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49 Cards in this Set
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What development led to the settlement of permanent communities?
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development of agriculture and domestication of animals
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What technique did Sumerians use to write?
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Cuneiform
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What does Mesopotamia mean?
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Land between the rivers
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Moses led his people out of Egypt across what?
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The Sinai Desert
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What did the Israelites form after Solomon died?
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The 10 northern groups split from the 2 southern groups. North was still called Israel while South was called Judah.
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Paleolithic period is also known as?
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Old Stone Age
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What is considered Hammurabi's greatest accomplishment?
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His effort to make justice appear in the land by instituting Hammurabi's code.
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Like many other ancient cities, Anyang was?
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Anyang was one of seven capital cities in China built under the Shang. A palace and temple stood at the center of the city and public buildings and homes of government officials circled the royal sanctuary.
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What is Egyptian writing called?
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Hieroglyphics
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Zoroaster preached that Ahura Mazda was?
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The god of all good.
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Which group of early hominid had the greatest technological and cultural change?
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Homo Sapiens
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What did the Israelites call their all-powerful god?
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Yahweh
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How does the Nile River flow?
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The Nile River flows northward.
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What is notable about Sparta?
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Great athletes and Olypmians; militaristic socity; women given more freedom; self-reliant and shunned the arts
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What is a public square in Greece called?
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agora
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Athens was defeated by whom during the Peloponnesian War?
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Sparta
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When could Spartan men retire?
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60
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Why is 461-429 BC known as the Golden Age in Greece
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Most Greek achievements in art and sciences took place in Athens during this time
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Mixture of Greek and Middle Eastern culture is called?
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Hellenistic
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Who was the Macedonian king who conquered Greece by 338 BC?
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King Philip II
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Who developed a code of conduct for doctors?
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Hippocrates
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Who founded the Christian Church in Rome?
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Peter
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Who made Christianity the official religion in Rome?
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Theodosius
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Caesar, Pompey, and Crassus made up a group called?
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The First Triumvirate
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What does Christos mean?
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Greek word for Messiah
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The study of physical and cultural characteristics of humans and their ancestors
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Anthropology
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Site where paleontologist Gen Suwa found one of the oldest hominid teeth ever found
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Aramis
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one of the main sources of ancient history in the Fertile Crescent
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Bible
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Moses led his people out of Egypt on an exodus across the Sinai Desert to the "promised land" which is also known as?
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Canaan
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a group of government officials headed by an administrator
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Bureaucracy
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a village in present day Turkey that dates from 7000-6300 BC It was one of the earliest villages to have agriculture.
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Catal Huyuk
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a loose alliance or union of several states or groups
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Confederation
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The way of life of a given people at a given time, including language, behavior, and beliefs
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Culture
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Narmer set up the first government the ruled all of Egypt. He governed both Upper and Lower Egypt from the capital city, named _______, near the border of the two kingdoms
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Memphis
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Belief in One God
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Monotheism
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seasonal winds that affect the climate and ways of life in Southern Asia
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monsoon
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a traditional story that explains natural events
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myth
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the shift from hunting and gathering to agricultural method of producing food
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Neolithic Revolution
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Assyrian Capital
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Nineveh
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created an alphabet with 22 characters
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Phoenicians
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modern scientific method for telling the age of once-living material by measuring the amount of radioactive carbon remaining in it
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radiocarbon dating
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stone that was used to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics by using the Greek text on the stone with the hieroglyphics
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Rosetta stone
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What type of government combines political and religious leadership?
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theocracy
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What is the Asian sub-continent the site of today?
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India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh
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Describe the Chinese writing system.
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Only a small percentage of the populartion could master all the characters so few ancient Chinese people could red and write.
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What did the surplus of graini lead to?
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led to the rise of the cities
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the home of Hammurabi's code
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Babylonian empire
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first people who fined people for punishment
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Hittites
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The urban Harappan civilization
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Indus valley
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