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26 Cards in this Set
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Sumer
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Cuneiform
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Sumer
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Ziggurat
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Sumer
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Cunieform
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Akkadians
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First empire
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Akkadians
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Sargon I
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Amorites
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Codified Law (Hammurabi code)
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Amorites
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Epic of Gilgamesh (he went looking for the secret to living forever)
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Amorites
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Mathematics, astronomy, astrology
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Egyptians
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Rosetta Stone, the key to hieroglyphs (discovered by Napoleon armies)
Taken by the British |
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Akkadians
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Syllabic
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Egypt (Old Kingdom)
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Unification of Egypt
Pyramids (similar in construction to Ziggurats) Ended with civil warfare |
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Egypt (Middle Kingdom)
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Joseph arrived (Exodus 12:40)
Ended with the invasion of the Hyksos |
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Egypt (New Kingdom)
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Exodus of Israelites (approx. 1446 BC; see 1 Kings 6:1)
Hittites (who first used iron effectively) Conquests through the Nile Valley and Palestine Akhenaton (Amunhotep IV) Tutankhamen, Recovery by Ramses |
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Phoenicians
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Commercial power; colonies
Alphabet |
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Aramens
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Lingua franca, the most common language; Aramaic
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Assyrians
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Capital at Nineveh
Brutal conquerors Jonah Captured northern Israel Assyrians fell in 612 BC |
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Chadians
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Capital at Babylon (sometimes called Neo-Babylonians)
Nebuchadnezzar Captured Judah |
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Persians
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Conquered more than any other previous empire
Cyrus Darius |
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Persians
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Zoroaster (a prophet; mystical religion)
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Minoan
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Knossos, on the island of Crete
Destroyed, ca. 1630 BC Linear A |
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Mycenaean
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On Peloponnesus
Linear B |
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Athens
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Aristocratic rule through the Areopagus the archons
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Sparta
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Military state
Isolated culturally and economically Dependent on labor of helots Ruled by an oligarchy |
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Hyksos
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Dynasty 15
Control of eastern Delta Expelled by Khamose |
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Hittite Empire
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Asia minor
strong centralized government 200 ys. mesopotamian culture |
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Dorians
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possibly destroyed the Mycenaean civilization
Sea raiders |
