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109 Cards in this Set
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Who wrote a canon of medicine:
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Avineceena
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The people with the first ethical world view:
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Hebrews
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Engraved wood dipped in ink used as an ancient form of writing:
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Block printing
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Sumerian Writing:
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Cuneiform
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Greek tyrant who divided the land more equally among the peasant than the rich:
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Solon
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First pope:
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St. Peter
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Hebrew king who built the Temple of Jerusalem:
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Solomon
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Name of plant used in Ancient Egypt to make paper:
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Papyrus
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Capital of Russia:
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Moscow
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A judge in ancient Rome:
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praetor
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Is an anthropologist who discovered "Lucy":
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Dr. Leakey
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Islamic House of Worship:
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mosque
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Won the battle of Adrianople:
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Alaric
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Teachings of Confucis:
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Ancestrol worship
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Attempted to change the religion of the Egyptian people to one god:
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Amonhotep
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Egyptians statue that has the head of a man and a body of a lion:
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sphinx
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Apostles to the Slavs:
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Saints Cyril and Methodius
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Greek games that brought the people of Greece together:
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Olympic Games
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Ship of the desert:
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Camel
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Rich people of Rome:
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Patricians
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Person who spread Hellenistic culture to Indus River Valley:
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Alexander teh Great
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Foot soldiers in ancient Greece:
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phalanx
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Roman emperor who wrote "Meditations":
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Marcus Arelius
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Poor people of Rome:
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Plebeians
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Calls the Islamic people to prayer:
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Imam
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Islamic god:
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Allah
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The Emperors from Octavian to Marcus Arelius:
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Pax Romana
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Dead people of Ancient Rome:
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mummies
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Type of fireproof roof:
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Barrel Vaults
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Who formed the first trimuvirate:
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Caesar, Pompey, and Crasus
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Head of Eastern Roman Empire churches and last of Roman emperors:
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Justinian
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Burned Rome and blamed it on the Christians:
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Niero
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Small pointed blade used in Prehistory:
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Micro-lithe
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The fort on top of the Acropolis:
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Parthenon
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Consecrated maidens who kept the fires burning in the temple:
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Vestal Virgins
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Taveled Roman empire in eight years and put face on coins:
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Hadrian
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People who speak for the citizens:
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Tribunes
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Surplus of goods, division of labor, and living in a city is:
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civilization
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Animals and plants stuck in rocks:
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Fossils
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Who wrote the Illiad and the Odyssey:
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Homer
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Capital fo Greece:
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Athens
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Official church teaching:
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Theology
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Wrote History of the Persian War:
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Herdotus
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Turning point of history in Rome:
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Battle of Adrianople
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Capital of Italy:
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Rome
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Art in the Byzantine Churches:
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icons
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The Roman emperor who lost the Battle of Adrianople was:
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Valens
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Ruled Greece during the Golden Age:
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Pericles
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Religion brougth from China to India:
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Buddhism
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Tower that prayer to call from was given:
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Minaret
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Person who wrote the codes of law used in ancient Babylon:
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Hammurabi
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Father of Algebra:
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Al-Khwarizimi
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Capital of Egypt:
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Cairo
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Rank of the church:
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hierarchy
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Who was the most important prolific epistle writer,(wrote 13):
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St. Paul
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Leader of Carthiginian army during the second Punic War:
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Hannibal
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Triangle of soil at the mouth of a river:
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Delta
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Religion in ancient Persia:
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Zoroasterism
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Wrote the books "Confessions" and "The City of God":
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St. Augustine
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Greek physician, doctors take his oath today:
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Hippocrates
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Made advances in the study of sight and optics:
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Al-Hazin
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Time before history was written:
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Prehistory
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Capital of China:
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Beijing
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Founder of Islam:
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Mohamed
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Translated the Bible from Hebrew to Greek to Latin:
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St. Jerome
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Worship of one god:
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monotheism
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Charlamagne of Russia, started schools and brought education to Russia:
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Yarolav
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Wrote "Travels" in the Islamic world:
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Ibn Battuta
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Book of Zoroasterism:
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Zend Avesta
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Successor of Mohammed:
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caliph
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Four great river civilizations:
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Nile, Yellow(Hwang Ho), Tigris-Euphrates, and Indus River
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City where bishops reside:
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Patriarchets
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Who was part of the first triumvirate and killed BY Marcus Brutus:
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Caesar
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Lines North and South of the equator:
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Latitude
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Brought Christianity to Russia:
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Vladmir
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Believed in good government and a philosopher king. Wrote "Tbe Republic":
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Plato
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Ancient Greece stoicism philosopher:
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Zeno
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Bones that tell the future:
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oracle bones
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Who issued the Edict of Milan:
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Constantine
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Government when people elect their leaders:
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Direct Democracy
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Brothers who spoke for the people:
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The Grachus Brothers
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Structure built by Romans that carry water:
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aqueduct
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Emperor who limited prices and wages:
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Diocletian
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Split in the church:
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schism
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Scourge of God, leader from Asia who came to conquer Rome:
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Attila the Hun
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First ancient people to draw on cave walls:
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Cro-Magnon Man
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Address at Caesar's funeral:
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Cicero
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Trade route through the Mid East and China that controls trade:
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Silk Road
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Tyrant from ancient Greece who practiced ostracism:
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Cleisthenes
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Hebrew bible:
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Torah
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Egyptian King:
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Pharoah
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Islamic worship stone:
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Kabba Stone
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Yellow soil found in China:
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Loess
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Lines East and West of the Prime Meridian:
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:longitude
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What river is Rome located on:
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Tiber River
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Sumerian Temple:
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Ziggurat
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Italian city destoyed by a volcano:
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Pompeii
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The way people live and work to satisfy their basic needs is:
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culture
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First capital of Russia:
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Kiev
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Islamic Bible:
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Koran
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Greek city-state:
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polis
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Champion of the people:
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tyrant
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Chinese game:
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Tanagram
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Egyptian writing:
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hierolgyphics
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Basic tool used in prehistory:
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hand axe
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Religious capital of Islam:
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Mecca
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Two rivers in the land of Mesopotamia:
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Tigris-Euphrates River
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6,000 Roman soldiers:
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Legion
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Bishops in the Byzantine Church:
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Patriarchs
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