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40 Cards in this Set
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Sargon of Akkad
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a conqueror who's army came from Akkad; a city-state north of Sumer
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Semetic
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people who speak a language related to Arabic and Hebrew
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empire
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something that brings together several peoples, nations, or states under the control of one ruler
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Amorities
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nomadic warriors
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Hammurabi
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a king during the time 1792-1750 BC
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Hammurabi's Code
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a code that lists 282 specific laws dealing with everything that affected the community
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Babylonian Empire
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the Sumerians capital on the Euphrates River that reached its peak during the reign of Hammurabi
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Indo-European
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a group of seminomadic peoples who came from the steppes
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Steppes
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dry grasslands that streched north of the caucasus
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migration
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movement of a people from one region to another
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Hittites
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one group of Indo-European speakers
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Anatolia
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a huge peninsula in modern-day Turkey that juts out into the Black and Mediterranean Seas
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Hittite Empire
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Hittite city-states came together to form an empire in about 1650 BC
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Assyria
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a group that had a large empire(place, civilization)
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Sennacherib
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one of the Assyrian kings
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Nineveh
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Assyria's capital that was along the Tigris River
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Ashurbanipal
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a king who was able to read many different languages
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Medes
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an enemy army
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Chaldeans
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an enemy army
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Nebuchadnezzar
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a Chaldean king who restored Babylon
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Zoroaster
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a religious reformer from the Persian empire
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Ahura Mazda
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the god of truth and light
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Ahriman
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the god of evil and darkness
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Avesta
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a collection of books that became the holy writing of the Zoroastrian religion
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palestine
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a region at the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea
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Canaan
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the ancient home of the Hebrews
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Torah
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the most sacred writings in the Hebrew religion
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Abraham
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the father of the Hebrew people (appointed by god)
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monotheism
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the belief in a single god
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covenant
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the mutual promise between God and the founder of the Jewish people
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Moses
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the man who led the Hebrews out of slavery
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Ten Commandments
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the basis for the civil and religious law of Judaism
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Mount Sinai
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the top of a mountain where Moses went to pray and received the Ten Commandments
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Ethical Monotheism
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the emphasis on right conduct and the worship of one god
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Israel
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the new kingdom
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Judah
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the southern part of the kingdom
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tribute
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peace money paid by a weaker power to a stronger one
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Soloman's temple
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used to be a permanent home for the Ark of Covenant, which contained the tablets of Moses' law
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second temple
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king Cyrus allowed 40,000 exiles to return to Jerusalem and rebuild Soloman's temple
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diaspora
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the dispersal of the Jews
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