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Major River
Predicted Floods
2 Crops a year
Remotely located |
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| Ancient Egyptian Social Classes |
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Upper - nobles/kings/priests (simple life)
Middle - kept economy going - merchants/scribes/gov't
Lower - owned and harvested the land. -Farmers/workers
Bottom - Slaves - acquired through conquest - considered property |
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| believing in multiple Gods |
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| Tablet discovered by Napoleon contained the same text in three different languages / key to translating |
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| Leader of Mesopotamia / made all conquered people citizens and displayed law for everyone to see |
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| Egypt's system of writing - not an alphabet / ideas |
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Writing
Calender
Anatomy - mummification
Math |
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| Mesopotamian Achievements |
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Wheel
Writing
Math system base 60
Code of Laws |
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| Gave away their position, but lacked the technology of their neighbors |
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| Mesopotamia's fatal mistake |
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| Did not know of their surroundings / did not have enough man power |
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| Writing system of Mesopotamia, alphabet similar to ours |
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| Leader of the Persian / let conquered be citizens / wanted taxes and man power |
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| Persia was divided into 20 or so different provinces called Satraps |
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| Leader of Egyptians / ruled for 74 years / saw a prophet / made wonders |
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| Western civ was given a law system and an alphabet. Most of Egyptian was lost until later and Persia was stopped by the Greeks |
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| Similarities between Darius I and Hammurabi |
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| Both let conquered live in their nation as equals. |
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| God of death, fertility and rebirth |
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| The mountain on which the Gods lived |
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| A Roman Philosopher who studied human behavior |
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| studied the politics of the Greek city-states |
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| written by Plato theorized the perfect government |
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| Searched for the meaning of life / master of logic |
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| People in life should never be an extreme |
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| Greek writer | Illiad | Odyssey |
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| killed his father, married his mother |
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| The battle between the Persian and Greeks where a messenger ran 26 miles to tell of Greek Victory |
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| Father of Pythagorean theorem |
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| The batter there there were only 300 Greeks, said they would stand |
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| The interlocking shields of Alexander the great 18 foot shields |
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| Knot that could never be untied, Alexander the Great cut it in half and was destined to rule the world |
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| Myth of two who were the founders of Rome. Nursed by wolves |
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| People at the top | The top 10% |
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| Greek Victory Significance |
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| The heritage of individualism |
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| Greek civil wars/ weakened Greece and was eventually their downfall |
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No man above the law
Must have evidence |
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| Code of laws accessible to everyone |
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| He had no one for succession |
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| Spread Greek ideas worldwide |
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| Leader who sought to defeat Rome, used War elephant |
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| Roman slave who led a revolt, all 100000+ were executed because all claimed to be Spartacus |
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| Wall built to keep the barbarians out of Rome |
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| If this was crossed the Legions of Caesar would declare war on the Senate / River |
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| All of the senators stabbed Caesar / unlucky time |
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Trade
Roads
Greek Influence
Roman Law
Famous Romans
Time of Peace |
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| Crisis that weakened Rome |
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Political upheaval
People made own goods/trade diminished
Roman army needs
German migration |
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Language
Law
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Lack of creativity
Middle Ages |
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Expands Empire
Rewrote the legal system
Rebuilt the city
Defensive Line |
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