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19 Cards in this Set
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Capital of Persia |
Persepolis |
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Destroys Persia |
Alexander the Great |
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Founder of Persia |
Cyrus the Great |
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The Persian who attacked Greece with boat bridge |
Darius the Great |
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Created first empire ever |
Sargon |
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First civilization ever |
Mesopotamia |
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The four parts of Mesopotamia |
Akkad, Sumer, Assyria and Babylon |
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Creates the first written laws shown to people |
Hammurabi |
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Society where men have most of the power |
Patriarchal |
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Society where women have most of the power |
Matriarchal |
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Mesopotamian Temple |
Ziggurat |
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Picture writing |
Pictograph |
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Oldest written story |
Gilgamesh |
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Rivers of Mesopotamia |
Tigris and Euphrates |
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Conquers Mesopotamia |
Persia |
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Society where religion rules |
Theocracy |
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Mesopotamian invention making land travel easier |
Wheel |
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Mesopotamian invention making water travel easier |
Sailboat |
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People in Persia who created most of our alphabet |
Phoenicians |
