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20 Cards in this Set
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Pictogram
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Earliest form of writing by man
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Hieroglyphics
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Pictograms used in Egypt
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Fertile Crescent
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"u" shaped area stretching from the eastern Mediterranean coast through Syria into Mesopotamia
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Mesopotamia
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Area between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers
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South Asia
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Geographic term for the Indian subcontinent
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East asia/far asia
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Geographic term for China
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Dynasty
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The passing of leadership from father to son
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Near east or Middle East
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Geographic term for Mesopotamia and Persian empire area
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Hebrews
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Jewish people
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Monotheism
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Believe in one God
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City state
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Independent cities and their surrounding lands (small kingdoms)
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Ten Commandments
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Moral law code of Judaism and Christianity
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Code of Hammurabi
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Early civil law code of Babylon
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Specialization of labor
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Working at for creating only one item or good in order to meet ones needs
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Torah
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The Holy Scriptures of Judaism
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Exile
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Banished from the land
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diaspora
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The scattering of Jewish communities
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Cuneiform
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pictograms used in Sumer
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Alphabet
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Symbols used to represent sounds created by the Phoenicians
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Empire
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Political unit composed of the kingdom and all conquered lands
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