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Define Polytheism
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The worshiping of Many Gods
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Define Civilization
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A complex highly organized social order with cities
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Define Cultural Diffusion
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Goods and ideas shared b/t people
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Archeology
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study of early people through physical remains
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Artifact
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Object made by human beings
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Empire
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Group of states or territories controlled by 1 ruler
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Nomad
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person who moves from place to place in order to fulfill their needs
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Artisan
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Skilled craft worker
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Geography
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Study of people, lives, and resources
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Technology
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Tools, and skills people use to meet their basic needs
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Religion, Music, Traditions, Clothing and foods are all aspects of what?
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Culture
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Who was the very first king of the very first Egyptian dynasty who also united upper and lower Egypt?
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Menes
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Silt
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The suspended materials in the water
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Delta
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Triangular "mouth" of a river
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Egypt has a ____+_____ climate (Fill in the blanks)
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Hot + Dry
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What is the Annual Innundation?
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The annual innundation is the yearly flood of the nile river
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What are cataracts, and how many does the Nile River have?
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Cataracts are waterfalls, and the Nile has 6
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What is located on/near one of the 6 cataracts, that was originally built by Ramses II?
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Abu Simbel
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What is the mouth of the Nile?
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The Mediterranian Sea
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Who was Herodotus?
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A greek historian who was considered the 1st historian
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Define Dynasty
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People of one family Ruling
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In relation to Egypt, what is one of the 7 wonders of the world, and when was it built?
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The Great Pyramid of Khufu at Giza, built in 2500b.c
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Who was King Tut?
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A pharoh that died at a very young age. His tomb was the only one found with almost all of its "riches" unrobbed
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What is bureacrat?
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Someone who works for the Government
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What substance would help to preserve a body in ancient Egypt?
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Natron
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When a body was mummified, where were the organs placed?
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In Canopic Jars
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What did the tops of the Canopic jars Represent?
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The tops of the Canopic jars represented gods
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What was the Rosetta Stone?
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The Rosetta stone had things written on it in three diferent languages, Heiroglyphics, demotic, Greek. It was what they used to deciper Heiroglyphics
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Who Deciphered the Rosetta stone?
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Champollion deciphered the rosetta stone
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What are Giant Sheets of ice more commonly known as?
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Glaciers
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Who was Howard Carver?
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Howard carver uncovered King Tut's tomb in 1922
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What does the root "potam" mean?
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The root means River
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Where was Sumer located in relation to Mesopotamia?
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Located towards the southern part of Mesopotamia
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How were writing systems Developed?
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_____ _____, were developed by things at hand
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What is a Monarchy?
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Rule by a King or Queen
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What is a theocracy?
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Rule by the People
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What is Debt Slavery?
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When you dont have enough money, you either sell your self into it, or your children into it, to get out of debt
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What is an Epic?
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A long narative poem
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What was the Previous economy of Egypt, and what was it next?
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Barter economy to a Money Economy
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What is a Money Economy?
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Instead of using goods to buy things, money was used
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The sumerians were the first to make what 3 things?
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Wheel/Wagon, the plow, and beer
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Sumerians tok one invention, to another level and made it another invention. What was it first, and what was it improved to be?
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First it was the wagon wheel, then it was improved on to make the pottery wheel
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Ciuneiform was the writing of what place?
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Egypt
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What shape is Ciuneiform, and what is used when writing?
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Wedge shaped, and a stylus is used
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What is bronze made out of??
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Copper and Tin
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What are ziggurats, and what is a description of one?
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Temples, with wide steps and a flat top
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Sumerians were the first to use the__?__
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Arch
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What was the Key Stone?
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The middle stone that keeps an arch together
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Sumerians based the math system on __?__
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60 minutes
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Sumerians stated that there are _____ degrees in a circle
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360
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Why does it seem like there is more sky in mesopotamia?
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In mesopotamia, it is more flat so therefore it seems as if there is more sky unlike places where its not as flat
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The sundial was invented by the _____?
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Sumerians
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What does proliferation mean?
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To grow
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What did mesopotamians write on?
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Clay Slabs
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How in one way, was the burning of ancient cities good for archeologists today?
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When cities were burned, the clay slabes were baked, and pices could then be found by modern day archeologists
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What is a law?
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An extremely enforced rule for people to follow
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What is a Rule?
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Something to keep things in order in a city or a town.
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What was the date of Hammurabi?
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1790b.c
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What is the Code of Hammurabi?
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The first ever set of law codes
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Who was Sargon?
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The First empire builder
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How many laws were contained in the Code of Hammurabi?
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282 laws
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What do Criminal Laws have to do with?
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Theft, Murder, assult
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What do Civil laws have to do with?
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Inheritance, marriage, divorce, and taxes
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Under Hammurabi's code, what was expected of women?
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Women were expected to live in her husbands home and to be dependent on him
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What is Stenography?
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A shorthand way of writing
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What does "gadded" mean?
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Wondering around from place to place in search of pleasure and entertainment
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King Assurbanipal founded one of the first what?
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Libraries
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For 500 years, the Assyrians terrorized what two places?
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Babylon and the Fertile Crescent region
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What was the capital of the Assyrians?
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Nineveh
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What was the major thing the assirians were known for?
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They had the most efficient and powerfull army. They awere the cruelest of all people
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Who conquered the Assyrians?
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The Chaldeans
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When did the Chaldeans conquer the assyrians?
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In 612 b.c
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What was the capitol of the Hittites?
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Hattusas
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What were the dates of the Hittites?
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2000- 950 bc
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The Hittites were the first to do what?
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To smelt Iron and make wa pons (otherwise known as the "Iron Age")
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What were lyons always associated with?
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Royalty
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What were the dates of the Phoenecians?
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1400-400 bc
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The Phoenicians came up with 22 ___?___ in the alphabet
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Consonants
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The phoenicians were the greatest what?
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Sailors/Traders
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The phoenicians came up with the dye called..?
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Tyrian purple
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