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36 Cards in this Set
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a large town and surrounding area that has its own government and ruler
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city-state
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type of government that is ruled by a king
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monarchy
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what number was the Sumerians system of counting based on?
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60
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who received a formal education in mesopotamia
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upper class boys
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geography is important to world history because it
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lets us see connections between people, places and events
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the gradual assertion of peoples ability to control nature, what one generation thinks about the past and the story of mankind is all
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history
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a peoples way of being knowing and doing is
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culture
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as a result of the agricultural revolution some people
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established farming villages
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the religious beliefs of most civilizations were typically
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polytheistic
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trade between different people resulted mainly in
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spread of ideas
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sumerians influenced later civilizations through all of the following except: law codes, architecture, geometry and cuneiform
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law codes
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the first civilization developed in
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mesopotamia
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the fertile crescent is located in present day
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iraq
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this group conquered the peoples of mesopotamia and instituted a relocation plan forcing them to movie out of their homeland
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assyrians
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the assyrians were known for
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establishing an efficient system of government
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this policy helped the persians become a powerful empire
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they built the great royal road
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one contribution the lydians made to later civilizations was
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the use of coined money
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the neo-babylonian priests studied the stars and the planets in order to
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predict the future
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phoenicians were also referred to as the
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carriers of civilization
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a system where goods and services are exchanged us called
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a barter system
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the alphabet we use today is modeled after an alphabet that was first developed by the
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phoenicians
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abraham is believed to have been born in the city-state in mesopotamia
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the word cuneiform comes from the latin word cuneus which means
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wedge
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if you speak a language related to hebrew or arabic your are considered to be
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semetic
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the first iron workers were the
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hittites
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the sumerian gods were
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anthropomorphic
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was frequently run over by invaders
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mesopotamia
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a government led by priests is a
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theocracy
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we can learn alot about a culture by examining their
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laws
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culture is not (static, ever changing)
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static
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the fertile crescent lies between the
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tigris and euphrates rivers
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used as a sumerian temple
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ziggurat
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built the first library
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syrians
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built by king nebuchadnezzar for his homesick wife for her native menes
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hanging gardens of babylon
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the lydians (did, did not) rule an empire
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did not
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the capital of the assyrian empire
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nineveh
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