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14 Cards in this Set
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Hunter-gatherer |
a member of a nomadicgroup whose food supply depends on hunting animals and collecting plant foods |
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Pharaoh |
a king of ancient Egypt, considered a god aswell as a political and military leader |
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Indo-Europeans |
a group of seminomadic peoples who, about 1700B.C., began to migrate from what is now Southern Russia to the Indiansubcontinent, Europe, and Southwest Asia |
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Caste |
one of the fourclasses of people in the social system of the Aryans who settled inIndia—priests, warriors, peasants or traders, and non-Aryan laborers orcraftsmen |
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Siddhartha Gautama |
the founder of Buddhism |
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Minoans |
a seafaring andtrading people that lived on the island of Crete from about 2000 to 1400 B.C. |
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Phoenicians |
a seafaring people of Southwest Asia, who around1100 B.C. began to trade and established colonies throughout the Mediterraneanregion. They are known for the alphabet. |
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Ramses II |
a pharaoh that reigned from 1290 to 1224 B.C. Hemade a treaty with a Hittite king that promised “peace and brotherhood betweenus forever". |
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Moses |
the man who led theHebrews out of slavery. He also was the one who delivered the Ten Commandments. |
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Ashurbanipal |
a king that collected more than 20,000 claytablets throughout the fertile crescent. |
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Cyrus |
Persia’s King. He was a military genius that ledhis army from victory to victory between 550 and 539 B.C. |
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Zoroaster |
a Persian prophet who lived around 600 B.C. |
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Confucius |
China’s most influential Scholar |
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Shi Huangdi |
“First Emperor" |
