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Who was sargon
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Ruler of neighbooring Akkad, conquered and invaded Sumer's city-states
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who built the first empire
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sargon
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who is marduk
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babylonian god
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who is Assurbanipal
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he was the king of nineveh, founded the first library, the scirbes wrote everything in cuneiform and provided a wealth of info
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assur
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god of the assyrians
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who was - Nebuchadnezzar
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ruthless and agressive king of babylon who rebuilt palaces, temples, buildings, canals , zigguarts and more. he rebuilt hanging gardens for his wife who was homesick
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cyrus the great
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largest empire, from asia minor to idea
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daris
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ruled persia, tolerance of relgions, made a money economy, split his land into provinces (satrap)
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zoroaster
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united his empire - made a new religion for everybody, rejected their gods, taught of ahura mazda who was good contstant battle iwth evil prince
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zend-avesta
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bok that spoke of the gods, said that ahura won
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judgement day
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judged everybody if they have done good or not
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Phoenicians
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fame from sailors and trading, string of cities - along coast of Mediterranean
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manfucaturing
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tyerian dye - from snails of tyre
scroll - egyptian paper, for books glass from sand |
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trade (phoenicans)
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tin from england
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babylon
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imporvoed irrigtion, good army, promoted murduk
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hittites
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turned ore to iron, could do it cheapily, cheap way to arm more people,
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assyrian
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upper tigris, feared warriors
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israel split
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north = israel
south = judah |
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israel fallen
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irsael = assyrians (cryus)
judha = babylon (nebazzner) |
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releasing the jews
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when cryus took over nebanezzer he freed the jews
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perciles
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greek statesman - democracy culture
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platos book
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the repubic - his perf gov't
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artistotle
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good and bad examples of everything
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minoan civilzation
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island of crete in aegean sea - florished trade routes then vanished
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- Mycenaean civilization
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peloponnesan peninsula , sea trading strong military some written recrds
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oligarchies
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govt controled by the people
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archigaries
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land holding elite ruled
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peloponnesian war
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athen vs sparta , sparta won, marthon ran to tell everyone
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