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World History
Chapter 2
47
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10/31/2005

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King who first united Upper and Lower Egypt.
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Menes
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Vizier who wrote a book used in training young officials
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Ptah-hotep
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Queen of the New Kingdom who declared herself pharaoh
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Hetshepshut
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People who invaded Egypt around 1700 b.c.
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Hyksos
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Why did the Egyptians look forward to the flooding of the Nile?
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Flood deposited rich soil on the fields
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Why did the Egyptians build the pyramids?
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To show wealth and strength
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Preservation of the dead through embalming and wrapping the body in linen
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Mummification
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A simple form of writing for everyday use.
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Demotic
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Egytian picture writing
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hieroglyphics
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Reedy plant used for making writing materials
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papyrus
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What social class were the majority of Egyptians?
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peasant Farmers
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Why is the Rosetta Stone important?
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Jean Champollion unlocked the meanings of many hieroglyphic symbols
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Tigris and the Euphrates are the boundries of?
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Mesopotamia
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sumerians built large -----, which included a shrine for the chief god or goddess
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Ziggurats
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Sumerians invented the earliest form of writing know as
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cuneiform
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_____ is an example of Sumerian lit.
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The Epic of Gilgamesh
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Sumerians built their cities out of clay brick because
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They lacked other building materials
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Sumerians believed the afterlife was ....
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A good place for those who lived a good life
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Each Sumerian city-state ruler was expected to
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Lead armies in war and enforce the laws
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What is the Fertile Crescent
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arc of land the cuves from the Persian Gulf to the eastern Med. Coast
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Laws of private rights and matters
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civil law
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Governer who oversaw a province
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satrap
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Exchange of goods and services for other goods or services
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barter economy
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Territory settled and ruled by people from a distant land
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colony
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What did the Hittites bring to Meopotamia?
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ironmaking
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What are of learning did Nebachadnezzar employ?
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Astronomy
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The sacred text of the Hebrews
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Torah
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Believing in only one God
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monotheistic
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a binding agreement
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covenant
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Laws the Jews believe God gave to Moses
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Ten Commandments
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A spiritual leader
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prophet
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The scattering of people
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diaspora
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How did most Jewish laws treat women?
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Inferior to men
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Code of ethics preached by many Jewish prophets
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personal morality and justice
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Leader that united the Hebrew tribes into a single nation
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David
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How did the Jewish view of God differ from the commonly accepted view?
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Jews believed in only on God
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Narrow water passage
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Straight
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Conflict caused by economic rivalry between the Myceans and Troy
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Trojan War
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Great poet who wrote the Iliad
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Homer
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Site of the palace of the Minoan Rulers
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Knosses
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Businessman who proved that the Trojan War reall occured
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Heinrich Schliemann
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Minoan Civilization was successful because of
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trade
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Minoan civilization ended because
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Mycenaean invaders from the north
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Myceans learned the art of ____ from the Minoans
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Writing
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Trojan was was caused by
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Kidnapping of Helen
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Long hours of drill perfected the ___ method of fighting
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Phalanx
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A government that is ruled by a powerful elite, usually the business class
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oligarchy
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