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World History Test 1

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Pleistocene   3 to 5 million years ago  
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pleistocene   great ice age  
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pleistocene   final ice age  
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pleistocene   humans tried to move from african climate to europe and asia but didn't full succeed  
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paleolithic   1 and half million years ago  
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paleolithic   people could make and use stone tools  
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paleolithic   found earliest in africa  
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paleolithic   oldowan choppers  
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australopithecines   ancestral forms of humans  
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australopithecines   stood up right had teeth hands free  
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australopithecines   found in Southern Africa  
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australopithecines   called southern african ape  
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homoerectus erectus   southeast  
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homoerectus erectus   first skulls found in asia 1920s  
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homoerectus erectus   peking man  
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homoerectus erectus   5ft tall full up right  
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homoerectus erectus   brain size almost up to ours  
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homoerectus erectus   made stone tools  
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homoerectus erectus   used fire first  
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homoerectus erectus   first evidence of canabalism  
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homoerectus erectus   when weather got rough had to move back to tropics  
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mamdentalensis homo sapiens   Neanderthal man  
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mamdentalensis homo sapiens   massive build  
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mamdentalensis homo sapiens   200 to 250 years ago  
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mamdentalensis homo sapiens   disappeared 30 thousand years ago  
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mamdentalensis homo sapiens   Lived in Europe  
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mamdentalensis homo sapiens   2nd one to use fire  
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mamdentalensis homo sapiens   Made great tool  
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mamdentalensis homo sapiens   First burial and spiritual belief  
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mamdentalensis homo sapiens   2nd evidence of canabalism  
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Cro Magnon man   Modern Men  
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Cro Magnon man   40 to 50 thousand years ago  
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Cro Magnon man   lived in europe atlas 10,000 years ago  
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Cro Magnon man   lived side by side Neanderthals  
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Cro Magnon man   smarter and make better tools  
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Cro Magnon man   could explore environment more efficiently  
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Cro Magnon man   Neanderthals soon died out because their genes dominated  
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Cro Magnon man   left great cave paintings  
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Cro Magnon man   used nets and baskets by plants  
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Mesolithic   10,000 B.C - 5,000 B.C  
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Mesolithic   sea levels started to rise  
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Mesolithic   large animals of the plasticine were dying out  
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Mesolithic   people became more dependent on plants  
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Mesolithic   led to domestication of plants  
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Mesolithic   middle east tigress euphrates valley  
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Cultivated   encouraging growth  
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Domesticated   human intervention  
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Mesolithic   Middle Stone Age  
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Paleolithic   Old Stone Age  
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Mexico   corn was the main crop  
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Mexico   pineapple chilly peppers beans and other fruits  
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Northwestern South America   Had to domesticate several plants such as potatoes and peanuts  
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Northern Central China   large animals became extinct which caused them to depend on plants such as rice kikoi and fruit  
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Southeast Asia   sugar kane, coconuts, bananas  
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Africa   watermelon, okra, sorghum  
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Middle East   goats and cattle  
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Asia   water buffalo  
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Southeast Asia   chickens  
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Asia   horses  
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Neolithic   5000-3000 B.C.  
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Neolithic   started earlier in someplace and ended in other places  
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Neolithic   still using stone tools  
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Neolithic   evolution of first city parts of the world where agriculture appeared  
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Neolithic   evidence that religion started to become of main importance  
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Neolithic   agriculture and plants are how people are still surviving  
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Neolithic   farmers started to depend more on religion because of floods  
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Neolithic   spiritual world controls rain and elements  
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Neolithic   the priest was of the highest power due to the fact that they could communicate with the gods  
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Neolithic   digging sticks were the newest source of technology  
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Fertile Crescent   valleys of tigress-euphrates has the nile in it  
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Fertile Crescent   where the first cities where  
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Fertile Crescent   farmers moved here in 450 B.C.  
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Fertile Crescent   Southern portion Babylonia  
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Fertile Crescent   Northern portion Akkad  
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Sumer   First civilization in Babylonia  
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Copper   starts to replace stone tools  
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Copper   hammer made implements out of it  
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Fertile Crescent   wheel was made and used  
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Fertile Crescent   horses, oxes, animals were used with wagons  
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Fertile Crescent   learned how to harvest the power of energy with wind  
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Fertile Crescent   people started to build sail boats  
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Fertile Crescent   irrigation started to be used  
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Fertile Crescent   social conflicts started to happen  
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Fertile Crescent   needed authority so religious leader took charge  
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Fertile Crescent   evolving into the place of kings and priest  
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Northern proportion   Semitic people were called the akkadians  
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Southern proportion   summerians where located here  
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Southern proportion   had numbers of cities  
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Southern proportion   grew along the river  
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Southern proportion   river source of communication  
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Southern proportion   some separated by wild tribes  
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Southern proportion   where attempts to unify but where resisted  
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Southern proportion   clay tablets where made here  
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Protolitenate   1st period of summerians history  
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2800 B.C.   When writing appeared  
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  accounting was the reason people created writing  
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  who used clay tablets  
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  end of period signs would replace with sound  
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  their writing is called cuneiform  
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Zeggurat   temples every city had one  
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Southern proportion   professional priest was in charge of temple and ceremonies  
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Sumerians   Had four categories of people  
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Nobility   king of city State and his family, top priest, high palace officials and their families  
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Free Clients   worked on land of nobility, but had own small spots where they raised food  
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Commoners   free citizens, owned land but had almost no power  
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Slaves   war captives, debtors, had some rights could take and could buy their own freedom  
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Old Sumerian Period   2800-2200 B.C.  
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Old Sumerian Period   akkadians settled north  
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Old Sumerian Period   Sargon I king concurred sumers  
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Old Sumerian Period   adopted a lot from Sumerian culture  
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Old Sumerian Period   established a empire that reached Mediterranean speeded ideas and customs  
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Babylonia   Hammurabi (ruler)  
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Babylonia   idea that all Gods got together and voted the Babylonian God as king  
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Babylonia   he codified the laws  
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Babylonia   laws influenced people's laws later Arab, Hebrew, and etc  
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Babylonia   provided laws for different social statuses  
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Babylonia   the law demanded punishment that fit the crime  
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Babylonia   adopted a lot from the sumerican culture  
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Babylonia   established empire as far as sierra and Egypt  
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Babylonian Achievement   developed writing and education system  
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Babylonian Achievement   schools for training scribes  
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Babylonian Achievement   discipline was strict  
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Babylonian Achievement   originated astrology  
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Course of Civilization in Egypt   population began to increase  
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Course of Civilization in Egypt   kingdoms became lower and upper  
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Navmer (menes)   united egypt together was the kind of upper egypt  
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Course of Civilization in Egypt   capital was memphis  
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Old Kingdom of Egypt   2700-2200 B.C.  
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Old Kingdom of Egypt   pharaoh became focal point of all life in egyot  
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Old Kingdom of Egypt   pharaoh was considered a god  
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Old Kingdom of Egypt   created magnificent tombs and palaces for him  
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Old Kingdom of Egypt   developed elaborate mummification  
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Old Kingdom of Egypt   famous pyramids date from this time  
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Middle Kingdom of Egypt   2050- 1800 B.C  
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Middle Kingdom of Egypt   pharos of 11th and 12 th dynasty reunited Egypt  
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Middle Kingdom of Egypt   ruled city of thebes  
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Middle Kingdom of Egypt   Golden Age of Egypt  
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Middle Kingdom of Egypt   Civil War again invaded by Hykoxos  
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Middle Kingdom of Egypt   conquered nile delta  
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Middle Kingdom of Egypt   made all of egypt subjected to them  
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Middle Kingdom of Egypt   introduced new ideas bronze tools, weapons, and also used rose drawn chariots in war  
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New Kingdom of Egypt   1570-1090 B.C  
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New Kingdom of Egypt   Egyptians rose up and used enemies weapons against them  
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Thutmos III   1490-1436 B.C  
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Thutmos III   expanded the Egyptian empire greatly  
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Amonhotep III   empire reached higher point with this person egypt  
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Amonhotep III   1398-1361 B.C.  
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Amonhotep 4th   unusual he looked deformed  
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Amonhotep 4th   his wife ruled right along side of him  
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Amonhotep 4th   introduced monotheism to Egypt which was why the Egyptians hated him  
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Nephertiti   ruled along side her husband of Egypt  
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Tutankhamen (King Tut)   1352-1344 B.C.  
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Tutankhamen (King Tut)   Only reason he was truly famous was because his tomb was the only tomb that had not been raided  
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Tutankhamen (King Tut)   was only a boy when he became King  
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Tutankhamen (King Tut)   died in late teen or early 20s  
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Hittites   lived in Turkey King Tuts wife wrote a letter to them  
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Rameses II   1289-1224 B.C  
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Rameses II   stopped the Hittites from invading which was the Battle of Kadesh  
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Rameses II   he wanted to be remembered  
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Rameses II   after his death the period declined which led to Egypt being ruled by outsiders  
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accomplishments of Egypt   women enjoyed high status  
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accomplishments of Egypt   malrilimeal inheritance through female line  
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accomplishments of Egypt   trading through out eastern med  
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accomplishments of Egypt   land and water trade routes  
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accomplishments of Egypt   medical texts were wrote  
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accomplishments of Egypt   human anatomy was advance  
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accomplishments of Egypt   invented first known solar calendar  
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accomplishments of Egypt   architecture  
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accomplishments of Egypt   a system of writing Hyroglhic before 3100 B.C  
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hittites   left us our first written endoeurpean language  
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hittites   invaded the Egyptian empire  
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Phoenicians   lived along eastern coast of med  
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Phoenicians   1100 B.C.  
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Phoenicians   sea faring people  
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Phoenicians   popular in trade especially water  
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Phoenicians   some cities still exist  
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Phoenicians   credited with perfecting the alphabet  
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Hebrews   made outstanding contributions to religion  
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Hebrews   gave raise to 3 famous religions  
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Hebrews   semiotic people lang related to arabic  
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Hebrews   abraham originated Ur which was a sumerian city  
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Hebrews   1700 B.c. decedents went to England  
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Hebrews   they were enslaved  
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Hebrews   were ruled by judges  
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Saul   King of Hebrews  
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Saul   1020-1080 B.C.  
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David   1000-961 B.C  
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David   began to expand the territory  
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Soloman   961-922 B.C.  
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Soloman   had a huge number of wives and concubines  
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Soloman   creates extent of this empire after david  
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Assyrains   9th century B.C.  
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Assyrains   by 721 dominated the cresant  
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Assyrains   capital was Nineveh  
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Assyrains   were so hated that people tried to get ride of their memory  
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Tells   were archeological feature composed of settlements on top of settlements  
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Assyrains   cut heads off of others and piled them up  
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Assyrains   or empaled them and put the sticks in the ground  
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Assyrains   612 B.C. this empire was destroyed  
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course of civilization in India   first civilization appears in the Indus Valley  
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course of civilization in India   appeared 2300 B.C  
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Mohenjo Daro   principle city  
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Harappa   principle city  
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course of civilization in India   had cereal crops  
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course of civilization in India   experts in metals and textiles  
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course of civilization in India   wide spread trade  
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Aryan People   1500 B.C. invaded much of Northern India  
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Aryan People   had foreboded Marriage with natives  
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Aryan People   origin of castle system  
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Aryan People   rigid social system which means you can't movie out of the social system  
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Ayran People   sanskrit  
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Hinduism   polytheistic religion  
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