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69 Cards in this Set
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Prehistory |
the time before writing was developed |
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Archaeology |
the study of the past societies though analysis of what people left behind |
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Artifacts |
objects made by humans and were left behind |
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Fossils |
to create a picture of people's everyday lives |
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Peopling of the Earth |
Move to different palcs |
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Nomads |
Looking for a home |
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Paleolithic |
Used to designate the early period of human history |
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1st Agricultural Revolution |
plants and animals/settlin down/civilazation |
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Neolithic |
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Civilization |
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Sumeria |
Invent things |
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Mesopotamia |
land between rivers |
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Tigris and Euphrates |
Rivers |
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Ziggurats |
tall temple, step pyramids |
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Cuneiform |
1st writing,wheels,sails |
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city-state |
each city, own god |
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Hammurabi |
Famous god king |
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Assyrians |
War-like |
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Babylonians |
Law code "eye for and eye" |
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Persians |
Largest empire |
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Phoenicians |
traders,travel,purple dye |
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Hebrews |
Jewish |
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Monotheism |
1 god |
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Nile |
water,trade,travel,barriers |
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Pharaohs |
a title of an ancient egyptian king |
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Papyrus |
an ancient document,manuscript, or scroll written on this material |
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Cataract |
a waterfall |
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Delta |
Mouth of river. Hard for boats to pass. |
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Hieroglyphics |
a pictographic script |
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Polytheism |
belief in more than 1 or in many gods |
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Scribe |
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Old,Middle,New Kingdom |
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Pryamids |
a quadriltaral masonry mass, stepped and sharply sloping, used as a tomb or a platform for a temple |
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Hatsheput |
one of the first women to become pharaoh |
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Thutmose III |
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Akhenaten |
pharaoh of the new kingdom |
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Ramses II |
reigned from c.1279 b.c. to 1213 b.c. the Egyptians went back on the offensive |
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Rosetta stone |
a piece of black rock with 3 different languages |
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Tutankhamun |
who restored the old gods |
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subcontinent |
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indus |
a relatively dry plateau that forms the backbone of the modern state of Pakistan |
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monsoon |
a seasonal wind pattern in southern asia |
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castes |
a set of rigid categories in ancient InDia that determined a person's occupation and economic potential |
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harappa |
an advanced civilization flourished in theses cities for hundreds of years |
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Mohenjo-Daro |
an advanced civilization flourished in theses cities for hundreds of years |
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Maurya Dynasty |
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Asoka Maurya |
Buddhism,peace,stupas,toleration of other religions, walfare of the people |
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Hinduism |
had its orgins the religious beliefs of the Aryan people who settled in India |
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Siddhartha Gautama |
Enlightenment, Enlightened one, the Buddha -suffering -desire -end desire/8 fold path -nirvana |
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Buddhism |
a new doctrine |
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Stupa |
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Gupta Dynasty |
Golden Age:trade,architecture,literature,poems, mathemactics,textile,medicine,and science |
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Yellow River |
River of sorrow |
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Yangtze River |
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Chung Kuo |
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loess |
silt (very fine soil) |
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Shang Dynasty |
over 50,000 characters/writes on bambo |
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Chou Dynasty |
a federal system; land to nobles; warfare among federdal states |
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Mandate of Heaven |
Dynasty cycle `New dynasty -restores order -expands influence and trade |
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Confucius |
order,government |
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Lao-Tse |
the way |
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Taoism |
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Qin Dynasty |
shih huang ti |
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Shih Huang Ti |
unified empire- everything is the same |
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Legalism |
harsh rule |
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Great wall |
1,000s of people to finish |
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Silk road |
called silk road cause they sell silk |
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Han Dynasty |
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Crete |
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