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80 Cards in this Set
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Which civilization had ziggurats?
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Sumerians
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In which civilization is the afterlife a "cave of no return"?
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Sumerians
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Which civilization worshipped Assur, the god of war?
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Assyrians
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In which civilization was trade important?
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Phoenicians
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2 Gods, Good and Evil
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Persians
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Ethical Monotheism
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Hebrews
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10 Commandments and Old Testament
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Hebrews
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Polytheistic, no afterlife, human sacrifice
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Phoenecians
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Invented wheel, sail, plow, cuneiform
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Sumerians
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Sargon and Ur-Nammu
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Akkadians
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First Law Code
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Akkadians
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Code of Laws with 282 specific laws that applied to different people?
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Babylonians
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Hammurabi
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Babylonians
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Invented iron
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Hittites
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Most hated of the ancient peoples, focused mostly on war
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Assyrians
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Libraries
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Assyrians
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Ninevah, surrounded by huge wall
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Assyrians
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Assurbanipal, emperor
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Assyrians
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Calendar within minutes of todays
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New Babylonians
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Hanging Gardens
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New Babylonians
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Nebuchadnezzar
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New Babylonians
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Coined Money
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Lydians
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Cyrus, Xerxes, and Darius, tolerant rulers
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Persians
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Purple Dye, alphabet
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Phoenecians
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Solomon, David, Moses, Abraham
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Hebrews
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Which Egyptian kingdom was Narmur from?
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Old Kingdom
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2 kingdoms of Egypt?
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Upper and Lower Egypt
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Which Egyptian age had pyramids and theocracy?
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Old
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Papyrus
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Paper made of reeds
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Hieroglyphs
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complex pictographs
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Theocracy
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Government rule based on religious authority
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Hatshepsut
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Female pharoah, New Kingdom
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Ramses II
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Treaty maker
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Thutmose III
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Warlike, expanded empire
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Empire Age of Egypt
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New Kingdom
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Valley of Kings
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Middle Kingdom
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Chariots were used in which Egyptian kingdom?
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New
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Scribes
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Men of learning who could write
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What did Herodotus want to know about the pyramids?
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How they were built
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Government of Egypt
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Theocracy
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Inundation
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Annual Predictable overflow of Nile River
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Pharoah
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Ruler of ancient Egypt, living son of Re
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Valley of Kings
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Replaced pyramids, not easily broken into, "condos" for the dead
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Great Pyramid was built in
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Giza
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Ka
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Spiritual double, needed an intact body to recognize
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Mustaba
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Rectangular tomb for the nobles
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Necropolis
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City of the dead, contained temples and massive walls
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Who was the great pyramid built for?
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Khufu
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How big is the Great Pyramid?
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2,000,000 blocks of stone, 13 acres
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Rosetta stone
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Translated hieroglyphics into Greek
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Embalming
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Mummification, took 70 days
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Isis
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Osiris's wife
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Themes of legend of Osiris
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Mummification, pharoah is king in afterlife
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Only group in Egypt with social mobility
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scribes
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Loess
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Yellow silt from Huang He river
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Anyang
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Capital of ancient Shang
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Mandate of Heaven
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balance between good and evil, must be kept or emperor gets thrown out
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Mhat
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balance between good and evil, must be kept or emperor gets thrown out
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Feudalism
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King gives land and peasant to lords in exchange for military service
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What was unique about ancient Chinese writing?
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No correlation between written and spoken language, each character stood for a syllable
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Dynastic Cycle
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Pattern of rise and fall of dynasties
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Role of family
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Elders were respected, women were inferior
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Oracle bones
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tortoise shells with messages written on them
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Ancestor Worship
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belief that ancestors provide and guide a family; ancestors were given gifts
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Which civilization invented crossbows?
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The Chinese
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Which civilization had advanced metalworking?
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The Chinese
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Planned Gridlike Cities were found in what civ?
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Ancient India
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Shiva
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Major Hindu god
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Sophisticated plumbing was in which civ?
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Ancient India
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Indus and Ganges rivers in which area?
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India
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Thriving trade with gold, semiprecious stones, silver, and cotton in which civilization?
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Ancient India
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Monsoon
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Winds, blew rain in huge amounts, caused unpredictable floods
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Wu-Ding
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13th century BC Chinese king
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Foo-now
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Wife of Wu-Ding, female general
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Which group of people in ancient Chinese civ were drunks and alcoholics?
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Aristocrats and kings
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Was the great wall of China solid rock?
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No, 2 walls with dirt and dead bodies in between
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Torture
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the way the Chinese kept people in line
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Psychological warfare
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sending convicts to the front lines to commit suicide in front of the enemy to freak 'em out
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Passports were inventedy by which civ?
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The Chinese
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How was flooding in ancient China curbed?
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Dams, canals, locks
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