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27 Cards in this Set
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What are the 2 divisions of the stone age? When did the latter start?
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Paleolithic
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Where and when did the first cities develop?
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Mesopotamia 4000 BCE
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When was the Bronze Age?
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4,000-1,000 BCE
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Empire
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A political Unit controlling formerly independent territories.
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Where did the first farms emerge?
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Fertile Crescent
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Neolithic Revolution
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When people began to farm and domesticate animals (12,000 years ago)
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When was it common to have herds for food?
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7000 BCE
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Invention of the wheel
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3000 BCE
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What Kind of Government first existed in Mesopotamia?
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Theocracy
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Who invented writing and for what purpose? What was it called
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Sumerians to do accounting. Cuneiform
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Who wrote the oldest poetry discovered?
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Enheduanna, daughter of king sargon of the city of Akkad.
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How was the worlds first empire developed? When?
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Metallurgy, Akkadia
2300 BCE |
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Who defeated the Akkaidians? And when?
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The Gutians, 2200 BCE
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Who replaced the Akkadians? When?
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Assyria and Babylonia in 2000 BCE
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How did Assyria come to power?
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The were the middlemen in trade between Angolia and S. Mesopotamia. Leading Merchants
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Who is Shamash?
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The Babylonian sun god, and god of justice.
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What did Hammurabi's code divide the city into?
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3 categories:
free persons commoners slaves |
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What are Mesopotamia's most influential acheivements?
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moathematics, and astronomy
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When was the height of Egyptian power?
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The New Kingdom (1500-1000 BCE)
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What did King Menes do for Egypt?
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He united upper and lower Egypt in 3100 BCE
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What does Maat mean?
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truth or justice or correct balance
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What did the king do to ensure safety and stability?
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Observed the Ritual.
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Who commissioned the biggest pyramid in Egypt?
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King Cheops
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When and why did the Old Kingdom fall apart?
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2000 BCE, The climate changed and the annual flood shrank
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How was the new kingdom started
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Leaders of Thebes defeated the Hyksos around 1500 BCE
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What was the greatest threat to the New Kingdom?
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the Hittite kingdom of anatolia
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How did the persian kingdom begin?
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Cyrus overthrew Median rule in Persia
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