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14 Cards in this Set
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Hunter Gatherer |
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 political and military leader.
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Indo-Europeans |
a group of seminomadic peoples who, about 1700 B.C., who began to migrate from is now southern Russia to the Indian subcontinent, Europe, and southwest Asia
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Caste |
one of the four classes of people in the social system of the Aryans
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Siddhartha Gautama |
known as the leader and founder of a sect of wanderer ascetics
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Minoans |
a seafaring and trading people that lived on the island of crete from about 2000 to 1400 B.C.
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Phoenicians |
a seafaring and trading people that lived on the island of Crete from about 2000 to 1400 B.C.
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Ramses II |
also 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 |
the great leader, lawgiver, and prophet of the ancient
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Ashurbanipal |
also 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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Cyurs |
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 |
also 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 Huangfi |
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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