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64 Cards in this Set
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1) Name of the famous "Female Pharaoh" who ruled Egypt in the 18th Dynasty?
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HATSHEPSUT
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2) Assyrian King who lost a large army to a plague during the reign of Hezekiah?
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Sennacharib
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3) Sumerians foretold the future by looking at what part of a sacrificed animal?
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Liver
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4) About when did the Neolithic Period Begin in the Fertile Crescent?
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10,000BC
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5) Which famous Akkadian king conquered the Sumerians in ca. 2350 B.C.?
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Sargon I
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6) The Egyptian pharaoh whose gold-filled tomb Howard Carter found in 1922 was ?
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King Tutankhamun or King Tut
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7) About when were the Great Pyramids built in Egypt?
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2600 BC
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8) What people invented the first true alphabet?
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Canaanites/Phoenicians
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9) The most important king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire was?
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Nebuchadnezzar II
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10) The most important development in the Niolithic period was?
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Domestication of plants and animals
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11) Who Caused the end of the Hittite Empire in 1200 B.C.?
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Invaded by the Coalition of Sea Peoples
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12) The people of the ancient city of Carthage were?
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Canaanites
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13) According to the early date, who was the pharaoh of the Exodus?
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Amenhotep II
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14) According to the Late date, who was the pharaoh of the Exodus?
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Ramses II
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15) In the Law Code of Hammurabi how was an adulterous woman to be executed?
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Tied to the man and drowned
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16) Canaanites of the Old Testament were called by what name by the Greeks?
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Phoenicians - which means Phoenix
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17) About when was Zoroaster Born?
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628 B.C.
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18) Which city was the capital of the Assyrian Empire?
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Nineveh
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19) What were satraps?
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Provincial governor
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20) The Egyptian king who first united Upper and Lower Egypt into one nation in ca. 3100 B.C. and who also founded the First Dynasty in Egypt was?
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Menes
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21) The capital city of the Hittite Empire was?
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Hattusha
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22) The Kingdom of Urartu Known in the Old Testament as?
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Ararat
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23) The Indo-Aryan rulers of the Kingdom of Mitanni worshiped several deities which were also worshiped by the Indo-Aryan people of?
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India
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24) Name of the Babylonian king who left his son Belshazzar to rule for him?
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Nabonidus
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25) A stela or stele is?
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Tombstone dedicated to a god
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26) Which Assyrian king carried the Ten Northern Tribes of Israel into captivity?
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Sargon II ?
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27) The ancient Babylonian Flood story is found in?
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Epic of Gilgamesh
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28) Harappa and Mohenjo-daro were?
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Major cities in Indus River Civilization
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29) Ziggurats were?
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Temples
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30)Which Jewish king is shown paying tribute to the Assyrian King Shalmaneser III on the Black Obelisk?
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King Jehu
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31) The first ancient people who minted coins were the?
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Lydians
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32) The style of writing invented by the ancient Egyptians is today called?
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Hieroglyphs
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33) What did Assyrian King Ashurbanipal do with the corpses of the Babylonians?
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Cut off heads and form piles to count?
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34)Which Pharaoh supposedly tried to establish a form of "monotheism" in Egypt?
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Akhenaten
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35) Which Persian king captured the city of Babylon in 539 B.C.?
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Cyrus the Great
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36) Which people were the first to invent writing?
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Summarians
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37) During the Old Kingdom most of the kings of Egypt were buried?
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In Pyramids
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38) The international language of both the Babylonian and Persian Empres was?
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Aramaic?
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39) In "Hammurabi's Law Code," the largest number of laws deal with?
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Family Law, Social Class differences
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40) What Persian king in 538 B.C. allowed the Jews to return to Israel?
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Cyrus the Great
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41) Which Hebrew leader left his home in Ur in Mesopotamia to migrate Palestine?
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Abraham
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42) The largest group of people in the Kingdom of Mitanni was?
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Horites
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43) The ancient Chaldeans are bettre known today as the?
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Babylonians
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44) Which Persian king added Egypt to the Persian Empire?
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Cambyses
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Apis (Egyptian Religion)
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Sacred Bull
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Osiris (Egyptian Religion)
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god of dead, sun deity, green face
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Cartouche (Egyptian Religion)
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oval shaped inscription with the king’s name in it
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Isis (Egyptian Religion)
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Mother of Horus (goddess of sex, Osiris wife and sister)
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Thoth (Egyptian Religion)
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god of scribes and wisdom
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Horus (Egyptian Religion)
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Associated with Amon-Re (related to the Nile and to the sun)
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Ankh (Egyptian Religion)
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cross symbol of life
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Aton (Egyptian Religion)
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sun disk (worshiped by Akhenaton)
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Maat (Egyptian Religion)
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goddess of justice
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Anubis (Egyptian Religion)
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god of mummification (jackal head)
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Marduk (Ancient Religions)
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Babylonian king of the gods
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Zend Avesta (Ancient Religions)
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Persian holy book
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Book of the Dead (Ancient Religions)
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Egyptian holy book
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Ishtar (Ancient Religions)
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goddess of fertility for Babylonian (sex)
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Baal Hadad (Ancient Religions)
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Canaanite storm god
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Yahweh (Ancient Religions)
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Hebrew God
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Siva or Shiva (Ancient Religions)
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Hindu god worshipped by the Mitanni
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Asherah (Ancient Religions)
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Wife of El, Canaanites
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Rig Veda (Ancient Religions)
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Hindu holy book
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Ahura Mazda (Ancient Religions)
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“wise lord” good god of Zoroastrianism
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