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21 Cards in this Set
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Nomads
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people who migrate who throughout history, cooperated and caused problems for civilizations
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Phoenicians
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Alphabet
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Moses
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Key figure in Judaism and Christianity, renewed Abraham’s covenant and led Jews back to the promise land
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Hammurabi
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Law Code
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Bantu
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The language spoken by the west Africans that migrated and spread culture
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Zoraster
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Persian thinker that rejected Persian religion
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Aryans
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Ancestors of Indians that are known because of Vedas and had influence on Indian culture
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Asoka
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most honored emperor of India, grandson of Chandragupta, after a slaughtering turned Buddhist
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Aristotle
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Government and scientific method
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Plato
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The Republic, ideal society, reason
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Henry VIII
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At first against protestant reformation, but when not allowed to divorce his wife, converts to Protestantism to get one
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Alexander The Great
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Conquered a lot of land in a short time, spread Hellenistic culture
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Beckett
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tries to try clergy, causing conflict, prompting knights to murder him in his own church, which consequently makes him a martyr and saint
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Sufis
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third section, connection with god through meditation, fasting, rituals, miraculous power
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Akahenaton
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Egyptian pharaoh that urges monotheism
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Jean Champollian
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Deciphered hieroglyphics - Rosetta Stone
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Epic of Gilgamesh
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Hindu epic that demonstrates the importance of following one’s dharma
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Assyrians
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iron weapons, warriors, well-ordered society, and conquest
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Chandragupta
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Harsh but effective ruler, conquered much, well-organized bureaucracy, emperor of Mauryan empire
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Battle of Hastings
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Duke William takes Harold, assumes throne of England
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Concordant of Worms
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Treaty signed in 1122 that gave church power to elect and invest bishops, but the emperor to invest them with fiefs
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