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13 Cards in this Set
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Which of the three major city-states is seen as being the birthplace of writing, irrigation, and the wheel?
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Sumer
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What is cuneiform?
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Wedge-shaped written language developed by Samaritans in Mesopotamia
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What spurred trade throughout the Middle East, Africa, and Europe circa 3000 BC? What happened to the landscape(geography) as a result of this increased trade?
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Frankincense
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Whose language would become the basis for Hebrew, Latin and Greek? How did this language spread?
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Phoenicians
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Who is Zoroaster and Ahura Mazada? Why are they significant?
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Zoroaster- A Persian prophet
Ahura Mazada- God's name in Zoroasterism? |
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How would you describe Alexander the Great's "odd sort of diplomacy"?
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Conquer and then combined cultures
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Why did Ptolemy have such a beef with Seleucus I Nicator?
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Seleucus claimed Persia after Alexander the Great died. Ptolemy didn't like it.
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What is disturbing about the practices of the librarians at the Library of Alexandria?
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Ptolemy requested that all rulers of the world band their most important books. Then, the copyists duplicated them but kept the original. The person who gave them it got back the copy.
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Why was Octavian so pissed off at Cleopatra and Marc Antony?
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Cleopatra and Marc Antony combined to go after Octavian. Marc Antony was ruling with Octavian and feel in love with Cleopatra which then started a war.
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Which Roman emperor name Christianity as its official religion?
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Constantine
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What scientific reason is offered for why the Middle East(now hot and arid) would be deemed the "Fertile Crescent" thousands of years ago?
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It was closer to the Ice Age and the ability to produce fertile land in the colder climates.
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Why was Jericho seen as being a geographically significant in ancient times?
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It was on a hill and they got fresh water, a plentiful supply of food, access for trading, and the wall was there to protect them.
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What types of people lived in Palenstine in the 7th century CE(under Byzantine rule)?
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Christians, Jews, Arabs, and Pagons
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