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| Age of farming and agriculture. Produce food instead of a gathering |
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| Long lasting patter of organization in a community |
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| (stone age) used crude tools and weapons |
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| No permanent home. Wanders from place to place. |
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| Period when people started using bronze instead of copper/stone. |
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| Where did the earliest humans originate? |
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| Who was Mary Leakey? Who was lucy? |
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| Discovered footprints that linked early homind to modern humas. Lucy could walk upright and had opposable thumbs. She was discovered by Donald Johanson. |
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| May have supported the earliest civiliaztion. Very fertile. Tigris & Euphrates river flowerd near. Flooding made it fertile. Desirable by famers. |
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| A series of rulers from a single family |
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| A large landmass that forms a distinct part of a continent |
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| A fertile deposit of windblown soil |
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| A conqueror that defeated the city-states of sumer. Sargon led his army from Akkad up north. |
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| A waterfall of stretch of rapids in a river. |
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| A government in which the ruler is viewed as a divine figure. |
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| What river civillizations have we studied? |
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| Sumer(Mesopotamia), Egypt, Indus, and China |
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| What rivers helped support these 4 civilliazations |
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| What rivers supported the 4 civilizations? |
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China----Yellow River, Yangtze River
Indus------Indus River, Ganges River
Egypt-------------------------Nile River
Sumer------------------Tigris River, Euphrates river, Persian gulf & Red Sea |
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- 3 disadvantages of Sumer's natural environment-
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- No Natural barriers to protect
- Flooding of the Rivers
- Limited natural resources.
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| Dry, grass-covered plains |
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| Indo-european people who settled in Anatolia in 2000 B.C. |
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| Southwest Asian peninsula. Now occupied by turkey. |
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| Indo-Europeans who migrated into the indian sub-continent |
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| [four] collections of sacred writings produced by the Aryans during an early stage of their settlement in India. |
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| In Aryan society-- a member of the social class made up of priests--Religious leader |
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| Your level in society in hindu society |
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A great indian EPIC POEM, reflecting the struggles of the Aryans as they moved south into india.
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| --Religion found in india in the sixth century B.C whose members believe that everyting in the universe has a soul and therefore should not be harmed |
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Seafearing and trading people that lived on the isnald ofcrete from a bout 2000 to 1400 B.C.
MINOTAUR CRAP
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| SEAfearing people of SW ASIA |
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| Where the Phoenicians used to live. |
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| Ancient home of the Hebrews |
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| First 5 books of the hebrew bible |
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| Led the jews out of slavery from egypt |
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| The southern part of the split Judah in south, Israel in the north |
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| A payment made by a weaker power to a stronger power to obtain an asssurance of peace and security. |
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| the desire to rebuild Israel |
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| What reasons for Indo-Euro migratino? |
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| Land ran out of resources |
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- What are the 4 noble truths?
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- All of life is suffering
- Cause of suffering is pepole's desire for temporary pleasures
- To end suffering is to end desire
- To overcome desire--one must follow the 8 fold path
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| Could reach nirvana by following this. To end suffering and desire, you must follow this. |
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- What was Darius famous for?
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- Cambyses successor
- used to be a kings body gaurd but seized the throne with an elite group of soldiers called the 1000 immortals. Extended persian empire over fertile crescent. NOW A 2,500 mi empire
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| Why did Assryia develop such an aggressive army? |
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| They came from a flat part of Mesopotamia and was easy to attack. They army become more fierce. |
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| Came from SW Asia...Helped destroy the fierce Assryians. |
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| settled on greek mainland 2000 B.C. |
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| Mycaneans fought against troy for ten years. |
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| Moved into the Mycenean area after fire and ash. |
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| Blind story teller that told of the trojan war |
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| A government ruled by a small group of noble, land-owning families. |
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| Government ruled by a few powerful people. |
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| fighting tactics used by foot soldiers. Stood side by side with swords & shields. |
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| a greek city-state. Fundemental political unit of ancient greece after about 750 B.C |
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| Layed on a rocky hill in ancient greece. Democracy....... |
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| government ruled by the people. |
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| Wars between greece and the persian empire. Began in ionia on the coast of anatolia. |
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| Poems celebrating heroic deeds |
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| Why was sea travel so important to greeks? |
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| they were surrounded by it |
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| Why did greeks develop myths |
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| 2 most important greek city-states? |
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| What were the consequences of the persian wars? |
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