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62 Cards in this Set
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Greek name for "land between two rivers"
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MESOPOTAMIA
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Term for the arabe land between the Tigris & Euphrates rivers
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FERTILE CRESCENT
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Two rivers in modern-day Iraq in which one of the first civilizations was created
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TIGRIS & EUPHRATES
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Era known as the Old Stone Age; known for simple tools, hunting & gathering, and fire
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PALEOLITHIC
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Era known as the New Stone Age; resulted in development of agriculture and settlements
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NEOLITHIC
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Term for the study of a group's way of life
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CULTURE
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Scientists who uncover artifacts of the past
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ARCHAEOLOGISTS
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Scientists who study artifacts and explain humans' physical and cultural developments
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ANTHROPOLOGISTS
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One of the oldest remains of humans found in the Great Rift Valley by the Leakey family
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LUCY
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Highly mobile people who move from place to place
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NOMAD
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Type of farmin in which tress are cut and burned to create fertilized soil
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SLASH AND BURN FARMING
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Taming of animals
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DOMESTICATION
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Term for a complex culture with: advanced cities, specialized workers, complex institutions, record keeping, and advanced technology
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CIVILIZATION
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Trading one item for another item
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BARTER
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Writing system created in Sumer consisting of pictographs
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CUNEIFORM
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Term for professional record keepers; those that were trained to write
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SCRIBES
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Wedge-shaped instrument used to write
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STYLUS
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Term for a skilled worker
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ARTISAN
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Term for the development of skills in a specific kind of work besides farming
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SPECIALIZATION
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Stepped pyramid; means "mountain of god"; used for religious and political ceremonies
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ZIGGURAT
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A religion which believes in many gods
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POLYTHEISTIC
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Term for a political unit that includes a city and the surrounding territory
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CITY-STATE
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A series of rulers from a single family
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DYNASTY
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Term for the exchange of ideas and items from one culture to another
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CULTURAL DIFFUSION
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Term for the presence of many different cultures in one place
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CULTURAL DIVERSITY
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Babylonian law code based on the idea of "eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth"
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HAMMURABI'S CODE
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Term for written down
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CODIFIED
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Nickname for the fertile soil deposited by the Nile's predictable flooding
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"GIFT OF THE NILE"
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Term for rich silt
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ALLUVIAL
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Term for areas in the Nile which contain boulders which turn river into churning rapids
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CATARACTS
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Broad, triangular area formed by deposits of silt at the mouth of a river
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DELTA
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Type of government in which rule is based on religious authority
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THEOCRACY
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Process of embalming and drying a corpse
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MUMMIFICATION
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Term for Egyptian god-kings
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PHARAOHS
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Resting place for pharaohs
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PYRAMIDS
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Term for a god or goddess
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DEITY
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Egyptian pictographic writing
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HIEROGLYPHICS
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Reeds that grow next to the Nile and are used to make paper
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PAPYRUS
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Term for India since the Himalayas separate the land mass from the rest of Asia
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SUBCONTINENT
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Term for a seasonal wind
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MONSOON
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Section of India's northern mountains that allowed invaders
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HINDU KUSH
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Pass in the Hindu Kush mountains that allowed Aryan invaders to enter
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KHYBER PASS
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Plain formed by two major Indian rivers where most of the settlement and agriculture occurred
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Indo-Gangetic Plain
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Holy river of India
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Ganges River
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Two Indus cities that show evidence of Indus Valley civilization
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Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro
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Early invaders of India that established Hinduism in India
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ARYANS
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Yellowish silt found in Yellow River
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LOESS
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One of the capital cities of the Shang dynasty
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ANYANG
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Payment made to keep peace
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TRIBUTE
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Animal bones and tortoise shells on which priests scratched questions for the gods
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ORACLE BONES
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Belief that a ruler must rule wisely and justly in order to continue ruling
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MANDATE OF HEAVEN
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A political system in which nobles, or lords, are granted the use of lands that kegally belong to the king. In return nobles owe loyalty and military service to the king
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FEUDALISM
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Term for the patterns of the rise, decline, and replacement of dynasties
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DYNASTIC CYCLE
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The art of making silk
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SERICULTURE
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Term Chinese gave to anyone who was not Chinese
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BARBARIAN
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Term for government workers
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BUREAUCRACY
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Advisor to Egyptian pharaoh
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VIZIER
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Rule by a family
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DYNASTY
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Family/society dominated by men
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PATRIARCHAL
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Family/society deminated by women
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MATRIARCHAL
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Respect for parents/family/elders
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FILIAL PIETY
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Fortified center of a city
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CITADEL
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