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| a series of rulers from a single family |
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| spreading from one culture to another |
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| remains, such as tools, jewelry, and other human made objects |
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| people's unique way of life |
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| ways of applying knowledge, tools, and inventions to meet their needs |
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| the species name for modern humans |
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| people who wander from place to place, rather than making permanent settlements |
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| nomadic groups whose food supply depends on hunting animals and collecting plant foods |
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| cut trees or grasses and burned them to clear a field |
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| the development of skills in a specific kind of work |
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| skilled workers who make goods by hand |
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| a long lasting pattern of organization in a community |
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| professional record keepers |
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| a pyramid shaped monument that means "mountain of god" |
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| a strong willed king of upper egypt that united all of egypt |
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| type of government in which the ruler is a divine figure |
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embalming and drying the corpse to prevent it from decaying |
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| hieroglyphics were first written on stone and clay . then egyptians invented a better writing surface called ______. |
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| seasonal winds that dominate India's climate |
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| a just ruler had divine approval |
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| a pattern of rise, decline and replacement |
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| a political system in which nobles, or lords, are granted the use of lands that legally belong to the king |
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| dry grasslands that stretched north of the caucasus |
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| a group of seminomadic peoples who came from the steppes |
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| movements of a people from one region to another |
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| one of the great epics of India |
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| when an individual sould or spirit is born again and again until moksha is achieved |
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| beleived that everything in the universe has a soul and should not be harmed |
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| Siddhartha Gautama- founder of buddhism |
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| the buddhas word for release from selfishness and pain |
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| powerful seafaring people, that dominated trade in the eastern mediterranean from about 2000 to 1400 B.C |
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| the most powerful traders along the mediterranean |
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| ancient home to the hebrews, later called the jews |
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| first five books of the Hebrew bible |
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| the "father" or fist, of the Hebrew people |
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| the belief in a single god |
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| a mutual promise between god and the founder of the Hebrew people |
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| the man that led the Hebrews out of slavery |
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| peace money paid by a weaker power to a stronger |
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| a region of africa that straddled the upper nile river |
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| led an army down the nile and overthrew the libyan dynasty that had ruled egypt for over 200 years |
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