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56 Cards in this Set
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time period before the writing system
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prehistory
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time after the writing system
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history
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the study of past people and cultures
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archaeology
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objects made by human beings
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artifacts
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records written down
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written records
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moving from place to place as they follow game animals and ripening fruit
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nomads
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the people who are settled in villages
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villagers
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people who plant and harvest crops
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farmers
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the oldest time period known; old stone age
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paleothic
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known as the new stone age; settled farmers
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neolithic
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when people first learned how to farm
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agricultral revolution
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the belief in more than one god/many gods
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polytheism
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the blief in one single god
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monotheism
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drawings of symbols and pictures on cave walls
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cave paintings
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thw valley areas around a river such as the nile in egypt or the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in the middle east
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river valleys
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rich soil deposited from a river
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silt
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Characteristics of Civilizations
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1.cities
2.well organized government 3.complex religions 4.job specializations 5.social classes 6.arts and architecture 7.public works 8.writing system |
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the spread and mix of beliefs and customs
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cultral diffusion
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people ranked according to their jobs(priests,merchants,artisans,peasant,farmers,slaves
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social classes
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usually ranked as the highest social class. religious leaders
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priests
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specially trained people who learned to read and write
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scribes
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lowest social class; forced to work for no money
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slaves
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the history of ancient egpyt is divided into three main periods
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Old
Middle New |
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old kingdom is known as becaouse the egytians bulit many pyramids
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pyramid age
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sun god
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amon-re
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ruled over the underworld, but was also god of the Nile
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Osiris
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had a special appealed for women,believed in life after death
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Isis
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believing in life after death
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afterlife
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were used to keep important records
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hieroglyphics
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helped unravel the mysterious writings on Egypt's great monuments
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Rosetta Stone
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river that served as a trade route
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Nile River
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female ruler of new kingdom, greatest expedition was trade with eastern Mediterranean lands
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Hathsheput
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means "he who serves aton"
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Akhenaton
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invaded epgyt and discovered iron making
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Hittites
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a plant that grows along the banks of the nile
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papyrus
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invaded and ended middle kingdom in egpyt
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hyskos
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rivers that define mesopotamia which means "between the rivers"
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Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
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poltical unit made up of a city and the surronding lands
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city-state
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built with earth and water, made first wheeled vechiles
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Sumerians
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wet clay tablets,stylus/reed pen-wedge marks
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cuneiform
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largest buildings
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ziggurats
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oldest literature,about the underworld
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The Epic of Gilgamesh
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pushe frontiers of learning nito new areas. atsronomy came about
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babylonians
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300 laws on a stone pillar
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Code of Hammurabi
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rebuilt canals,temples,walls,palaces, built the hanging gardens
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Nebuchadnezzer
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conquered largest empire yet, controlled asia minor to india
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Persians
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governor who ruled provinces
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satrap
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Perian thinker who helped to unite the empire
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Zoroaster
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persian ruler who divided the government up into provinces
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Darius
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first to have coins
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Lydian
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created the alphabet
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Phoenicans
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believed in many gods and lived by the book of Torah
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Hebrews
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scattering of people
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diaspora
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river that gives India its name
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Indus River
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indo-eurpean people who migrated across Europe and Asis seeking water and pasture for cattle
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Aryans
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written language
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Sanskirt
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