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Desciribe the Neolithic revolution
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Revolution when hunting and gathering became producing food and systematic agriculture.
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What were the Tigris and Euphrates and where were they located?
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They were rivers located in Mesopotamia
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What is cuneiform?
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The writing system of the Sumerians
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What was the gift of the nile?
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The Nile brought food, nutrients, water, trade, and many other things to the egyptians. Civilizations started to appear on the banks of the nile.
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Who was khufu?
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Constructed the pyramid of Giza was built. Son of King Snefru
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What are hieroglyphics?
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Th writing system of the Egyptians.
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Who was Hatshepsut?
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First lady pharaoh of Egypt whom improved trade in Egypt
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What it Monotheism?
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Believing in one god
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Exodus
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Helped Moses to lead the Hebrews out of Egypt and away from King Ramses II
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what brought about Babylonian captivity?
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Hammurabi captured the city state of Babylon and made the Babylonians his captives.
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Who were the missionaries of civilization?
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Missionaries who brought their religion from place to place and shared it.
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Zoroaster
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Introduced concept of heaven to the Persians and the concept of everyone having good/evil in them
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What wad the significance of the indus river valley?
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Supported flourishing civilization in India
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What is mohenjaro-daro?
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One of 2 major cities that was the heart of the civilization in India. Oldest civilization
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What are ascetics?
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When the Buddha (siddhartha) wnt on a ride with his servant and he saw the 5 sights, he saw an ascetic, or a person living on the street.
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The Buddha
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Siddhartha
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What was the golden age of china?
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Han empire
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What is an oligarchy?
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Example: sparta. Government ruled by one power (ephors)
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Who was Kung Fu-tzu and what did he establish?
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He was a philosopher whom established the 5 relationships.
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Who was the face that launched a thousand ships?
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Helen
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What as the first greek civilization?
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Minoan on Crete
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What was arête?
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Greek way of life
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The hoplities formed what? (military formation)
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Phalanx
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Who was Hesiod?
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Greek poet whom disliked aristocrats
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Who was darius?
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Persian king during the 1st Persian war
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What Greek city did the Ionian Greeks burn over taxes?
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Sardis
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What were paterfamilias?
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The founding fathers of Rome (patricians)
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Who was Alexander the great?
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He conquered Persia, Egypt, and as far east as the Indus river in India
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Who was cincinnatus
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A dictator whom was presented with a spot in the government, did his time, and then returned to his farm life.
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Cincinnatus is an example of what?
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Gravitas
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What was sanguntum?
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City in Spain which Hannibal attacked and then wanted Hannibal to be surrendered to them.
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Why did the Romans go to Sicily in the first place?
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To fight off pirates in messenia
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Hamlicar was general door which army?
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Carthaginian
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What happened at the battle of zama between Hannibal and sipio?
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Sipio defeated Hannibal
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What did the defeat of Hannibal at zama lead to?
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The fall of carthage
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Who tried to gain control himself but was exposed by ciciro?
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Catullus
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What was the founding place of cuneiform?
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ilam
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Which group invaded Egypt by horse and chariot?
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The Hyksos
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Who was the father of the Jewish religion?
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Abraham
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Who was the god of the hebrews?
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Yahweh
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Who made astrology a science in Egypt?
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The chaldeans
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What was the bible of zorastrians called?
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The avesta
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Who killed the harrapans??
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The Dravidians
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What Is the oldest city in India?
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Harappa
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Where was the first Persian war located?
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The Ionian coast
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Who made harsh laws in Sparta? In Athens?
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Sparta- Lycurgus
Athens- draco |
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What was another word for the hellsport?
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Darnanelles
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Who was Hellenistic?
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Alexander the great
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Where did the Latins live?
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Latium
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What 3 people made up the first triumvirate?
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Caesar, Pompey, and crausses
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What es rhetoric?
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Are of persuasive speaking
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Who drove the hikes out of Egypt?
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Thutmose
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What was a covenant?
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An agreement
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Who were the 2 Hebrew kings?
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Saul and David
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Of what heritage was nebuchadezzar?
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Babylonian
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The sea peoples were.....?
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Phoenician
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What dies rajah mean?
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Noble
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What was loyang?
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The Chinese capital during the Shang dynasty
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What city did Spartans conquer, making them helots?
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Messina
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Who was the law giver in athens?
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Solon
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What types of plays did Aristophanes write?
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Comedies
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What was the philosophy of stoicism?
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To be tough and strong
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What was the declaration of tombstones called?
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Funerary art
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How many men is a legion?
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6000
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How many men is a cohort?
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600 men
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How many men is a century?
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100
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WHat was the name of the navy war fought in northern Sicily?
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Battle of mylae
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What did sparticus do?
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Led the slave rebellion in Rome
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Who was the pharaoh when the direst pyramid was built?
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Zosar
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Who built the first pyramid?
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Imhotep
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Who believed in monotheism?
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Akenaten
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WHAT WAS THE FIRST COMMERCIAL EMPIRE????
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Phoenicia!!!
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Who governed the satrapis?
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Satraps
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Who made Confucius administrator of justice?
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Duke of Lu
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What metal did Greeks use for money?
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Iron
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Who was the great Athenian political conformist?
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Cleisthenes
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The women of Rome worshiped who?
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Isis
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The equestrians were also known as the
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Equites
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Where is the rubicon river located?
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Italy
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What aaa the myth about the rubicon river
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That no general could pass over it with his army.
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Where were the 12 tables posted?
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In the forum
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What was the name of caligulas horse
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Icititus
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Who was the senator that said "Carthage must be destroyed"
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Cato
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