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39 Cards in this Set
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Hammurabi
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King of Babylon famous for his code of laws.
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Pharoah
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Title of the Kings of Egypt. Originally meant king's palace.
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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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Menes
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United Upper and Lower Egypt, establish First Dynasty, c 3100 B.C.E.
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Hatsheput
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Female pharaoh, XV Century B.C.E
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Thutmose III
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Egyptian pharaoh famous for conquests.
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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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KUSH
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Area south of Egypt. Its King Piye would dominate Egypt in the VIII Century B.C.E.
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Hittites
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Empire builders of Anatolia. Sacked Babylon about 1650 B.C. First to use Iron.
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Phoenicians
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People famous for trade. First to perfect a phonetic alphabet.
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Abraham
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Founder of the jewish people. Led followers out of Canaan.
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Moses
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Led Jews out of Egypt and made first covenant with their God. (Yahweh protects his chosen people.)
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David
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Second King of Israel. Believed to be the author of many psalms.
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Solomon
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Son of David. Remembered for wisdom. Last king of united Israel.
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Dispora
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Scattering of Jews after A.D. 70
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Assyria
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Militaristic empire of northern Mesopotamia noted for GREAT CRUELTY. Greatest of all prepPersian empires.
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Ashurbanipal
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Famous for his great library at Nineveh which contained the collected literature and history of Sumner & Babylon.
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Nebuchadnezzar
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CONQUERER AND DESTROYER or Jerusalem who moved many Jews to Babylon.
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Zoroaster
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Prophet of Persian god AHURA-MAZDA. Believed in DUALITY.
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Cyrus the Great
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FIRST KING of the PERSIAN Empire.
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Culture
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Pattern or behavior or learning
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Hominids
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Pre- or- proto - HUMANS
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Homo Sapiens
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Only existing species of man.
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Animism
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The belief that things in nature are inhabited by spirits, which must be revered.
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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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Civilization
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a CULTURE that has attained a degree of COMPLEXITY. Characterized by urban life and interdependence on urban residents.
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Protoliterate
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BEFORE Writing
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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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Sargon I (of Akkad)
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First great SEMITIC ruler. Built first known empire from Persian gulf to Mediterranean Sea. LEGEND-He was a baby left in a basket in the river.
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