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135 Cards in this Set
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Why did egyptions look forward to the annual flooding of the nile?
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The flood producesd farmland depositing silt
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What did Menes do and when?
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1300BCE
He united the lower and upper egypt |
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The Nile
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helped unify the state
Everyone had to work together to control flooding helped trading like a highway good for irrigation |
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Old Kingdoms goverment
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Pharaohs orginized a stong centrilized goverment
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Old Kingdoms Achievments
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Built the pyramids of Giza
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Old Kingdoms Decline
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power failures and Crop struggles
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middle Kingdom-goverment
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New Pharaohs reunited land
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Middle Kingodom- Achievments
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people rebelled
pharaohs drained land for farming |
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Middle Kingdom-Decine
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Hykso's concuered egypt(had horses)
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How long did the Hykos rule for?
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about 100 years
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New Kingdom-goverment
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many new powerful paraohs created large empire
*Queen Hatshepsut- daughter and widow of pharaoh *Ramses II- conquers Palestine and Syria |
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New Kingdom-decline
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big decline, including conquering went on
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New Kingdom-achievments
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expanded empire
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Hytices are know for..
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made iron
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Pharaoh
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egyption rular
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Pyramids
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Burial tumbs
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Dynasties
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ruling familys
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Why did cities emerge along the nile?
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For the water, to farm, to drink, for the animals
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Fertile Crescent
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Called that because of the good farming, around the euphates and tigiris rivers
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Cuneiform
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wedge, shaped writing
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What where two achievements of the Sumerians
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Math
-the 60 minute hour with the 360 degree circle Writing -cuneiform Flood protection |
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Empires
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a groups of territories under control of one rular
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Code of Hammuraabi
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the first major set of laws
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Hitties
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1400BCE
Forged iron tools and weapond |
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Assyrian
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1100BCE
Set up one of the first librays |
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Name the differences between the Code of Hammurabi and the Jewish laws
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The code of hammurabi
-punisments depended on social class -Very harsh punishments(death) -Slaves where property Jewish Law -a book of "do's and dont's -more humane -distinction between hebrews and non-herbrews -Humen rights of slaves respected |
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What are the similarities between the Code of Hammurabi and the Jewish law?
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- Both code of laws
- Do not falsly acuse - eye for an eye - allowed divoce - adressed slavery |
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Phoenivisans- when and what where they known for?
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600bce
gained fame as great sailers and traders |
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Wht did the Phoencians create?
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the alphabet similar to the one we use today
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Covenant
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binding agreement
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Monotheistic
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Believing in one god
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Prophets
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spiritual leaders who explained God's will
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What did the Jewish people write there history in?
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The Torah
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Who helped the Hebrews escape?
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Moses
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Where di the Hebrews excape from?
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from being slaves of the egyptions
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Whats the capital of isreal?
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Jerusalem
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How do the hebrews think they got the land?
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They think that thge god gave them the land
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How did god give the ten commandments to his people?
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Through moses
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Who did god make the covenant with?
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Abraham
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When did gilgamesh rule?q
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2700BCE
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What was the first set of laws?
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The Code of Hamnmurabi
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What new technology did the Hitties bring to Mesopotamis?
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Iron making
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Nebuchadnesser
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612CBCE
rular of Babylon rebuilt it biiger |
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Assyrians
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1100BCE
Assurbanial make the first library |
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Criminal Law
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deals withoffences agains others such as robbery or assualt
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Civil Law
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deals with personal rights/matter
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Codify
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arrange and set down in writing
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Hammurabi
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King of Babylon
-his laws -new irrigation |
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Babylonian empire
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1790BCE
Hammurabi |
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Sargon
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Akkad
lead first known empire |
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Akkad
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Sargon
2300BCE first know emprire |
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Nubia
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Southern egypt
-ivory -cattle independence |
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Silt
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rich soil carried by river
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Cataract
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waterfall
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delta
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triangular deposit of somerivers
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diaspora
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scattering of people
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sabbeth
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holy day of rest for worship
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patriarchal
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the family headed by the man
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ethics
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moral standards of behavior1
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Alphaet
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contains letter that represent spoken sounds
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colony
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territory setle and ruled by people from another land
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Between what two rivers is mesopotamia located?
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The Euphrates and the Tigris Rivers
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What was suumers social hierarchy?
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ruling family
officials priests merchants artisons peasents farmers slaves |
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was summerians poly or monothiestic?
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polythieistic
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ziggurat
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temple
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What were the sumerians views on the afterlife?
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They saw the after life as a grim place were ther was no release
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What were the Phoecians known for?
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Sailing and trading, maufacturing
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What did the phoecians manufacture?
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glass from costal sand
papyrus to write on purple dye |
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What was the first "true city"
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Urek
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what resorces did mesopotamia have and what did it lack?
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had water, rich soil
lacked metals, stones, wood |
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What led to the devastation of trhe landscape around Urek?
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Civilation came and the population grew and then thee landd was over farmed
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What was the biblical garden of edeN?
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It was were the euphrates and indus rivers meet
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What happed to the cities of sumer?
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Inflation
econamy colapsed people invaded |
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Coptic
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the language of early christian egyptions
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demotic
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a system of writing, easier than hieroglyphics, devolped for everyday use
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hieratic
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relating to a simplified cursive style of egyption hieroglyphics
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determinative
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Hieroglyphs sigh that explains what kind of word you are readding
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script
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the specific type of letters that you use
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alphabet
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letters that represent spoken sounds
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ideogram
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picture that symbolizes and idea or action
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logogram
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a written symbol representing the entire spoken language
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hieroglyphs
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form of writing devloped by the ancient egyptions
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phonogram
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a symbol representing a sound
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picto gram
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a picture used to represent an object
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cunieform
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wedge-shaped writing of ancient sumerians
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ostracon
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an ancient piece of paper used from scribnes to practice writing
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Amon-Re
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the sun god
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Valley of the kings
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many kings buried there
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Akhenaton
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ordered priest to only preach about akon
he devoted his life to Akon |
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Aton
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minor gods whos symbol was the sun's disk
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decipher
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to decode
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mummification
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practice of presearving the bodies of the dead
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hieroglyphics
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form of picture writing
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papyrus
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plant that grows along the nile, used like paper
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Pre history
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long period of time before writing
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domesticate
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tame animal and adobt crop for specific civilization
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civilization
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complex, highly organized social order
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culture diffusion
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spread of ideas, customs, and technology
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Archaeology
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study of past people and cultures
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artifacts
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object made by people
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Anthropology
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study of the orgins and devolpment of people and their society
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Surplus
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extra food
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technology
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skills and tools people use to meet their basic need
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Neolithic Age
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New Stone age
11000 years ago |
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Culture
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ways of life of a society
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city-state
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a politicle unit that included a city and its surronding by land and villages but only consists of one city
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polythesitic
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beilived in many gods
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Artisans
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skilled craft workers who made potery, woven goods...
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scribes
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learned to read/write to help keep records
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historian
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person who studies how people lived in the past
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longitude
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east or west of the prime meridian
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Lattitude
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north and south of the equater
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Geography
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study of poeple and enivorment, and there resources
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glacier
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thick sheet of ice
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Nomad
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hunter or gather
someone who moves from place to place |
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Paleotithic Age
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old stone age
10,000 bce |
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steppe
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nomatic hunters tended cattle on these dry grass lands
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animism
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belief that spirits and forces live in animal
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phoenician
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locaten on the northern edges of africa
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monotheistic
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believe in one god
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ethics
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moral standards of belief
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colony
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territory settled and ruled by eople from anbother land
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alphabet
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contains letters that represent spoken sounds
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covewnant
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a binding agreement
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patriarchal
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the family is headed by the husband
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Sabbath
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holy day of rest/worship
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diaspora
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scattering of people
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prophet
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spiritual leader believed to be interbiting gods will
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pharaoh
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title of rulars in ancient egypt
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delta
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triangular depoisit of some rivers
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dynasty
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the ruling family
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cataract
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waterfall
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silt
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rich soil carried by river
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Nubia
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souther egypt
-ivory, cattle -independent |
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Akkad
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2300 Bce sargon first known empire
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