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89 Cards in this Set
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What is B.C. stand for? |
Before Christ |
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What does AD stand for? |
in the year of our Lord or anno Domini |
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When is ancient history? |
4000 B.C.--AD 500 |
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When is medieval history? |
AD 500 -- AD 1500 |
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When is modern history? |
AD 1500--present |
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What institution has power to control, direct, and to rule in the actions and affairs of others? |
government |
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What is it called after the flood? |
Deluge |
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What was the first foundational civil ordinance? |
capital punishment |
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What is lower Mesopotamia that Noah and his descendants migrated to> |
Plain of Shinar |
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Who was the builder of the first world empire? |
Nimrod |
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Nation |
A large group of people who think of themselves as one and act in history as a single entity |
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large group of people are called? |
races |
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What does Peleg mean? |
division |
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What does the Fertile Crescent known as? |
The Cradle of Civilization |
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What are the two rivers that flow through the Fertile Crescent? |
Tigris and Euphrates Rivers |
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What is the land called in between the Euphrates and Tigris river called? |
Mesopotamia |
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What is the main part of Mesopotamia called? |
The Plain of Shinar |
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What was the site of the first postdiluvian civilization? |
Sumer |
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What is the common language of the Japhetic people? |
Indo-European |
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What are the three oldest Sumerian settlement? |
Eridu, Uruk, and Ur |
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What are the two achievements that Sumer came up with? |
Development of Agricultural techniques and Development of writing |
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What was Sumer's greatest contribution to civilization? |
the art of writing |
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What kind of writing did the Sumerians come up with? |
cuneiform |
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What are the three forms of writing that the Sumerians engaged in? |
pictograms, ideograms, and phonogram |
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What are symbols representing particular objects, such as the sun, the moon, and man, a tree, a bird? |
pictograms |
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What are symbols of things that cannot be pictured and of actions and ideas? |
ideograms |
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What is provided as the basis for the development of a syllabary? |
phonogram |
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What are signs representing syllables? |
syllabary |
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Who successfully broke the code of the trilingual cuneiform inscriptions that had been discovered earlier on the cliffs of Behistun in modern Iran? |
Sir Henry C. Rawlinson |
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When does Sumarian history begin? |
Early Dynastic Age |
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Who warred against the Sumerian city-states and united them in conquest? |
Sargon of Akkad |
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Who became the second great empire builder? |
Sargon of Akkad |
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During what period it the Akkadian, a Semitic language written with cuneiform characters, began to supplant Sumerian as the spoken language of Sumer? |
Old Akkadian Period |
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Who came to the throne of Ur about 2100 BC and founded the famed Third Dynasty of UR? |
Ur-Nammu |
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When did Ur Nammu come to the throne |
2100 BC |
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Who developed the world's most ancient law code? |
Ur-Nammu |
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What is also referred to as the Golden Age of Ur? |
Third Dynasty of UR |
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What refers to the way of life of a group of people? |
culture |
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What is a specialized division of labor, a written language, a written code of laws, an organized form of civil government, and the development of the arts and science? |
civilization |
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What is the first thing that each civilization needs to have mastered? |
must have mastery over the food supply |
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What is the process of transmitting the cultural heritage of a people from one generation to the next? |
Education |
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What was the Sumerian school called? |
edubba |
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What does edubba mean? |
tablet house |
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Who were the most highly skilled craftsman? |
Sumerian |
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What was the most important Sumerian industry in terms of commercial? |
textiles |
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What was constructed where one terrace was built upon another? |
ziggurats |
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What is the false belief that heavenly bodies influence human affairs and destinies? |
Astrology |
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What is the spreading of cultural traits and patterns called?
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cultural diffusion |
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What kind of government did the Sumerians have? |
a primitive democracy |
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Who provided central direction and military leadership in each of the city-states? |
Lugal or Sumerian king |
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What are the four parts of Sumarian society? |
nobles, commoners, clients, and the slaves |
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Who were the ruling princes and their families, palace administrators, and the more important priests of the temple land? |
noble |
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Who were the free citizens who lived in extended patriarchal families |
commoners |
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Who consisted of three groups of people: well-to-do temple employees; the other temple workers; and those that worked the state of the nobility? |
clients |
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Who worked in the temples and pa;aces and on the large estates? |
slaves |
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What dates back to the time of Abraham and is the world's oldest work of literature outside the Bible? |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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What is a long poem written in a dignified form which tells the story of a great fictitious or historical hero? |
epic |
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When did Abraham live in UR? |
2000BC |
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What was the first empire to rule the Middle East after Sumer? |
Babylon |
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Who ruled most of Mesopotamia after the fall of Ur-Nammu? |
Hammurabi |
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What was the greatest achievement of Old Babylonian Empire? |
Law and Government |
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What Indo-European people from Anatolia in Asia Minor made a daring raid upon Babylon and plundered the great city? |
Hittites |
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Who were the first people to use iron extensively? |
Hittites |
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Who seized Babylonia and established the Assyrian Empire? |
Tiglathpileser I |
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What was the capital of Assyria? |
Nineveh |
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What Assyrian monarch built the world's first great library? |
Ashurbanipal |
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Who formed a coalition with the Medes and Scythians and overthrew the Assurian Empire? |
Chaldeans |
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Who was the leader of the Chaldeans that established the Neo-Babylonian empire? |
Nabopolassar |
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Who was the son of Nabopolassar that controlled all the Fertile Crescent including the Southern kingdom of Judah |
Nebuchadnezzar |
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Who did God call "my shepherd" and "my anointed" and was surely one of the most remarkable men in world history? |
Cyrus the Great |
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What is the present day Iran? |
Persia |
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Under what two kings did the Persian Empire reach its greatest extent? |
Darius I and Xerxes I |
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Who established the world's first postal service? |
Darius |
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Who was the husband of Queen Esther? |
Ahasuerus |
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Nehemiah was the cupbearer to this king? |
Artaxerxes I |
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What religion did the Persian kings practice? |
Zoroastrianism |
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What are the three names that the holy land goes by? |
Israel, Canaan, or Palestine |
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What is the other name of the ten commandments? |
Decalogue |
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What is a phonetic system of writing in which letters are used to represent sounds rather than things or ideas? |
alphabet |
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What was the first true alphabet? |
Sinai script |
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What year was Israel the greatest nation? |
1000 BC |
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When did the Northern kingdom fall? |
721 B.C |
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When did the Southern kingdom fall? |
585 B.C. |
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When did Jerusalem fall? |
AD 70 |
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When Mohammad and his family had to flee what is this called?
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hegira |
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What were Mohamed's successors called? |
caliphs |
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Who was the pioneer missionary in Persia and indeed throughout all of the Middle East? |
Henry Martyn |
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Who is the first man of modern time to attempt to reach the Muslims of Arabia with the gospel of Christ? |
Ion-Keith Falconer |
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Who established a Arabian mission? |
Samuel Zwemer |
