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53 Cards in this Set
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When was the Vedic period of north India, and what was composed during that time? |
1500-900 BCE, the Rig Veda composed |
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When did the Hittites decline and the Mittani emerge in northern Mesopotamia? |
Around 1500 BCE |
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When did the Hittite New Kingdom, the Egypt New Kingdom and the Mittani fight for control of the Levant? |
Late 1400s BCE |
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When did the Lapita people begin colonizing the rest of the Pacific? |
mid-1400s BCE |
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When was the peak of Mycenaean Greece? |
mid-1400s BCE |
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Under which Pharaoh did Egypt's New Kingdom reach its peak and when? |
1417 BCE under Amenophis III |
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When was he Amarna Period of Egypt and what was its significance? |
Amenophis IV styles himself "Akhenaten," moves the capital to El-Amarna, advocates worship of Aten, the Sun, and instigates an artistic revolution |
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When does Egypt return to artistic orthodoxy? |
1336 BCE in Tutankhamun's reign |
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When were the first alphabets developed and where? |
Sinai peninsula (Egypt) and in the city of Ugarit in the Levant. |
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When did Chinese oracle bone inscribing become a tradition? |
1400 BCE |
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When did the people of Ashur break free from Mittani and form Assyria? |
mid-1300s BCE |
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When was the Cult of Osiris and the Book of the Dead popular in Egypt? |
1200s BCE |
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When was the Middle Assyrian period and what were some areas it covered? |
1200s BCE, Tiglath-Pileser I in particular was influential, the empire included northern Mesopotamia, Syria and Anatolia |
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When did the Olmec civilization develop in mexico? |
1200 BCE |
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When did the Umfield Culture emerge in the Danube area of Europe? |
1200 BCE |
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When did the Chavin civilization emerge in Peru? |
1200 BCE |
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When was the Jewish exodus from Egypt to the Levant? |
1200 BCE |
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When did the Hittite state collapse? |
1180 BCE |
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When was the death of Rameses III, the last great pharaoh of Egypt? |
1166 BCE |
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When did the Kassite dynasty of Babylon meet its end? |
1154 BCE , sacked by neighboring Elam |
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When was the collapse of Mycenaean Greece, ushering in the dark ages of Greece? |
1150 BCE |
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When were the first fortified hilltop sites in Western Europe built? |
1100 BCE |
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When did the Phoenicians expand across the Mediterranean? |
1000s BCE |
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When did the Egyptian New Kingdom fragment into smaller kingdom? |
1069 BCE |
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When did the Dark age come to the Middle East? |
1050 BCE |
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When did the Western Zhou dynasty supplant the Shang in China? |
1027 BCE |
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When, according to Biblical tradition, was the Israelite kingdom unified under David? |
1006 BCE |
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When did Etruscans land in Italy? |
1000 BCE |
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When was the height of the Phoenician influence in the Mediterranean? |
900 BCE |
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When did Polynesian culture evolve in the Pacific? |
900 BCE |
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When did the Adena culture develop in the Ohio River valley? |
900 BCE |
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From when to when did Solomon rule Israel, and what happened to the country when he died? |
Ruled from 965-926 BCE, and upon his death the kingdom was split into Israel and Judah. |
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When was the beginning of the Neo-Assyrian period? |
900s BCE |
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When did the Urartu Kingdom become established in eastern Anatolia? |
900 BCE |
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When were the Later Vedas composed in India? |
900 BCE |
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When was the Nubian state of Kush established in south Egypt? |
900 BCE |
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When did the Scythians develop pastoral nomadism and spread across the steppes, building kurgan burial mounds as they went? |
900-700 BCE |
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When was the Assyrian empire's capital moved from Ashur to Nimrud? |
883 BCE |
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When was the first village established on Palatine Hill, Rome? |
850 BCE |
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When was the height of the Chavin cult of the supernatural were-jaguar? |
850 BCE |
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When is the birth date of the Jain teacher Parshvanatha according to tradition? |
817 BCE |
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When was Carthage founded in North Africa by Phoenicians? |
814 BCE |
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When did city culture develop in the Ganges valley? |
800 BCE |
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When was the beginning of the first stage of the Celtic Iron Age? |
800 BCE |
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When did evidence of writing appear to emerge in Central America? |
800 BCE |
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When did the Greeks adopt Phoenician script? |
800 BCE |
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When did city-states form in Italy? |
800 BCE |
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When were the "Lost Tribes" of Israel deported from Assyrian Israel by Shalmaneser V? |
727-722 BCE |
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When was the first Pan-Hellenic athletics festival held in Olympia? |
776 BCE |
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When did the Western Zhou collapse, leaving the Eastern Zhou to establish a new capital at Luoyang and begin the "Spring and Autumn" period in China? |
771 BCE |
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When did Romulus found Rome (according to tradition)? |
753 BCE |
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When were the works of Homer and Hesiod first written down? |
750 BCE |
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When did Kush conquer Egypt? |
750 BCE |
