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| The original material. Direct source. |
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| A material derived from a primary or multiple primary sources. I.e. a thesis, dissertation, review, etc. |
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| The prehistory period of mankind. |
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| The wide scale human transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture and animal domestication. |
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| A volcanic rock often used to make tools. |
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| The script of the ancient Mesopotamians. |
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| Large pyramid like structures built by Mesopotamians for their local religion. |
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| The pictographic written language of the ancient Egyptians. |
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| A culture from West Asia that invaded the Nile Delta during the Second Intermediate Period. |
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| Pharaoh that changed the religion of Egypt to worship the god Aton. |
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| The most powerful woman Pharaoh. "The world first powerful woman." |
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| The wife of Akhenaten. Reigned during the wealthiest point of Egypts ancient history. |
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| "The Young Pharaoh." His mummy discovery was very famous. |
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| The God of Egypt as set by Akhenaton. Depicted as the Sun. |
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| The successful use of chariots is accredited to them. They are from Anatolia, modern day Turkey. |
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| Among the 'Sea Peoples'. Modern day Palestine. |
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| A Semitic people from modern day Lebanon. Famous for their use of purple dye. |
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| The belief and worship of a single god without discrediting the gods of other religions. |
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| The belief that there is only one god. |
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| The captivity of the Jewish people (Hebrews) in Babylon. |
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| The area in the Fertile Crescent. Contained many ancient civilizations. |
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| A creature of Archaic Greek myth. He lives in a labyrinth and eats children. |
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| The area between the Tigirs and Euphrates rivers. |
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| The destructive spirit of Zoroastrianism. |
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| The undeciphered language of the Minoans from the Island Crete. |
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| The deciphered language of the Mycenaeans. |
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| The Archaic Greek people from the Island of Crete. |
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| The people of the Bronze Age in Greece. This is when the Polis became relevant. |
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| An ancient Greek poet that wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey. |
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| The story of the Battle of Troy. |
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| The tale of Odysseus' journey home from the war. |
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| An association between Greek Polis', lead by Athens. Their purpose was to keep the Persians out of Greece. |
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| Accredited with increasing the power of the average person in Athens. Set Athens on a democratic pathway. |
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| A Greek Historian referred to as the 'Father of History'. Wrote about the Persian War. |
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| The ancient Mesopotamian flood myth. |
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| A tyrant of Athens.Took from the rich and gave to the poor. Funded many public works. |
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| The General of Athens in the Golden Age during the Persian and Peloponnesian wars. Turned the Delian League into an Athenian Empire. |
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| A Greek contemporary of Socrates. |
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| Essentially a burg of Athens. |
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| A council of citizens set to run daily affairs. |
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| When an Athenian citizen is expelled for 10 years. |
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| The highest deity of Zoroastrianism. |
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| Laid out democracy for the Athenians, but failed in the long run. |
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| The religion of the ancient Persians. |
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| A leader of Persia greatly responsible for expanding the empire. |
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| An authoritarian leader, having absolute rule. |
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| A very powerful king of Persia. |
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| The use of foot soldiers in ancient Greece. |
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| The location of the battle in which the Spartan Army fell to the Persians. |
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| A dialogue written by Thucydides between Athens and Sparta concerning the Peloponnesian War. |
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| A nymph from Greek mythology. |
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| The slaves to the Spartan society. |
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| The war between Sparta and Athens. |
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| A school of Hellenistic thought from Athens stating that the ideal person did not experience true emotion. |
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| Greek and Athenian Historian and General. He was involved in the Peloponnesian war and wrote the Melian Dialogue. |
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| A Polis of Greece famous for its strong army. |
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| A Polis of Greece famous for pottery and art. |
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| A Greek philosopher and student of Plato. Famous for Formal Logic. |
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| A philosopher from before Socrates. Came up with the cosmogenic theory of the four Classical elements. |
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| A philosopher and student of Socrates. Helped found western philosophy and science. |
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| A military commander from the Peloponnesian war. |
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| Allegory by Plato explaining reality from the point of view of men whom have seen the wall of a cave their whole life. |
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| A Super-Regional language used in the Hellenistic period. Known as the trade language. |
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| Created a large Macedonian Empire. |
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| The last strong king of the Assyrians. Had a large collection of cuneiform tablets. |
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| Pleasure is the greatest good, one must live modestly to attain it. |
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| Famous for inventing the Pythagorean therum. |
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| Known as the obscure philosopher or the weeping philosopher. |
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| An argument used to deceive someone. |
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