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38 Cards in this Set
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What is the chronological order of the ancient civilizations?
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Sumer
Babylon I Hittites Phonecians Hebrews Assyrians Chaldeans Persians |
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a SW Asia kingdom that controlled a large empire from about 850BC-612BC
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Assyrians
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sacked 89 cities and 820 villages, burned Babylon and ordered it's inhabitants killed
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Sennacherib
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Assyria's capital along the Tigris river established by King Sennacherib
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Nineveh
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Prided himself on his ability to read in several languages and collected more than 25,000 clay tablets from the Fertile Crescent. Proved to be one of the last mighty Assyrian kinds
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Ashurbanipal
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SW Asian peoples who helped destroy the Assyrian empire
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Medes and Chaldeans
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a Chaldean king who restored Babylon
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Nebuchadnezzar
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an arc of land that provides some of the best farming in SW asia
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Fertile Crescent
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a thick bed of mud
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silt
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the bringing of water to crop fields by means of canals and ditches
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irrigation
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each city and the surrounding land it controlled
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city-state
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rulers from a single family
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dynasty
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process of a new idea or product spreading from one culture to another
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cultural diffusion
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belief in many gods
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polytheism
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brings together several peoples, nations, or previously independent states under the control of one ruler
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empire
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a leader of the Babylonian empire whose most enduring legacy is the code of laws he put together
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Hammurabi
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indo-european people who settled in anatolia around 2000 bc
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hittites
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a huge peninsula in modern-day Turkey that juts out into the Black and Mediterranean Seas (asia minor)
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anatolia
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a seafaring people of SW Asia, who around 1100 BC began to trade and found colonies throughout the Mediterranean region
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Phoenicians
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ancient home of the Hebrews
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Canaan
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the first five books of the Hebrew Bible; considered to be most sacred writings in their tradition
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Torah
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chosen by God to be the "father" of the Hebrews
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Abraham
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belief in a single god
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monotheism
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a mutual promise between God and the founder of the Hebrew people
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covenant
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led Hebrews out of slavery
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Moses
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a new kingdom lasting 100 years
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Israel
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peace money paid by a weaker power to a stronger power
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tribute
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Persia's king
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Cyrus
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Cyrus's son who neglected to follow his father's wise example. Died after 8 years
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Cambyses
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Cambyses' successor, a noble of the ruling dynasty
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Darius
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a governor who ruled locally
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satrap
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a road with a distance of 1,677 miles
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royal road
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a persian prophet and religious reformer
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zoroaster
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What was the name of the collection of Holy writings in the Zoroastrian religion?
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Avestor
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God of truth and light
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Ahura Mazda
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God of Evil and darkness
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Ahriman
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a Zoroastrianism God
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Mithra
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What is the Code of the Hammurabi?
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a collection of existing rules, judgements and laws (282)
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