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15 Cards in this Set
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Hammurabi |
(ca. 1792-1750 BCE) - Founder of the Babylonian Empire. Seized power by pitting his enemies against each other and striking once they'd exhausted themselves. |
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Plutocracy |
Rule of the wealthy. |
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
Story of a powerful but egotistical king who's arrogance leads him to offend the gods. |
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Book of The Dead |
Collection of incantations, spells, praise poems and answers to riddles intended to guide Egyptian royalty before the god Osiris in the House of Judgement. |
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Pharaoh |
King of New Kingdom Egypt. |
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Hyksos Ascendancy |
When the foreign workers of the Hyksos class rose to rule Egypt for seventy years. Also known as the Second Intermediate Period. (1640-1570 BCE) |
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Hatshepsut |
(r ca. 1478-1458 BCE) - Queen that led Egypt through a period of prosperity and peace. Credited with construction of The Valley of The Kings, a mortuary consisting of broad terraces and colonnades dug into the river valley of Deir ep-Bahri, near Thebes. |
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Monotheism |
Belief in a single, supreme deity |
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Akhenaten |
Amenhotep IV, renamed himself to "the one who worships Aten " Challenged the power of the priestly caste by ordering all to worship Aten, the sunrise god, and forsake their patron gods. Spread monotheism. |
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Ramses II |
(r 1279-1212 BCE) Egypt's only ruler known as "the Great." Restored the empire's fortunes, built temples, statues and palaces on a colossal scale. Last great ruler before the Sea People invaded. |
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Indo-European |
The language-base of the people that spread outward from the north of the Black Sea into Europe and Asia. |
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Cyrus The Great |
(r. 559-530 BCE) First uniter and ruler of Persia. Would unite its various tribes and sweep over Medes and Lydia. Supposedly energetic and charismatic. |
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Zoroastrianism |
The religion of fire. The first transnational Western religion. Based off Zoraster (Greek), or Zarathustra in Persian, who claimed to have received a vision from the "Wise Lord," Ahura Mazda, the eternal god, of the battle between good and evil, and humanity's part in it. |
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Avesta |
Holy book of the Zoroastrians. Only remains in fragments since its destruction in holy wars with Islam. |
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Magi |
Zoroastrian priests. |
