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24 Cards in this Set
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Fertile Cresent |
Location of the garden of Eden; narrow strip of land named for its fruitfulness and its Cresent shape |
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Cuneiform |
"Wedge" writing developed by the Sumeriams |
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Culture |
The way of life of a group of people |
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Hammurabi |
Kong who established the old babylonian empire; compiled a law code of nearly 300 laws |
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Cyrus the Great |
The king of Medes and The Persians who conquered the neo-Babylonian Empire; decreed in 536 BC that the Jewish people be allowed to return to Judah |
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Mohammed |
An Arab mystic from the city of Mecca; founder of Islam |
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Persia |
The section of modern Iran bordering the Persian Gulf in the southwest |
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Theocracy |
A nation ruled by God |
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Chou Dynasty |
China's longest ruling dynasty |
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Ch'in Dynasty |
Empire from which china gets its name |
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Shih Huang Ti |
The founder of the Ch'in Dynasty and the first emperor of a United China; also remembered for building the Great Wall of China |
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Marco Polo |
Famous Italian explorer to China |
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Pakistan |
Originally part of India; became the Muslim ruled country. |
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Chung-kuo |
Name given to ancient China |
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Hinduism |
A pantheistic and polytheistic, pagan religion which teaches that in order to obtain salvation, one must go through an extinction of individual personality and a continuous cycle of reincarnations to attain a state of oneness with Brahma, the universal spirit |
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Caste system |
A strict division of social classes that developed in India |
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Buddhism |
A pagan religion which closely resembles Hinduism; teaches that one achieves salvation by following the "middle way" and the "noble eightfold path" to eliminate human desire, escape reincarnation, and attain nirvana |
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Herodotus |
The Greek "father of history" and the foremost traveler of the Mediterranean world |
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King Tutankhamen |
A pharaoh who died at the age of 18, his tomb discovered in 1922, was one of the world's greatest archaeological discoveries |
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Ramses II |
Pharaoh who fought the Hotties in Asia and sponsored much building activity |
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Great Pyramid of Cheops |
One of the architectural wonders of the world; built by Cheops |
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Septuagint |
Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testamnet |
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Simon of Cyrene |
The man who was compelled by the Romans to carry the cross for Jesus |
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Mansa Musa |
Greatest ruler of the Mali Empire |
