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52 Cards in this Set
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Give the 3 earliest known civilizations |
Mesopotamian Egyptian Ancient Hebrew |
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Give the 5 civilizations under Mesopotamian |
Sumerians Akkadians Babylonians Assyrians Neo- Babylonians |
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They invented writing such as cuneiform or "wedge shaped" script |
Sumerians |
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In sumerians village they had grown into __________ |
large city-states |
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Identify whether true or false; Sumerians worshipped different gods and goddesses and they had different rulers |
TRUE |
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Akkadians: These are people who spoke a language that is related to Hebrew and Arabic |
Semites |
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Akkadians conquered the city state of Sumer and unified them into the ____________ |
world's first empire |
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Akkadians adopted much of Sumerians culture including its ____ & _________ |
Religion and literature |
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______ is known as the strongest empire |
Babylonians |
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Babylonians: Babylonian empire reach its peak from 792 to 750 bc under King ________ |
King Hammurabi |
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Babylonians: He is the one who established one of the first set of laws. |
King Hammurabi |
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Babylonians: The first set of laws of Babylonians is known as ___________ |
The Code of Hammurabi |
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Assyrians: What is the capital of assyrians that became an important learning center? |
Nineveh |
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Assyrians: He established an early library that preserved many sumerian and babylonian writings |
King Ashurbanipal |
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Neo- Babylonians: Invaders that conquered the assyrians |
Chaldean or Chaldean invaders |
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Neo- Babylonians Who destroyed Nineveh and founding the second Babylonian empire? |
Chaldean invaders |
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True or false; Sumerian women doesn't have more opportunities than women in other most ancient civilization. |
False - since they have freedom in Sumer |
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True or false; Sumerian women could farm, take up crops, become merchants, and even join the priesthood |
True |
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She is a moon priestess and daughter of King Sargon of Akkad who composed the world's oldest surviving written poetry that is a series of sacred hymns |
Enheduanna |
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Give the 3 kingdom under Egyptian civilization |
Old kingdom Middle kingdom New kingdom |
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Old Kingdom: He established the first dynasty in build large pyramids |
King Menes |
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Old Kingdom: It serves as royal tombs where the most literature was found |
Pyramids |
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This ______ kingdom began when a family of ruling novel into best emerged victorious and its struggles with the ruler of other cities seized control of the entire kingdom and established powerful center government in Thebes. |
Middle Kingdom |
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Middle kingdom is ruled by ______ and invaded by ______ |
Amenemhet I Hyksos |
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This______ kingdom began when native egyptian rulers banded together to drive out the dreaded Hyksos |
New Kingdom |
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New kingdom: He expanded his kingdom further into africa |
Thutmose III |
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New kingdom: He fought and later form an alliance with the Hittites in the New Kingdom |
Ramses II |
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New kingdom: An IndoEuropean people living in what today is turkey |
Hittites |
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True or false: New Kingdom Ancient egyptians believes in afterlife |
True |
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True or false: New Kingdom Egyptian hymns poems and spells are collected in the Book Of The Dead |
True |
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New kingdom pharaoh Akhenaten institutes exclusive worship of the sun god ______ |
Aten |
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New Kingdom: Akhenaten and his wife Nefertiti, compose the Hymn to Aten or _____ |
Adoration of the Disk |
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Give the 4 "THE" under the Ancient Hebrew |
The Early Hebrew The Exodus The Kingdom of Israel The Divided Kingdom |
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Hebrews or Jews trace their history to Abraham, a shepherd who live in the Mesopotamian city of Ur Hebrews or Jews trace their history to Abraham, a shepherd who live in the mesopotamian city of Ur. |
The Early Hebrew |
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The Early Hebrew: crossed Euphrates river "_____" root word |
Hebrew |
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Settled in Canaan and Jacob's 12 son became the tribe ancestors in Israel |
The Early Hebrew |
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To escape Famine, the Hebrews migrated once again to Egypt and were in enslaved and forced into hard labor |
The Exodus |
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Moses brought them across the Sinai Desert back to Canaan |
The Exodus |
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The hebrews fought for 2 centuries to establish themselves and grew as a military power. |
The Exodus |
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Hebrews reunited under King Saul to form the nation called Israel then succeeded by his son in law. |
The Kingdom of Israel |
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The Kingdom of Israel: Who is the son-in-law of King Saul who founded Jerusalem as capital? |
David |
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The Kingdom of Israel: David's son who became King and founded the great temple of Solomon |
Solomon |
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The Kingdom of Israel: Solomon's death, internal fighting divided the nation into 2 kingdoms. What are the 2 kingdoms? |
Israel (North) Judah (South) |
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Israel and judah fought sometimes and sometimes allied against outside enemies. |
The Divided Kingdom |
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The Divided Kingdom: Israel fell to A________ |
Assyrians |
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The _______ Kingdom: Judah failed to the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar II. |
The Divided Kingdom |
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The Divided Kingdom: ______ the Great Of Persia conquered Babylonian and let the Jews return to Jerusalem and rebuild the Temple |
Cyrus |
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The Divided Kingdom: A flood devastates the Middle East - the story of Noah's in the Bible book of ________ |
Bible book of Genesis |
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The Divided Kingdom: Moses leads Hebrews out of the captivity in Egypt - The Bible's Book of ________ |
The Bible's Book of Exodus |
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The Divided Kingdom: For many years, the Hebrews carried their _______, the tablet which were inscribed the ten commandments. |
holiest relic |
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The Divided Kingdom: The ten commandments is in a special chest with handles that was called ______ |
Ark of the Covenant |
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The Divided Kingdom: When the temple was built the tablets were permanently housed in its most sacred area, the _______ |
Holy of Holies |
