100 Objects Flashcards
(109 cards)
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About 13 000 years ago people reached America, Clovis people - first Clovis points were discovered in small city in New Mexico
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Cities started around
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5000 years ago
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Standard of Ur is dated for
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2600-2400 bc
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Ramses 2 was pharaoh in years
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1279-1213 bc
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Ramses 2 ruled for
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66 years
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Kushite kings were which dynasty
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25th
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Shang dynasty was ruling in China in
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1500-1050 bc
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Zhou dynasty was ruling in China in
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1050-221 bc
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The first coins were created by
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Croesus
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Coins were created by Croesus around
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550 bc
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The stamp used to indicate weight on Croesus’es coins was a… as value of the coin decreased the smaller parts of the anatomy were used. The smallest was…
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Lion. Paw
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The cultura madre of Central America are the
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Olmec
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The name Olmec comes from how Aztecs called them: the people of Olmen , meaning
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The rubber country
They invented one of th3 world’s earliest ball games- it was played using rubber balls
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Britain handovered Hong Kong to the People’s Republic of China in
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1997
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What symbol was associated with the god Zeus-Ammon
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Horn symbol
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What symbol was associated with Alexander the Great
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The ram’s horns
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Alexander the Great came to the throne in
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336 BC
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The dynasty that ruled in Egypt after Alexander the Great
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The Ptolemies
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Ptolemy V came to the throne of Egypt in … at the age of
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In 205 BC, of 6
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What dynasty built Library of Alexandria
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The Ptolemies
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Who created Pharos lighthouse
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Ptolemies I and II
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The Rosetta Stone was made in
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196 BC
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Rosetta Stone had text in what 4 different languages
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Classical Greek, Demotic egyptian, hieroglyphics, english
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British army captured Rosetta Stone from french in
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1801
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By which year and who cracked the code of hieroglyphs
By 1822, Champollion
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First Roman emperor
Caesar Augustus
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Who defeated Antony and Cleopatra
Caesar Augustus
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Caesar Augustus was Julius Caesar's
Great nephew
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Julius Caesar was assassinated in
44 BC
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Battle of Actium was in
31 BC
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Battle of Actium was in
31 BC
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Europeans discovered smoking in which century
16th
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Britain became a oart of Roman Empire in the year
43
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Christanity became predominant religion of the Roman Empire in
312
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Prophet Muhammad was born in
570
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Historical Buddha was a prince of the Ganges region in northern India in the ... century BC
5th
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Buddha meditated without moving for
49 days
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Buddha means
To be awakened
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Shiva symbol
Trident
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Vishnu image
4 arms, holds discus and lotus flower
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Who granted tolerance to Christanity in Rome
Constantine
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Tolerance was granted to Christanity in
313
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God of war in hinduism
Kumara
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Symbol of Kumara
Peacock
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Holy book of Zoroastrian religion
Avesta
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Ghe main religion of Sasanian Dynasty
Zoroastrian
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Zoroaster was a first prophet to teach that
Universe is a battleground between forces of good and evil
There will be a judgement day
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Hijra - the event when
Muhammed and followers moved from Mecca to Medina
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Hijra happened in year
622
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The event of... marked for Islam the beginning of year 1
Hijra
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Damascus was conquered by Muslim armies in
635
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Moche tribe existed in years.... in area of today's...
200bc to 650ad
Peru
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The first real city in South America was where currently is a city of
Trujillo (Peru) , Moche people city
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Maya territory covered modern
Honduras, Guatemala, Belize and southern Mexico
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Maya territory covered modern
Honduras, Guatemala, Belize and southern Mexico
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First Maya cities have their beginnings around
500 BC
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The laat Maya monuments date to around
900 ad
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Ceylon (Sri Lanka) was taken over by the British from its Dutch rulers in
1815
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Tang Dynasty in China ran from
618- 906
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Which Anglo-Saxon king at last defeated the Vikings and built the beginnings of the kingdom of England
Athelstan
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Athelstan annexed the Viking kingdom of York in
927
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Muslim rule in Spain ended in
1492
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Japan in Heian period isolated itself from China in
894
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.... 鎖国 / 鎖國, "locked country") is the common name for the isolationist foreign policy of the Japanese Tokugawa shogunate under which, during the Edo period from.... to...
Sakoku
1603-1868
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Symbols of longevity in Japan
Cranes, pine branches
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Cranes in Japan are symbols of
Longevity and marital fidelity
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Borobudur was a buddhist temple built on Java around the year
800
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Zimbabwe is a Shona word meaning
Stone Houses
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From 11th to 15th century which African country economy was based on gold trade on the coast of Indian Ocean
Zimbabwe
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Swahili language was created when ... words were absorbed into the local ... language
Arabic and Persian
Bantu
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The Black Death was a pandemic in Europe in
1346- 1353
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Chess was most probably invented in... at some point after the year...
India
500
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The oldest astrolabe to survive is Islamic one ( allowed faithful to find direction to Mecca) from the... century
10th
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The oldest astrolabe to survive is Islamic one ( allowed faithful to find direction to Mecca) from the... century
10th
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Genghis Khan was ruler of the Mongols from
1206
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Word porcelain comes from Marco Polo's description of his travels in Qubilai Khan's China. In italian porcellana means...
It is a slang word for
Little piglet
Cowry shell
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The colors on chinese porcelain- blue and white - mirrored the local style of porcelain in
Iran
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Triumph of Orthodoxy - veneration of icons was restored by empress.... in...
Theodora
843
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Triumph of Orthodoxy - veneration of icons was restored by empress.... in...
Theodora
843
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Constantinople fell to the Turks in
1453
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Shiva is the god of...
The god who forever
Paradoxes
Creates and destroys
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Shiva's wife is
Parvati
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Shiva's animal is a....
Paravti's animal is a...
Bull
Lion
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Tlazolteotl was Aztecs
Mother goddess
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Tlazolteotl literally means in the Aztec language
Filth goddess
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The Aztec goddess of fertility, vegetation, renewal, the ultimate green goddess, transforming waste and excrement until healthy new life, guaranteeing the great cycle of natural regeneration. Another name she has is "eater of filth"- she consumes dirt and purifies it
Tlazolteotl
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The Aztec empire was created in
1430s
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Silver mine in Potosí (current Bolivia) allow Spaniards to create a first truly global money-
Pieces of Eight
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Britain's first ambassadkr to India was...
He arrived in India in
Sir Thomas Roe
1617
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Indonesia gained independence from.... after
Dutch
Second World War
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Britain occupied Java between
1811 and 1816
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Martin Luther nailed his.... thesis to a church door in ...at
95
1517
Wittenberg
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Thirty Years War was in
1618-1648
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The European Enlightenment was an age in which scientific learning and philosophy flourished, it was in
1680-1820
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The first African slaves arrived in British North America in
1619
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In South Carolina in... drums were used as a call to arms at the outbreak of a violent slave rebellion. It prompted the colony to prohibit drums by law and classify them as weapons
1739
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In ... Captain James Cook on board of .... landed in Hawaii
1778
Resolution
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Hawaii was never colonized by Europeans. It was annexated by US in
1898
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James Cook got to Australia in
1770
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The ruler of England during Cook's discoveries was
King George 3rd
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Cook called Eastern Coast of Australia
New South Wales
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Qing Dynasty displaced Ming in
1644
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The Great Wave by ... was made around...
Hokusai
1830
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Japan's self-imposed isolation was breached in... by... of the US Navy who sailed into Tokyo Bay uninvited and demanded that Japanese begin to trade with US. He brought a letter from president of US.
1853
Matthew Perry
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Suez canal built bt the French and Egyptians in
1869
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Kitchner's Anglo- Egyptian army destroyed the Madhist forces at Omdurman in...
One of the participants was the young...
1898
Winston Churchill
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Sudan was ruled as an Anglo- Egyptian territory from... until...
1899
1956
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First credit card was issued in
1958
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In... credit cards became truly global
1990s
