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51 Cards in this Set
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Mary Leakey
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led a scientific expedition to the region of Laetoli in Tanzania
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Donald Johanson
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his team found a complete skeleton of an adult female hominid --> Lucy
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Mary Leakey and Louis Leakey
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discovered a hominid fossil (1960)
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Richard Leakey
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wrote about the meaning of the Neanderthal burial
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Robert Braidwood
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said thousands of years ago, environmental conditions of the foothills of the Zagros Mountains favored development of agriculture.
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Leonard Woolley
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an archaeologist who unraveled the mystery of Ur
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Herodotus
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A greek historian who named Egypt the "Gift of the Nile"
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Menes
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strong-willed king of Upper Egypt. Created the double crown and united Upper and Lower Egypt
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Ra
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Sun God
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Horus
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God of Light
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Isis
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represented ideal of mother and wife
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Osiris
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god of the dead, would weight each person's dead heart
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Devourer of Souls
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if heart was heavy, he would gobble it up
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Hykos
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Chariot riders would ruled Egypt during the "Second Intermediate Period"
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Queen Ahhotep
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Helped drive out the Hyksos
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Kamose
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won a great victory over the Hyksos and his successors drove them out to Palestine
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Hatshepsut
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boldly declared herself pharaoh around 1472 BC. She spent her reign encouraging trade, not war.
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Thutmose III
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Hatshepsut's son, proved to be a much more warlike ruler
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Hittites
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Moved into Asia Minor around 1900 BC.
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Ramses II
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The pharaoh who made a treaty that promised "peace and brotherhood". Added a monumental temple at Karnak to Amon, Egypts chief god.
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Amon
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Egypts chief god
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Philistines
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the "People of the Sea", attacked The Egyptian Empire and the Hittite Kingdom.
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Libyans
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ruled egypt and erected cities from 950-730BC
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Plankhi
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a Kushite king, led an army down the Nile and overthrew the Libyans
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Assyrians
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warlike people from SW Asia who conquered Egypt in 671 BC
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Sennacherib
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sacked 89 cities and 820 villages, burned Babylon and ordered it's inhabitants killed
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Ashurbanipal
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prided himself on his ability to read in several languages. collected over 25,000 clay tablets in the fertile crescent and proved to be one of the last mighty assyrian kings
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Medes and Chaldeans
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People who forced open the Assyrian gates and burned Nineveh
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Nebuchadnezzar
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a Chaldean king who restored Babylon
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Enlil
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god of clouds and air, was among the most powerful gods. Feared as "the raging flood that has no rival"
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Wicked Udugs
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demons who caused disease, misfortune, and every kind of human trouble
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Sargon
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a conquerer who defeated all the city-states of Sumer. His dynasty lasted only about 200 years after which it declined due to internal fighting, invasions and a severe famine.
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Amorites
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Nomadic warriors who established their capital at Babylon
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Hammurabi
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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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Hittites
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Indo-European people who settled in Anatolia around 2000BC
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Phoenicians
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most powerful traders among the mediterranean
a seafaring people of SW asia who around 1100 BC began to trade and found colonies throughout the Mediterranean region |
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Abraham
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chosen by God to be the "father" of the Hebrews
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Moses
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Led hebrews out of slavery
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Deborah
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one of the most prominent judges whose leadership was unusual for a Hebrew woman
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Saul
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Chosen because of his success in driving out the Philistines
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David
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Saul's son-in-law untied the tribes, establish Jerusalem as the capital, and founded a dynasty
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Soloman
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most powerful of Hebrew kings
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Hiram
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King of Tyre
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Cyrus
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Persia's king
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Marduk
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Babylon's chief God
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Cambyses
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Cyrus's son who neglected to follow his father's wise example. Died after ruling for 8 years
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Darius
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Cambyses successor, a noble of the ruling dynasty
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Zoroaster
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a Persian prophet and religious reformer. Created the Zoroastrian religion
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Ahura Mada
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God of truth and light
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Ahriman
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God of evil and darkness
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Mithra
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A Zoroastrianism god
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