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14 Cards in this Set
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Hunter-gatherer |
A member of anomadic group whose food supply depends on hunting animals and collecting plantfoods.
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Pharaho |
A king of ancient Egypt, considered a god aswell as a political and military leader.
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Indo-Europeans |
A group ofseminomadic peoples who, about 1700BC, began to migrate from what is nowsouthern Russia to Indian subcontinent, Europe, and Southwest Asia.
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Caste |
One of the four classes of people in the socialsystem of the Aryans who settled in India---priests, warriors, peasants ortraders, and on-Aryan laborers or craftsmen. |
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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 BC. |
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Phoenicians |
The most powerful traders along theMediterranean after Crete’s decline. |
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Ramses II |
A pharaoh and a Hittite king. |
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Moses |
The man who led the Hebrews out of slavery. |
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Ashurbanipal |
was an Assyrian king, the son of Esarhaddon and the last strong king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. |
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Cyrus |
was the founder of the Achaemenid Empire |
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Zoroaster |
was the founder of Zoroastrianism. Though he was a native speaker of Old Avestan and lived in the eastern part of the Iranian Plateau |
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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.
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