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| Built the Hanging Gardens, a tall stair-step pyramid with plants and irrigation for the wife of a king |
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| Were island ancestors of Greeks who made Mother Earth Goddess |
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| Cruel warriors who were known to sack cities, flay, and impale |
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| Invented methods for making silk, the wheelbarrow, movable type, firecrakers, gun powder |
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| The alphabet we use today was originated by which culture? |
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| We know about the Shangs by the oracle fortunetelling bones found in trash piles by archaeologists |
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| Jerusalem was founded by King David |
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| Ninevah was the capital of this kingdom |
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| These people had a great palace iat Knossos with an extensive labyinth underneath it-- and maybe even a mina tour?!? |
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| These people were great seafarers around the Mediterranean and spread their culture; they had great cedar trees with wich they made their boats |
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| A Great Wall, still partially standing, was greated by this group to keep out invaders from the north |
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| King Nebuchadnezzar was the main rler of this group |
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| A famous tomb with hundreds of life-size clay warriors, horses, chariots, was built by one of their kings as part of his tomb |
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| There were no walls around their cities as they felt their island home was well guarded by their "Coast Guard" |
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| Legalists in this cutlure were very strict abou7t following every law of the ruler |
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| A famous philosopher from this culture believed respecting the elderly as well as finding your "place" in society and they working 125% at it were important values a successful country needed |
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| Bull jumping was possibly a "rite of passage" to manhood in this culture |
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| People of this cutlure feared their gods greatly and felt they had to always please them or be cruely punished |
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