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19 Cards in this Set
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What is the name of the battle that included Athens and Persia with Athens winning and sending a messenger back?
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Battle of Marathon
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Name three famous philosophers.
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Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle
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This river valley civilization created the wheel and the plow:
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Mesopotamia
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This ethnical/religious system put a great weight on family:
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Confucius
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These human-made objects such as tools are called:
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Artifacts
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This harsh set of laws is called:
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Hammurhabi Code
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This system of writing was developed in Mesopotamia:
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Cuneiform
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Otherwise known as Siddhartha Gautama:
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Buddha
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Chinese empire that built a wall to keep out invaders:
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Qin
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A ziggurat is a pyramid-like river built by what river?
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Mesopotamia
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This group in Greece preserved and spread Mesopotamia:
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Micenians
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Who wrote the book "Elements"?
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Euclid
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This Hellenistic thinker created a system that moved out from lower to higher water:
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Arcamides
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An Egyptian leader is called a what?
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A pharaoh.
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This empire is very harsh and cruel:
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Assyrians
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When a religion has more than one deity, it is what?
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Polytheistic
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Good/bad deeds bring to reincarnation:
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Karma
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The Persians allowed these to return to their homeland:
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Israelites
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Demonstanies tried to warn people in Greece about whom?
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King Philip the Second
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