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| What were the three Neolithic craft industries? |
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| Pettery, Metallurgy, and Textile production. |
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| What is the first metal systematically worked by humans? |
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| Where was Gilgamesh from? |
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| What does Mesopotamia mean? |
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| Who created the first Empire in history? |
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| What do the words lex talionis refer to? |
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| What pharaoh was into monotheism? |
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| Akhentaten!!!!!!!!!!! (Hakuna Mahtata) |
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| Noble people, indoeuropean migrants |
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| Where do we get our knowledge of theearly Aryans? |
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| The Vedas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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| What did the Mandate of Heaven do? |
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| What else could it do, but let rulers serve as a link between Heaven and earth!!!! |
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| What were oracle bones and how were the used? |
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| You wrote on a bone, and then you heated it up. When the bone cracked, it "told the future"!!!! |
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| They sculpted colossal human heads out of basalt rock, monumental buildings, they produced a lot of decorative objects made out of Jade, and made sharp cutting edges our of obsidian. |
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| Jade, obsidian, small works of art, local products such as animal skins. |
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| 9th Century Chchen Itza... |
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| A city in the northern Yucatan peninsula who didn't want to annihilate their aptives unless they really wanted to die; they let their captives participate in the construction of a larger society!!! |
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| A caldendar with 365 days in a solar year and 260 days in a ritual year. |
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| A Mayan creation myt--belief that people were created by the gods out of maize. Maize and water. Yep, that's what Popol Vuh is, alright!! |
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| Pyramids at Teotihuacan... |
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| Pyrid of the moon, Pyramid of the sun(largest single structure in Mesoamerica)!!!!!!! |
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| Who were the Lapita people? |
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| They came from a beach in New Caledonia, earliest Austronesian migrants to sail out into the pacific Ocean, and establish human settlements in Pacific Islands. |
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| What Andean state had great pottery? |
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| Languages derived from Austronesians... |
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| Malayan, Indonesian, Filipino, Polynesian, Malagasy, indigerious languages |
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| Who was the leader of the Lydians? |
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| Persian empires chronology... |
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| Achaemenid,Selucid, Parthian, and Sasanid! |
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| Who founded the Achaemenid Empire? |
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| Cyrus the Achaemenid!!!!! |
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| Cambyses major contribution... |
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| Conquered Egypt and brought it's wealth into Persian's hands! |
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| Who was themost famous Achaemenid ruler? |
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| Mostly Persians; Governors of the 23 satrapies!!!!!!! |
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| "Eyes and Ears of the King"... |
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| Imperial spies who traveled throughout the empire with their own military forces conduction surprise audits of accounts and procedures in provinces and collecting intelligence reports. |
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| Persian communications... |
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| Built good roads that stretched 2,575 km. Caravans took some 90 days to travel this road. There was also a postal service. |
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| What were the qanats??????? |
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| I'm glad you asked that! The qanats were underground canals that led to enhanced agricultural production and population growth!!!!! |
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| Empires after Alexander... |
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| Seleucid, Parthian, and last but certainly not least, Sasanid!!!!!!!! |
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| What were the good and evil gods in Zoroastrianism? |
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Ahura Mazda - Good! 0:-)
Angra Mainyu - Evil!!!!!!!!!! >8-D |
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| What were the good and evil gods in Zoroastrianism? |
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Ahura Mazda - Good! 0:-)
Angra Mainyu - Evil!!!!!!!!!! >8-D |
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| A book the Confucius' pupils wrote about his teachings and what not! |
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| What did the philosophy of Confucius form? |
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| Well, they were superiour individuals who took a broad view of public affairs and did not allow personal interests to influence their government!!!! |
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| Filial piety - Reflected the high significance of the family in Chinese society!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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| An attitue of kindness and benevolence!!!! |
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| A sence of propiety - behave in a conventionally appropriate fashion. |
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| He was, in fact, the most learned man of his age and a principal spokesman for the confucian school. Traveled around China offering advice. Beleived in Ren!!!!!!!! |
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| Developed a view of huma nature less rosy then Mencius. He believed in Li!!!! |
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| A type of thinking in which daoists devoted teir energies to reflection and introspection hoping to understand thenatural principals that governed the worlds. |
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| What is Legalism???????????? Huh??? What is it????? |
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| Promoted a practical and ruthlessly effective approach to statecraft.. They devoted all their attention to the state which they sought to strengthen and expand at all costs!!!!! |
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| Who founded the Han dynasty? |
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| The "Martial Eemperor" who occupied the imperial throne for 54 years. Ruled the empire w/ vision and vigor. |
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| 327 BCE invasion of India... |
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| Alexander of Macedon crossed the Indus R. and crushed the states found in the Achaemenid empire. |
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| Chandragupta Maurya did, of coarse!!!!!!!! |
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| Who did Ashoka fight a bloody battle against? |
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| It's elementary, Watson! KALINGA is the asnwer. Oops, I mispelled Answer. I meant to say "answer", I'm sorry!!!! |
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| What language did the Bactrians speak, where were they from, and what the crap did they do??? |
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| Greek; Bactira; Ruled northwestern India. |
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| Who created the Gupta Dynasty??? |
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| Chandra Gupta, who else??? |
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| Trade in the Indian Ocean... |
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| Benefited from the rhythms of the Monsoon winds; exchanged pearls, cotton, black pepper, and indian manufactured goods for spices and exotic local production. |
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| Well, that would be Vardhamana Mahavira!!!! |
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| Who sweeps the ground before them while walking? |
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| Jain monks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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| What are the Four noble Truths and why are they important??? |
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| All life involves suffering, desire is the cause of suffering, elimination of desire brings an end to suffering, and disciplined life conducted in accordance with the Noble Eightfold brings the elimination of desire. It is the core of the Bhuddist document: Dharma!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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| What is Boddhisatava??????????? |
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| Well, I do believe that the answer to that question that is on the other side of this here card is none other than.....A short poetic work, "Song of the Lord!" |
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