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14 Cards in this Set
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Hunter-Gather |
A member of a nomadic group whose food supply depends on hunting animals and collecting plant foods |
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Pharaoh |
A king of Ancient Egypt considered a god as well as a military leader |
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Indo-European |
large, widespread family of languages, the surviving branches of which include Italic, Slavic, Baltic, Hellenic, Celtic, Germanic, and Indo-Iranian, spoken by about half the world's population |
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Caste |
each of the hereditary classes of Hindu society, distinguished by relative degrees of ritual purity or pollution and of social status. |
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Siddhartha Gautama |
Gautama Buddha, also known as Siddhārtha Gautama, Shakyamuni, or simply the Buddha, was a sage on whose teachings Buddhism was founded |
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Minoans |
were the first Europeans to have literate civilization |
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Phoenicians |
an ancient Semitic thalassocratic civilization situated on the western, coastal part of the Fertile Crescent and centered on the coastline of modern Lebanon, Israel and Syria |
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RamsesII |
known as Ramesses the Great was the third pharaoh of the Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt. He is often regarded as the greatest most celebrated, and most powerful pharaoh of the Egyptian Empire |
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Moses |
a prophet in Abrahamic religions. According to the Hebrew Bible, he was a former Egyptian prince who later in life became a religious leader and lawgiver, to whom the authorship of the Torah is traditionally attributed |
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Ashurbanipal |
spelled Assurbanipal or Ashurbanipal, was an Assyrian king, the son of Esarhaddon and the last strong king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire |
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Cyrus |
Cyrus II of Persia, commonly known as Cyrus the Great and also called Cyrus the Elder by the Greeks, was the founder of the Achaemenid Empire |
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Zoroaster |
known as Zarathustra, or as Zarathushtra Spitama was the founder of Zoroastrianism though he was born Ying Zheng and also known as King Zheng of Qin, was the king of the state of Qin who conquered all other Warring States and eventually unified China in 221 BCa native speaker of Old Avestan and lived in the eastern part of the Iranian Plateau his birthplace is uncertain |
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Confucius |
was a Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn period of Chinese history |
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Shi Huangdi |
born Ying Zheng and also known as King Zheng of Qin, was the king of the state of Qin who conquered all other Warring States and eventually unified China in 221 BC |
