-European
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Ireland to india
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Hebrew
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God acts in human affairs
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Hapira
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Nomads, wanderes, not citified
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Abraham
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Compared to Ur- rejected polytheism
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Abraham was
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the worlds first monotheist
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Abraham had a covenant with God...
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"Circumsize your son and i will make you father of many nations"
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