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History Flashcards

0
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How did the gods decide to destroy their people

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In the sea

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What words tell you that the gods were afraid?

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Wept, trembled

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A meeting in which the gods make decisions is called

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An assembly

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The Gilgamesh stories come from the ancient city of Sumer. Sumer was located in…

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Mesopotamia

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4
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Who wrote a legal code that covered most areas of daily life

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Hammurabi

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5
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People who study and write about human past are called..

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Historians

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The Sumerian writing system was called…

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Cuneiform

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Times of extreme cold when great sheets of ice covered parts of the earth were the…

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Ice Ages

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Artisans, merchants, farmers, and fishers made up this group

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Middle class

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A group of traveling merchants is called a…

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Caravan

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10
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The first kings were probably….

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War heroes

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Which of these are Sumerian inventions

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Plow, wheel, and sailboat

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12
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Who united Upper and Lower Egypt (also know as Menes)

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Narmer

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What was the natural barrier that protected Egypt on the Nile River in the south

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Cataracts

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14
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The Nile Rivers flooding could be described as…

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Gentle and dependAble

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The land around the Nile River delta is know as

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Lower Egypt

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—— was a collection of spells and prayers studied to help obtain the afterlife

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The Book of the Dead

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17
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The forced payments sent to the pharaoh by conquered peoples are called…

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Tribute

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18
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An embalmed body wrapped in cloth strips is a…

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Mummy

19
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A line of rulers that passes power from father to son is a…

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Dynasty

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The Egyptian invention to prevent the pharaohs body from decomposing was…

A

Embalming

21
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The chief god of the Egyptians was…

A

Re

22
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The woman pharaoh who concentrated on building the Egyptian economy (trade) was…

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Hatshepsut

23
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Jewish religious teachers are called…

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Rabbis

24
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—– was a model of devotion to family held up for Jewish girls to imitate

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Ruth

25
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——- raised 12 sons, who became the 12 tribes of Israel

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Jacob

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—– was the warrior-farmer anointed king by the prophet Samuel.

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Saul

27
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The —- translated the Hebrew Bible into Greek, spreading Jewish ideas

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Jew of the diaspora

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The faith of the Israelites became known as

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Judaism

29
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A person thought to be intricate by God is a

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Prophet

30
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—– refused to worship Babylonian gods and was thrown in the lions den.

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Daniel

31
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—— Founded a school that became a center for Torah studies.

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Yohanan Ben Zaccai

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Ezra was a scribe who guided the writing of the…

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Torah

33
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The wise sayings of Solomon were written down and are called…

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Proverbs

34
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Who led the Israelites out of Egypt and into the Sinai Desert?

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Moses

35
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Who wrote many of the psalms

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David

36
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Food prepared according to Jewish dietary laws is called…

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Kosher

37
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The time around 600 B.C. Is called the Dark Ages because

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People forgot how to read and write

38
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Early Greeks lived by

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Fishing, trade, and herding goats and sheep

39
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In a direct democracy, who decides government matters?

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All of the people

40
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The Greeks win the battle of salamis because their ships

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Could move around quickly

41
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The illiad is an

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Epic about the Trojan war

42
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The goddess of wisdom is

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Athena

43
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Who wrote the history of the Persia wars

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Herodotus

44
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Who conquered land as Far East as modern Pakistan

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Alexander the Great

45
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Philosophers beloved that

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The human mind could understand everything

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