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31 Cards in this Set
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Louis Leakey |
paleoanthropologist and archaeologist |
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Radiation Theory |
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Cro-Magnon |
Cro-Magnon is a common name that has been used to describe the first early modern humans of the European Upper Paleolithic |
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Middle Kingdom |
is the period in the history of ancient Egypt between about 2000 BC and 1700 BC, stretching from the establishment of the Eleventh Dynasty to the end of the Twelfth Dynasty |
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Abraham |
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Hatshepsut |
Hatshepsut was the daughter of Thutmose I and his primary wife Ahmes. Her husband Thutmose II was the son of Thutmose I and a secondary wife named Mutneferet |
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Pharaoh |
a ruler in ancient Egypt. |
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Mesopotamia |
Mesopotamia is a name for the area of the Tigris–Euphrates river system, corresponding to modern-day Iraq, Kuwait, the northeastern section of Syria and to a much lesser extent southeastern Turkey and smaller parts of southwestern Iran |
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Babylonians |
Babylonia was an ancient Akkadian-speaking Semitic state and cultural region based in central-southern Mesopotamia |
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Lydians |
The Lydians were an Anatolian people living in Lydia, a region in western Anatolia, who spoke the distinctive Lydian language |
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Assyrians |
Assyria was a major Mesopotamian East Semitic kingdom, and empire, of the Ancient Near East, existing as an independent state for a period of approximately nineteen centuries |
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Paleolithic Era |
The cultural period of the Stone Age that began about 2.5 to 2 million years ago, marked by the earliest use of tools made of chipped stone. |
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Parallel Evolution Theory |
Parallel evolution is the independent evolution of similar traits, starting from a similar ancestral condition. |
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Agricultural Revolution |
is a period of transition from the pre-agricultural period characterized by a Paleolithic diet, into an agricultural period |
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New Kingdom |
The New Kingdom of Egypt, also referred to as the Egyptian Empire, is the period in ancient Egyptian history between the 16th century BC |
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Narmer |
Narmer was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh of the Early Dynastic Period |
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Thutmose 3 |
Thutmose III was the sixth Pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty |
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Vizier |
a high official in some Muslim countries |
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Cunieform |
denoting or relating to the wedge-shaped characters used in the ancient writing systems of Mesopotamia surviving mainly impressed on clay tablets. |
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Hammurabi |
Hammurabi was the sixth Amorite king of Babylon from 1792 BC to 1750 BC |
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Israelites |
a member of the ancient Hebrew nation, especially in the period from the Exodus to the Babylonian Captivity |
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Persians |
The Persian people are an Iranian people who speak the modern Persian language and closely akin Iranian dialects and languages |
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Neolithic Era |
was a period in the development of human technology, beginning |
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Neanderthal |
The Neanderthals are an extinct species of human in the genus Homo. |
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Old Kingdom |
was one of the most dynamic periods in the development of Egyptian art. |
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Ramses 2 |
Ramesses II, also known as Ramesses the Great, was the third pharaoh of the Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt. He is often regarded as the greatest, most celebrated, and most powerful pharaoh of the Egyptian Empire. |
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Hyksos |
a people of mixed Semitic and Asian descent who invaded Egypt and settled in the Nile delta circa |
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Theocracy |
the commonwealth of Israel from the time of Moses until the election of Saul as King |
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Sumerians |
The Sumerians were one of the earliest urban societies to emerge in the world, in Southern Mesopotamia more than 5000 years ago. They developed a writing system whose wedge-shaped strokes would influence the style of scripts in the same geographical area |
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Phoenicians |
Phoenicia was an ancient Semitic civilization situated on the western, coastal part of the Fertile Crescent and centered on the coastline of modern Lebanon |
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Moses |
Moses was, according to the Hebrew Bible, a former Egyptian prince later turned prophet, religious leader and lawgiver |
