First Test Flashcards
(101 cards)
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Toil definition?
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To work hard
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Decreed definition?
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A formal and authoritative order, especially one having the force of law.
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Cathedral definition?
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A very large and important church which has a bishop in charge of it.
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Clambering definition?
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To make a loud complaint or demand.
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Overseer definition?
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A boss or manager.
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Immense definition?
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Very great in size or amount.
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Consort Definition?
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A husband or wife; especially of a reigning.
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Oblick Definition?
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Having a slanting direction or position.
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Dwelling Definition?
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A place where someone lives.
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Vivid definition?
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Producing a strong or clear impression on the senses.
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Threshed definition?
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To remove the seeds of crop plants by hitting them, using either a machine or hand tool.
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Laden Definition?
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Using a ladle or otherwise filling or loading something up.
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Tribute definition?
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Something given or contributed voluntarily as due or deserved.
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Somersault definition?
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To roll or jump either forward or backward, turning over completely, with your body.
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Zigzag definition?
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A-line, course, or progression characterized by sharp turns first to one side and then to the other.
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Legible definition?
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Able to be read easily.
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Sacred definition?
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Dedicate or set apart for the service or worship of a deity.
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Conformity definition?
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Correspondence in form, manner, or character.
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Reign definition?
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To govern as a monarch.
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Sustained definition?
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Maintained at length without interruption or weakening: last, prolonged.
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Utterly definition?
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Completely and without qualification; absolutely.
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Severe definition?
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Very great; intense.
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Vast definition?
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Of very great extent or quantity; immense.
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Swarming definition?
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Moving in or forming a large or dense group.
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Excavation definition?
The action of excavating something, especially an archaeological site.
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Astonishing definition?
Extremely surprising or impressive; amazing.
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Deed definition?
An action that is performed intentionally or consciously.
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Eternity definition?
Infinite or unending time.
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Inscription definition?
Words inscribed, as on a monument or in a book.
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Forbidding definition?
Unfriendly or threatening in appearance.
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Engraved definition?
Cut or carve (a text or design) on the surface of a hard object.
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Ringlet definition?
A lock of hair hanging in a corkscrew-shaped curl.
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Vault definition?
A roof in the form of an arch or a series of arches, typical of churches and other large, formal buildings.
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Constellation definition?
A group of stars forming a recognizable pattern that is traditionally named after its apparent form or identified with a mythological figure. Modern astronomers divide the sky into eighty-eight constellations with defined boundaries.
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Venerable definition?
Accorded a great deal of respect, especially because of age, wisdom, or character.
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Formidable definition?
Inspiring fear or respect through being impressively large, powerful, intense, or capable.
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Inscription definition?
Words inscribed, as on a monument or in a book.
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Cistern definition?
A tank for storing water, especially one supplying taps or as part of a flushing toilet.
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Irrigate definition?
Supply water to (land or crops) to help growth, typically by means of channels.
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Silt definition?
Fine sand, clay, or other material carried by running water and deposited as sediment, especially in a channel or harbor.
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Human Bone:
Bones are made of connective tissue reinforced with calcium and specialized bone cells.
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Immense definition?
Extremely large or great, especially in scale or degree.
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Lapland:
A region in northern Norway, northern Sweden, northern Finland, and the Kola Peninsula of the northwestern Russian Federation in Europe: inhabited by the Sami.
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Heidelberg:
Heidelberg is a town on the Neckar River in southwestern Germany.
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Neander Valley:
The Neandertal is a small valley of the river Düssel in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia,
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Wood definition?
It is a hard fibrous material.
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Plants:
To put a plant into the ground or into a container of soil so that it will grow.
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Volcanic Rocks definition?
A rock formed from lava erupted from a volcano.
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Bronze Age:
It is a historic period, lasting from 3300 BC to 1200 BC.
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Near the Persian Gulf people living there have learnt how to shape bricks from clay and build houses and build temples around what time?
3100 BC
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Inside tombs what items were found?
Dazzling golden headdresses and gold vessels for sacrifices, gold helmets and gold daggers set with semi precious stones
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The explorer who found the treasures in the tombs took them were?
British Museum, England and University of Pennsylvania and the Museum of Baghdad, Iraq
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One of the first Babylonian kings made an important script called what?
Code of Hemmurabi
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King Hammurabi lived around what time?
1700 BC (3700 years ago)
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The kings look forbidding also sometimes shown making sacrifices to Baal, the sun god or the moon goddess Ishtar or Astarte. True or False?
True
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They thought by studying the gods they would be able to predict the future that belief has a Greek name what is it?
Astrology
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Some of the ziggurats can still be seen today, telling how this or that king built or restored them. These kings live around what time?
As long as 3000 BC and the last around 550 BC
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What was the name of the last king of Babylonian?
Nebuchadnezzar
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What was the time when the last king of Babylonian lived around?
600 BC
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What was King Nebuchadnezzar greatest deeds?
His huge canals and water cisterns, dug in order to retain the water and irrigate so, the land grew rich and fertile
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What time did we believe King Menes was ruling over Egypt?
3100 BC
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King Cheops who lived in about 2500 BC summoned his subjects to help construct his tomb they built the tomb like a mountain. True or False?
True
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The Egyptian Empire lasted the longest out of any empire in the world. How many years did it last?
Nearly three thousand years
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A king called Akhenaton who lived around 1370 BC did not like the Egyptian religion so he made them believe there was only one God which is the Son God. True or False?
True
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For nearly three and a half more centuries people continued to put mummy's in tombs, write in hieroglyphs, and pray to the same gods. True or False?
True
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What did they bring from the mines in the mountains?
Grains and salt
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A period of time not yet written in record?
Prehistory
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When did they discover metals?
4000 BC
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They were called cavemen but we aren't sure if they lived in caves. True or False?
True
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The Ice Age began after the Stone Age ended. False or True?
True
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The Neanderthal People who appeared about seventy thousand years earlier and inhabited the earth for about two hundred thousand years. False or True?
True
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Are ancestors have been using stones as tools more than a hundred and fifty years ago. True or False?
True
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Near Heidelberg in Germany they found a bone what bone is it?
A lower law
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In Germany - in the Neander Valley they found bone?
A human skull
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What direction does the bird Swallows fly when it gets cold?
South
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Twice a year when heavy rain fills the Nile it floods the whole land. True or False?
True
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What were the kings of Egypt called?
Pharaohs
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In front of the temples they had obelisks. True or False?
True
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Sphinx have been guarding the tombs of the pharaohs for how many years?
More then five thousand years
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They rubbed them with ointments and juices from certain plants and bandaged them with long strips of cloth. What is that called?
A mummy
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The tombs were intended to be dwelling for the soul when it returned to the body for this reason they put food, furniture, clothes, and paintings. True or False?
True
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Hieroglyphs were like solving a really hard picture painting. True or False?
True
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What were the two rivers names in Asia?
Tigris and Euphrates
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Where do the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers join together?
They join together out of the Persian Gulf
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What is Greek for the land between the rivers?
Mesopotamia
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What type of bricks did the Mesopotamia use?
Sun-backed bricks
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Mesopotamia was rarely ruled by one king. True or False?
True
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What city was Abraham was born in?
City of Ur
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The explorer who found the treasures in the tombs took them were?
British Museum, England and University of Pennsylvania and the Museum of Baghdad, Iraq
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There was a script that was hard to read because it is wedge shaped. What is the script called?
Cuneiform
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Books made of papyrus were unknown to who?
Mesopotamians
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Tablets of clay baked in ovens had stories about?
The hero of Gilgamesh and his battles with monsters and dragons
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On other tablets they recorded business dealing and that's we know that even before the _______ and ________, the ancient ________ were already great traders. What is the answer to the blank?
Babylonians, Assyrians, and the Sumerians
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Did they think the earth was a flat disk and the sky had a hollow sphere cupped over the earth?
Yes
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What was King Nebuchadnezzar remembered for?
His feats of war
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They soon recognized that those stars seemed fixed as a vault of heaven, reappearing each night in the same place and they saw shapes in the constellations and gave them names. True or False?
True
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The Babylonians and the Assyrians did not know what planets were. True or False?
True
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Which city was the greatest city on earth at once?
Babylon
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What was the second greatest city in the land?
Nineveh
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Mars had a meaning to it what is that meaning?
War
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Venus had a meaning to it what is that meaning?
Love
