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60 Cards in this Set
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cartographer
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map maker
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economics
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money, imports, and exports
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sequencing
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putting things in chronological order
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inference
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educated guess
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generalize
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broad statement
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maps
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political, physical, thematic
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egypt had what major civilization?
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Nile River Valley
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iraq had what major civilization?
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Tigris-Euphrates Valley
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india had what major civilization?
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Indus River Valley
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Eastern Asia and China had what major civilization?
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Huang River and Yellow River
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anthropologist
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study skeletons
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hominids
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human-like creatures (walk on 2 legs)
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artifacts
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objects of the past
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culture
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set of beliefs, the way we live (religion)
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mary leakey
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famous anthropologist (american)
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"Lucy"
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hominid found by Donald Johansen, 3.7 million years old
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Ice Age
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extremely cold, water levels dropped, created land bridges
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neanderthal
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homosapiens, wore animal skins, used fire, tools, caveman
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cro-magnon
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cave paintings, appeared 50,000 years ago in Europe, spear throwers
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Nile River
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world's longest river, flows north, egypt
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hieroglyphics
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pictographs, first used in Nile River Valley
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papyrus
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paper
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rosetta stone
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unlocked secret of the hieroglyphics
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pharoah
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ruler of egpyt
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menes
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had over 30 dynasties in egypt
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polytheism
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belief in many gods
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amenhotep
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leader of egypt, tried to bring religious and social change
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scribes
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writers
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ziggurats
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architectual temples (sumeria)
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city-states
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state
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akkadians
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lasted for 150 yrs on the Fertile Crescent
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mesopotamia
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between tigris and euphrates river (fertile crescent)
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sargon
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most powerful akkadian king
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babylonians
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controlled fertile crescent
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hittites
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war-like people, invaded fertile crescent, first to smelt iron
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assyrians
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tried to take fertile crescent , capital ninevah
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chaldeans
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conquered fertile crescent
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persians
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conquered chaldeans, extended empire
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king nebuchadnezzar
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king of chaldeans, built hanging gardens of babylon
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cyrus
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great ruler of the persians, expanded empire to india
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zoroaster
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persian religious profit, said there were two forces in the world, good and evil
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phoenicians
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city-states, sea-faring, alphabet
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lydians
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first to coin money
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cathage
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north africa, punic wars
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hebrews
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lived in canaan
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abraham
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founder of the hebrews
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hacob
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grandson of adraham, had 12 sons, each son started a tribe, 12 tribes of israel
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israel
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12 tribes established by jacon's sons
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exodus
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moses leading the hebrews from egypt
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moses
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does to the top of Mt.Sinai, talks to Yahweh
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10 commandments
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given to moses by yahweh
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judges
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leaders of tribes, jacob's sons
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saul
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first king of israel
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david
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followed saul, made covenant with people
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solomon
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david's son, wise, israel reached its power
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torah
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first five books of the old testament
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mosaic law
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name for moses and his 10 commandments
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monsoons
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great winds
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harappan civilization
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(india) highly developed
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citadel
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fortress on hill
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