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39 Cards in this Set
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1. House of worship for Muslims |
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2. Ancient Egyptian writing |
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3. Before writing |
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5. Greek navel victory over the Persians |
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Romance languages are based on this |
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8. Land between the Rivers |
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12. Moved the capital of the Roman Empire to Byzantium (and changed the name) |
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8. Land between the Rivers |
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12. Moved the capital of the Roman Empire to Byzantium (and changed the name) |
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14. Moving water from rivers to the fields |
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15. Military tactic used effectively by Philip and Alexander; the "human tank" |
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16.ruler of ancient Egypt |
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19. Hinduism teaches this leaves the body upon death and is reincarnated into another |
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21. religious government |
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22. process by which bodies were preserved in ancient Egypt |
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24. Taught one should follow the Eightfold Path to attain nirvana |
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25. Period that began with Alexander's conquest eastward; blend of Persian and Greek culture |
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27. responsible for making Christianity a universal religion |
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28. Roman city-center; the Greek equivalent would be the agora |
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29. This stone allowed Egyptologists to translate their writing |
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31. Taught one should "know thyself"; method was to ask questions |
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33. Described his ideal government in the Republic; student of Socrates |
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35. Defeated Pompey and Senate and became Rome's first dictator-Not emperor |
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36. literally, "city of the dead" ; where bodies were prepared for mummification |
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37. leader of Athens during its 'Golden Age' |
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39. This philosophy taught one should seek pleasure in all things -but in moderation |
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40. Vikings devoloped________ships to raid coastal communities in northern Europe |
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41. This law (edict) made Christianity legal in the Roman Empire |
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42. _________________difusion was the transfer of culture from one people to another via contact |
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43. Rome fought three wars against this northern African city |
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45. This philosophy taught one should learn to accept fate |
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46. rule by a series of people from one family. |
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48. Divine salt-used to dry out bodies in the mummification process |
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49. Spartan slave (spelled backward) |
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50. This device helped the Romans to defeat Carthage's navy |
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52. carried water to Roman cities |
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53. greatest of the Carthagianian generals who won a great battle at Cannae |
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55. the Islamic holy month |
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58. wanderer |
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