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hunter-gatherer |
A member of anomadic group whose food supply depends on hunting animals and collecting plantfoods
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Pharoah |
A king of ancientEgypt , considered a god as well as a political and military leader
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Indo-Europeans |
large,widespread family of languages, the surviving branches of which include Italic,Slavic, Baltic, Hellenic, Celtic, Germanic, and Indo-Iranian, spoken byabout half the world's population
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caste |
each of thehereditary classes of Hindu society, distinguished by relative degrees ofritual purity or pollution and of social status.
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siddhartha gautama |
GautamaBuddha, also known as Siddhārtha Gautama, Shakyamuni, or simply the Buddha, wasa sage on whose teachings Buddhism was founded
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Minoans |
were the first Europeans to have literatecivilization
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Phoenicians |
as an ancient Semitic thalassocratic civilization situated onthe western, coastal part of the Fertile Crescent and centered on the coastlineof modern Lebanon, Israel and Syria
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Ramses II |
also known as Ramesses the Great was the third pharaoh of theNineteenth Dynasty of Egypt. He is often regarded as the greatest mostcelebrated, and most powerful pharaoh of the Egyptian Empire
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Moses |
is a prophetin Abrahamic religions. According to the Hebrew Bible, he was a former Egyptianprince who later in life became a religious leader and lawgiver, to whom theauthorship of the Torah is traditionally attributed
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Ashurbanipal |
also spelledAssurbanipal or Ashshurbanipal, was an Assyrian king, the son of Esarhaddon andthe last strong king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire
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Cyrus |
Cyrus II ofPersia, commonly known as Cyrus the Great and also called Cyrus the Elder bythe Greeks, was the founder of the Achaemenid Empire
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Zoroaster |
also known asZarathustra, or as Zarathushtra Spitama was the founder of Zoroastrianismthough he was born Ying Zheng and also known as King Zheng ofQin, was the king of the state of Qin who conquered all other Warring Statesand eventually unified China in 221 BCa native speakerof Old Avestan and lived in the eastern part of the Iranian Plateau hisbirthplace is uncertain
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Confucius |
was a Chineseteacher, editor, politician, and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn period ofChinese history
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Shi Huangdi |
born Ying Zhengand also known as King Zheng of Qin, was the king of the state of Qin whoconquered all other Warring States and eventually unified China in 221 BC
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