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21 Cards in this Set
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cultural difusion |
is the spread of beliefs and social activities from one group to another.
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hammarabis code |
well-preserved Babylonian law codeof ancient Mesopotamia
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roseta stone |
translation matrix for Egyptian languages |
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satraps |
provincial governor in the ancient Persian empire.
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paleolithic era |
old stone age use of chipped stone tools |
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fertile cresant |
moon shaped gulf |
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theocracy |
system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god. |
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neolithic revolution |
wide-scale transition of many human cultures from a lifestyle of hunting and gathering to one of agriculture and settlement, making possible an increasingly larger population. |
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polytheism |
belief in many gods |
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artifact |
an object made by a human being, typically one of cultural or historical interest. |
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Cyrus the great |
Elder by the Greeks, was the founder of the Achaemenid Empire |
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fossils |
preserved remains or traces of animals, plants, and other organisms from the remote past |
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neolithc |
New Stone Age, was a period in the development of human technology |
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sumerians |
citizens of ancient city sumer |
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phonecians |
ancient civilization composed of independent city-states which lay along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea stretching through what is now Syria, Lebannon and northern Israel. |
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monotheisim |
belief in one god |
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the Persian empire |
an empire based in Western Asia, founded by Cyrus the Great
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Nile river |
only source of water in egypt |
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afterlife |
belief of life after death |
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indus |
longest river in Pakistan. Pakistan is a country in Asia
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homo sapiens |
The species that you and all other living human beings on this planet belong to
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