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| Long thin slices of papyrus plant cut into a form of paper |
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| fertile soil carried as sediment in the river's waters |
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| Egyptian written language. Written on stone and papyrus. Come from the two greek words hieros-sacrad and gluphein- to carve. NO vowels |
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| Also known as the fertile crescent, region in middle east including the Euphrates |
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| Developed by the Sumerians, a town or city and the surrounding land the city controlled. Often independent |
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| From the latin word for wedge. The sumerians 600 sign language. It was written in rolled out clay |
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| A curved structure over an opening. Invented by the Sumerians |
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| the belief in multiple Gods |
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| Sumerian temples, built in layers |
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| Marriage to multiple spouses |
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| A Indian custom that requires a widow to commit suicide by throwing herself on top of her husband's flaming corpse. |
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| THe great literature of the Indo-Aryan religion. |
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| Translated version of the Vedes in to Two great epics the Mahabharata and Ramayana. Translated to make their religious beliefs clearer |
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| A long poems that describes heroes and great events. |
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| The belief that spirits inhabited everything. |
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| The belief of the Chinese that the gods determined who should rule. If someone successfully took over it was the Gods doing |
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| The states that came up after the Zhou Dynasty. They began to fight against each other for control of china. the Qin emerged victorious |
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| A collection of writings from Confucius. Became the basis of Confucianism. |
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| The idea of balancing complementary forces. Yin is female, dark and passive. Yang is male, bright, and active |
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| Created from Laozi. Daoism gets its name from its central idea, the Dao, which can be defined as the "Way of the Nature" |
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| A religious belief that saw Buddha as a prophet or "the enlightened one". |
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| Chinese version of Buddhism. THey thought of BUddha as a savior |
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| the greek word for city-state |
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| A hill or mountain in which a fort or temple stood |
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| Originally meant rule of the best |
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| A government in which all citizens take part |
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| Means creating small, flat plots of land by building low walls on the hillside and fill in the space behind with soil. |
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| A new culture combining Greek ideas and features from other cultures of the Mediterranean |
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| The study of the most fundamental questions of reality and human existence |
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A rule of three
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