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| What is a thesis statement? |
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| a one-sentence statement of historical argument |
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| What is the Genesis Creation Story? |
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| The story of Adam and Eve that we as Christians believe to have originated sin |
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| What is Young Earth Creationism? |
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| The belief that the earth is literally the number of years specified in the Bible, making it 6,000-10,000 years old |
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| What is Day Age Creationism? |
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| The belief that God was metaphorical in his sense of time, therefore believing that the earth could be millions of years old |
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| What is Theistic Evolution? |
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| The belief that evolution exists, but it happens through God's works. Believers are often called Christian Darwinists |
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| The first two people on Earth who are believed to have made original sin that then passes on to us like a genetic disease |
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| What was the Paleolithic Age like? |
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Definition
-crude
-survival was goal of life
-nomadic
-hunter-gatherers |
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| What was the Neolithic Age like? |
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Definition
-civilized
-domesticated animals
-permanent settlements |
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| What does Mesopotamia mean? |
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| Meso means middle, pot means river, so it means between river(s) |
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| In what is known as the Fertile Crescent between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers |
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| What was the geography like in Mesopotamia? |
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| it was warm & wet, with the rivers flooding unpredictably |
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| What was the religion like in Mesopotamia? |
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-polytheistic
-believed that their gods had human characteristics
-after life was dark and doomed(land of no return)
- chief god was Enlil
-worshipped in ziggurats |
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| the Mesopotamian form of writing with wedges |
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| What was the Epic of Gilgamesh about? |
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| the ruler's quest for immorality |
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| What was the Code of Hammurabi? |
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| it was a written set of laws made by King Hammurabi |
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| What were the 3 Mesopotamian social classes? |
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| How did the economy work in Mesopotamia? |
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| What was the geography of Egypt? |
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| it was dry but fertile with the Nile nearby, that flooded predictably |
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| What was Egyptian religion like? |
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Definition
-polytheistic
-believed in the afterlife
-mummified the dead
-book of the dead was left with the mummies |
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| What were the pyramids for? |
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| they were giant tombs for pharaohs and rulers |
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| The Egyptian form of writing |
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| What is the Rosetta Stone? |
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| a tablet of 3 different languages that allowed us to translate Egyptian |
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| Who were the Egyptian leaders? |
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| What was the Egyptian economy like? |
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-barter system
-importance of agriculture |
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| What were the social structures in Egypt? |
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-highly stratified
-high status of women |
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| a huge archaeological site that led to the discovery of the Indus River Valley Civilization |
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| What was the Indus Valley geography like? |
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Definition
-near the Indus River
-limited outside contact |
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| How was the Indus Valley Civilization urban? |
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Definition
-urban planning
-hydraulic engineering
-no large structures
-egalitarian(equal wealth) |
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| What was the writing like in Indus? |
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Definition
-mysterious
-no way of decoding |
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| What was the art like in the Indus? |
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| What was the Olmec ballgame like? |
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Definition
-played with the hips
-used a ball |
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| What were the colossal heads? |
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Definition
| they are believed to be the heads of the rulers |
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| What is unique about the Wrestler? |
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Definition
| his postioning is different from that time period |
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| What is the Olmec geography like? |
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Definition
-modern-day Mexico
-no river
-different part of the globe |
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| What did blood-letting, human sacrifice, and the were-jaguar all have in common in the Olmec society? |
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| they were all religious practices |
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| What was the geography of China like? |
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-isolated(ethnocentric)
-Yangtze & Yellow river |
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| bones with prophecies written on them that people used to eat until someone found writing |
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| the site oracle bones were found |
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| What caused the downfall of the Shang Dynasty? |
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Definition
| the terrible rulers caused a revolt |
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| What were the social structures during the Zhou Dynasty? |
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-feudalism
-five punishments |
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| What was a common punishment in China? |
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| What is the Mandate of Heaven? |
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| it defines what the ruler can/can't do according to heaven |
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