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41 Cards in this Set
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Paleolithic Era |
The Old Stone Age - Making of tools and fire - Nomads and small groups |
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Neolithic Revolution |
Beginning of Civ - Farming and domestication of animals |
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Cradles of Civ. |
Tigris-Euphrates Rivers (Mesopotamia) Nile River (Egypt) Indus River (India) Yellow River (China) |
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Fertile Crescent |
Cradle of civilization Birthplace of Urbanization |
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Ziggurat |
Sumerian temple to the Gods |
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Hammurabi |
Creator of the most complete ancient legal code |
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Code of Hammurabi |
The most complete ancient legal code |
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Cuneiform |
Sumerian writing |
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The Epic of Gilgamesh |
The oldest epic poem |
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Osiris, Isis, and Horus |
Egyptian Gods |
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Hieroglyphics |
Traditional Egyptian writing |
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Hieratic |
Simplified Egyptian writing |
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New Kingdom |
- Imperial
- Enslaved Hebrews |
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Hyksos |
Controlled Egypt inbetween Middle and New - Brought Chariots |
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Ahmose |
Defeated the Hyksos
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Hittites |
Ancient Anatolian people |
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Ramesses II |
The last great Egyptian pharaoh |
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Saul |
First Hebrew king
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David |
Great Hebrew king
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Solomon |
Built great temple
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Division of Isreal |
Divided into Israelites and Judea
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Pentateuch |
First five books of the bible |
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Torah |
Hebrew law |
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Diaspora |
No Homeland
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Assyrians |
Hybrid-Culture
Militaristic |
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Neo-Babylonians |
Took over Mesopotamia after Akkades |
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Satrap |
Persian city-state or leader of a city-state |
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Cyrus the Great |
Great Persian king |
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Darius |
Great Persian king
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Ahuramazda |
Zoroastrian God |
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Zoroaster |
Persian Jesus/Persian prophet |
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Minoa |
Landed on Crete; expanded to Greece
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Mycenae |
Conquest from Crete to the mainland of Greece |
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Dorians |
Took over and plunged Greece into a dark age
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Homer |
Author of The Iliad and The Odyssey
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Polis |
Greek city-state |
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Herodotus |
Historian of the Persian wars
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Thucydides |
Historian of the Peloponnesian war |
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Sophocles |
Author of Oedipus the king |
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Aristophanes |
Author of Lysistrata
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Oracles |
Ancient Greek Know-it-alls |
