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32 Cards in this Set
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Hyksos
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Semitic people from Western Asia. Dominated Egypt during Second Imtermediate Period, 1800-1750B.C.
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Akhnaton
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Egyptian pharaoh who developed first monotheistic religion.
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Ramases II
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Last great pharaoh. Spectacular builder.
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Abraham
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Founder of the jewish people. Led followers out of Canaan.
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Paleolithic Culture
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Early human culture. The Old Stone Age. Made stone tools using standardized procedures.
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Neolithic Culture
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New Stone Age includes domestication of plants and animals. After this man becomes a food producer.
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Tribe
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Community characterized by a common speech or distinctive dialect, common cultural heritage. (tribal chief)
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Megaliths
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Large stone monuments, such as Stonehenge, built by Neolithic people.
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Mesopotamia
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Greek for "Between the Rivers" (Tigris and Euphrates)
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Fertile Cresent
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Area from the Persian Gulf on the east along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers to the Mediterranean Sea and along the east coast of that sea.
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Sumner
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Home of civilization, writing, the wheel, cities. Origin of people Unknown. Language not semitic or Indo European. Developed CUNNEIFORM System of Writing.
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Ziggurat
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Pyramid shaped building in Mesopotamian cities crowned by a temple to a god.
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Cuneiform
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Wedge-shaped writing used by Mesopotamian scribes who wrote with a reed instrument in CLAY tablets.
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Gilgamesh
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Hero of the Epic of Gilgamesh who searches for immortality. Has ancient version of the GREAT FLOOD. The OLDEST BOOK we know.
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Enlil
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Great God of ancient Sumeria who changed the languages of mankind who tried to build a temple to Heaven and brought flood to punish the wicked.
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“Black Land”
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it was dark in color from the silt and the crops that grew on itso densely.
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Old Kingdom
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Most of the pyramids, built during the _______, are clustered south and west of Cairo. encompassed the third through sixth dynasties of Egyptian kings, Memphis, south of the delta
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Queen Hatshepsut
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one of the first women to become pharaoh in her own right, built a great temple at Deir el Bahri near Thebes. As pharaoh, Hatshepsut sent out military expeditions, encouraged mining, fostered agriculture sent a trading expedition up the Nile.
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Psalm 137:
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By the rivers of Babylon, we sat and wept when we
remembered Zion.…How can we sing the songs of the Lord while in a foreign land? If I forget you, O Jerusalem, may my right hand forget its skill. May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth if I do not remember you, If I do not consider Jerusalem my highest joy. |
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Hammurabi
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who ruled over the Amorites or Old Babylonians, a large group of Semitic-speaking seminomas.
the sun of Babylon, the king who has made the four quarters of the world subservient, I am indeed the shepherd who brings peace, strict justice |
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Amenhotep
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introducedthe worship of Aten, god of the sun disk, as the chief god and pursued his
worship with great enthusiasm. changed to Akhenaten fail |
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Akhenaten
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reduce their influence by replacing Thebes as the
capital of Egypt with Akhetaten fail |
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Tutankhamun
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returned the government to Thebes and restored the old gods.
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Enlil
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god of wind;
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Enki
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god of the earth, rivers, wells, and canals as
well as inventions and crafts |
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Ninhursaga
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a goddess associated with soil, mountains, and vegetation, who came to be worshiped as a mother goddess, a “mother of all children,” who manifested her power by giving birth to kings and conferring the royal insignia on them.
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exodus
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Hebrews remained in bondage until Moses led his people out of Egypt in the well known
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Hebrew Bible,
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Describing them as a nomadic people, the Hebrews’ own tradition states that they were descendants of the patriarch Abraham, who had migrated from Mesopotamia to the land of Canaan, where the Hebrews became identified as
the “Children of Israel.” |
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Assyrians
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ritual or ceremonial scenes revolving around the king and scenes of hunting and war The latter show realistic action scenes of the king and his warriors engaged in battle or hunting animals, especially lions These images depict a strongly masculine world where discipline, brute force and toughness are the enduring values indeed the very values of the Assyrian military monarchy
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covenant
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The Israelites believed that during the exodus from Egypt, when Moses, according to biblical tradition led his people out of bondage and into the Promised Land God made a covenant or contract with the tribes of Israel who believed that Yahweh had spoken to them through Moses.
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law
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The Israelites promised to obey Yahweh and follow his
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prophets
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were sent
by God to serve as his voice to his people. |