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23 Cards in this Set
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Broad Spectrum Gathering
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using the resources for food around you year round as apposed to travelling for your food.
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Culture
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everything about humans not inherited biologically
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Cuneiform
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the characteristical wedge made when the scribe would press the triangle shaped writing instrument into the clay and draw it across the square
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Maat
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the ideal state of the universe and society, the condition of harmony and justice
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Mishnah
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a body of oral law
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Mitochondrial DNA
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the dna created by the mother that does not combine with the male genome and thus remains stable over generations
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Neolithic Era
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new stone age (8000-6500 BC)
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Paleolithic era
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old stone age (600,000-10,000 BC)
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pictograms
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simplified drawings, a premature written word
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semi-nomadic societies
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lived on the margins of mesopotamia and egypt and created the first great monotheistic religions.
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Talmud
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developed out of the oral law of Mishnah and its interpretations
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Torah
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law
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Ziggurat
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tiered tower dedicated to a god
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Zoroastrianism
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a monotheistic religion founded by Zoroaster
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Hunter-Gatherer
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hunts and gathers for food.
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old kingdom
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one of the four groups of political centralization in Egypt (2770-2200 BC)
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middle kingdom
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one of the four groups of political centralization in Egypt (2050-1786 BC)
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new kingdom
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one of the four groups of political centralization in Egypt (1560-1086 BC)
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Ur
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city in Sumeria where Abraham first lived
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Mesopotamia
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land between 2 rivers (tigris and euphrates)
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Gilgamesh
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king of one of the Sumerian cities, of whom an epic was written.
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code of Hammurabi
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systematic law code, the oldest we can read
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Genisis
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first book in the bible, talking about creation
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