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58 Cards in this Set
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Neolithic Revolution
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emergence of pastoralism & agriculture
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Catal Huyuk
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farming society in turkey
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Mesopotamia
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valley between tigris & euphrates rivers
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Akkadian Empire
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world's 1st empire
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Hammurabi
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babylonian king; created hammurabi's code
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Nile River
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longest river in the world
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hieratic script
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simplified hieroglyphics
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“ten lost tribes”
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when the assyrians conquered isreal & scattered the 10 hebrew tribes
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Cyrus the Great
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allowed jews to return to isreal
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Persian Empire
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created by cyrus after conquering abylonia
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caste system
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class divisions in india
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Gupta empire
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they did well & made $ from religious pilgrims
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Mauryan dynasty
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flourished under asoka
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Siddhartha Gautama
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buddha
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Silk Road
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4000 mile transportation route stretching from china to syria
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polis
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city, town, village, & suuroundings
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Thermopylae
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battle between athenians & persians
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Oedipus Rex
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play by sophocles
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Herodotus
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wrote the first real history in western civilization
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Plato
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socrates' student
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Zhou dynasty
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china's longest dynasty; used mandate of heaven
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Qin dynasty
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associated with legalism
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Qin Shihuangdi
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established the qin dynasty
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Han dynasty
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had civil service exams for their bureacracts
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Mycenae
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1st greek state
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oligarchy
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ruled by the few
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Alexander the Great
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king of macedonia
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Eratosthenes
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said that the earth was round & calculated the circumference of the earth
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Epicurus
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said that happiness was the goal of life
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republic
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type of government: leader is not a king & citizens vote
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Roman Senate
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made up of 300 patricians that had the force of the law
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Julius Caesar
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dictator of Rome
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Pax Romana
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roman peace
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Augustan Age
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when roman empire was expanded; stable time in rome
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Constantine
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reviced rome with diocletian & founded the late roman empire
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Edict of Milan
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tolerance of christianity in rome
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Diocletian
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revived rome with constantine
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Visigoths
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sacked rome
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Muhammed
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recieved revelations from God that are the base of islam
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shari'ah
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law code that muslims use
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Umayyad dynasty
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began by mu'awiyah who only used force if necessary
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Cordoba
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islamic city in spain
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Omar Khayyam
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middle eastern writer
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bazaar
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islamic marketplace
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vizier
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muslim prime minister who advised the caliph
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Five Pillars of Islam
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believe in allah & muhammed as his prophet
pray 5 times a day give alms to the poor observe ramadan by fasting make pilgrimage to mekkah [hajj] |
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Tang dynasty
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had civil service exams; broke up power of large landowners
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Changan
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location the song dynasty's imperial court
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Genghis Khan
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leader of the Mongols
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samurai
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"those who serve"
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Kublai Khan
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completed conquering the song
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Theravada Buddhism
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school of buddhism that saw it as a way of life, not a religion
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Timur Lenk
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ruled a monhol state by seizing power
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ordeal
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germanic way of determining guilt
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St. Benedict
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founded an order of monks & wrote their rules
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Carolingian Renaissance
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a renewed interest in latin culture & classical works
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Vikings
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superb norse warriors, sailors, & shipbuilders
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vassalage
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when warriors swear an oath to their leader
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