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40 Cards in this Set
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What is the time period of the Ancient World?
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5,000 BC, until the fall of the Roman Empire in 476 AD
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What is the time period of the Middle Ages?
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476 to 1492 AD
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What is the time period of the Modern World?
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1492 to present
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What four river valleys are known as the "cradles of civilization"?
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Nile in Egypt, Tigris-Euphrates in the Middle East, Indus in what is now Pakistan, and Hwang Ho(Yellow River) in China
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Why did civilizations initially develope along rivers?
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fertile and allowed a large amount of food to be grown, rivers let the civilizations transport their goods cheaply
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How did the Sumerians first develop writing?
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poking sharp reeds into clay
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What is a Ziggurats?
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sumerian temples to the gods, made of bricks (mud mixed with straw)
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Where was the earliest evidence of a wheeled vehicle found?
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sumerian ruins
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At about 2000 BC invaders from the Syrian desert conquered both Sumer and its sister state Akkad. They merged this conquered territory to form?
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Babylon
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Sumer was located along what rivers?
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Tigris and Euphrates rivers
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Babylon is most famous for?
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King Hammurabi (1728-1686 BC)
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Hammurabis Code
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recognized three classes of people, the rich land owners, the other freemen who might own a small amount of land or property, and the slaves
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Who developed standard weights and mesures to facilitate trade?
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Babylonians
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Who produced the first great work of Western Literature, the Jewish Torah and the Old Testament of the Christian Bible?
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Hebrews
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Assyrians specialized in?
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warfare, they invented the iron-capped rams to break walls.
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Who conquered the Persian empire?
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Alexander the Great
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What empire was the first to build a seafaring trade empire along the Meditrranean Sea?
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Phoenicians
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What was the first civilization in Europe?
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Greece
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The Peloponnesian war was fought between whom?
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Sparta and Athens
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Although Greece once ruled the known world, their civilization declined, mainly because of?
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a series of wars (infighting) left them vulneralbe to a stronger invader-the Romans
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The Roman government was divided into what two branches
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patricians and plebians
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The populations of the cradles of civilization were primariy?
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farmers
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The process by which one civilization shares knowledge and ideas with another civilization is called?
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cultural diffusion
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Ancient Greece was primarily a?
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number of independent city-states
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Socrates, Plat, and Aristotle are noted primarily for their contribution in the field of?
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philosophy
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The most important contribution made by the Romans to Western civilizaion was?
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their political system, with its influence on law and politics
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What caused explosive growth in the Christian religion during the 4h century?
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the emperors who made it the state religion of the Roman Empire
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Constantinople became the center of?
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The Byzantine culture
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The deurbanization which took place during the decline of the Roman Empire resulted in?
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an agrarian society during the Middle Ages
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The Dark Ages has often been applied to the first half and sometimes the whole period of?
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The Middle Ages
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What is the highest class in Indias's society?
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Brahmans (priests and scholars)
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A husband who has more than one wife is following what pattern?
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polygyny (one husband several wives.
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The purpose of a fair trade law is what?
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to allow producers to set minimum sales prices for their items and reduce the likelihood of price wars
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Cultural lag examines what?
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rates of change within a society
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The collective effort of envioronmentalists to influence society's values and actions concerning the physical world would be considered what?
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social movement
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True or False. Deviance can have positive effects.
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True
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In, psychology, empirical studies would depend primarily on what?
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direct observation and logical reasoning
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Merril-Lynch is "bullish on America" suggests what?
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a bull is a person who expects that prices will rise and so buys with the hopes of selling at a future date to make a profit
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What group would be most likely to investigate physiological changes in an organism?
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behaviorists
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What is thought to be the ancestor of modern gorillas and chimpanzees?
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the proconsul group
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