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Approximate date that agriculture started
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11000-8000 BC
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Geographical region where farming was first practiced
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fertile crescent
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Approximate date where farrming was first practiced
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13000 bc
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What event helped to migrate to north and south america and achieve near global distribution
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2 ice ages and land briges

 

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approx. date that sumerian civilization began

 

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3500 bc
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approx. year that egyptian civilization began
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3100 bc
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approx. year that indus river valley began
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2500 BC
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Approx. date yellow river valley began
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2000 bc
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name for termthat describes how farming began independently in multiple different places
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multiple agrerian origins
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Name thethree earliest neolithinc farming villages that archeologist found in middle east
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Abul hureya, Jericho, catul huyuk
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Name three most fundemental and dramatic affects that agriculture had on human existience.
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Population density

settled living

surplus

 

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Name for a state or politicalsystem that is controlled by elites who extract labor and resources from the vast majority of people. This is done through the threat of organized force and some kind of mutual benifit.
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Tribute taking states
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All of the early civilizations were dominated by men. What do you call this type of social hierarchy?
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patriarchal
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What term describes the economic concept of people doing various jobs based on their talents and skills?
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Specialilzation of labor
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Name three bodies of water in the proper order.

1)Body of water that separates north africa from south africa

2)Body of water that separates Egypt from arabian peninsula

3)What the two mesopatamian rivers flow into

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1)Mediteranean

2) Red sea

3)Pesian Gulf

 

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Two rivers that flow through mesopotamia
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Tigris and euphrates
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Name for a type of gov't where religionand gov't  are combined

 

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theocracy
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Term describing when a culture depicts their gods in human for
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anthropomorphic
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name for large sumerian temple
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Ziggarot
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name for sumerian written language
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Cuneiform
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Mesopotamian epic poem that is considered the worlds first literature
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Gilgamesh

 

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Akkadian leader who was first to creat mesopotamian empire by conquering the Sumerian city-states
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Sargon

 

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Political figure who united egypt and became first pharoh
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Menes
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Name for the abstract Egyptian idea describing right order and cosmic harmony

 

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Maat

 

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Place where first step pyramid was built
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sakkara
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the name of the phaaroh who had built it
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Zozer
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The architect who designed the step pyramid
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Imohotep
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egyptian capital in old kingdom
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memphis
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Egyptian capital during new kingdom
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Thebes
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Desert peninsula that connects africa to southwestern asia
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Suni pennisula
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Place where the great pyramids were built
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Giza
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Name of egyptian hawk god assosiated with pharoh as he rules on earth
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Horus
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Name of the pharaoh who attempted a radical revolutionin egyptian religionby advocating monotheism
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Akhonaten
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Only woman to rule as pharaoh of ancient egypt
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hatshepsut
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Place where tombs of the middle and new kingdom are located
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Valley of the kings

 

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Time period that new kingdom became an empire
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New Kingdom

 

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During what tim period did the first invasion occur?
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Middle Kingdom

 

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Who invaded egypt in the middle kingdom?
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Hyskos
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Name the archaeologistwho found king tutstomband the year it was discovered
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Howard Carter, 1922
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Egyptian architectural technique for large interior spaces
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Post and lintel
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Egyptian temple built by ramses II and moved by USESCO to avoid its destruction at the handsof a modern hydroelectric dam
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Abu simbel
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Whats the name of the modern city where the egyptian government that abu simbel was moved from.
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Aswan
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Name two mountain ranges located north of the indian subcontinent
Definition

Hindu Kush

Himilayah

 

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Name of the mountain pass that allows land access to the indian subcontinent
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Khyber Pass
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Seasonal wind patterns that are the primary feature of India's climate and weather
Definition
Monsoon
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Name of the two most important rivers in indian history and culture
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ganges, indus river

 

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Name of two most important cities that archaeologists have discovered from the first civilization of India
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Harrapa, mohenjo Daro
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Name of the indo-european invaders who refounded indian civilization around 1500 BC

 

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Vedic aryans
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Translated as the knowledge, brought by vedic aryans.
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The Vedas
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Language vedic aryans brought to indian subcontinent
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Sanskit
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What is the indidan/hindu name for the rigid social hierarchy established in ancient india
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Varnas
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Highest cast in the indian social hierarchy
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Brahman
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Ancient chinese civilization first emerged around what river
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yELLOW RIVER
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First family dynasty in ancient china
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Shang

 

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These artifacts have the earlist evidence of chinese writing, where used by the priests in religous rituals.
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Oracle Bones
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Highly prized artistic objects of the first chinese dynasty
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Shang bronzes
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Ancient chinese religion was based on...
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Nature and ancestors
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First capital city of the first dynasty
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An Yang 

 

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Name of geographical network or area that describes the urbanized cultures of the first four river valleys anw they became conected
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Afro Eurasia
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Most famous trade route eventaually connects Chinese civilization to the near east and meditereanean world. 
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Silk Road
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The development of written laguage...
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Helps explain why governments could become more formal and bureaucratic
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Book compiled by the disciples of confucius that contains his teachings
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Analects
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chinese philosopher who fused confucious thought with mandate of heaven
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Menicious
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Confucius word for superior man
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Chun zi
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Confucian quality that emphazized kindness and compassion
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Ren
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Chinese philosophy that believed that humans could only be brought to correct path by harsh laws and punishments.
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legalism

 

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Chief moral of taoism, disengage from world
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Wu wei
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Taoism is based on the whos teachings?
Definition
Lao Tzu
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Name the book that contains taoist teachings
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Tao de ching

 

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Name of chinese philospher that rejects moral way of confucius, important in legalism
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Han fezi
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1st real imperial dynasty of China that centralized political authority after the era of warring states
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Qin

 

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Found in 1974, this discovery marked the most impressive feature of the tomb of the first emporer in china
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Terra cotta warriors
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Chinese emporer who establish 1st imperial university in China
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Hna wudi
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Translated as the knowledge, what was the name for the religous hymns and rituals
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The Vedas
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Name for the Indian epic about rama's adventures trying to rescue sita from a demon king
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Ramayana
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Name the two ancient empires who unified india briefly during the classical age
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Maurya Gupta

 

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Name for the single, universal force or unchanging ultimate reality in hindu thought
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Brahaman
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Hindu word that means liberation. it is the escaping of all physical to reach nirvana
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Moshica
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Hindu ifeathat is central to their conception in the ohysical world, it's an endless cycle of things changing forms
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Samsara
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Hindu idea that good actions bring good results and bad actions bring bad results
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karma
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Indian idea of nonvoilence towards any livng things
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Ahimsa
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Founder of jain thought
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mahavera
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name for the time period in indian history when wise men began to abandon the villages and seek answers and truths not adressed in the vedas
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upanishadic era

 

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While political centralization was often lacking in the indian subcontinent, what provided the unity to create a common culture amoung the people
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Hinduism
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Name given to the event when young prince siddhartha gautama gave up his priviledged life to seek an answer to the dilemma of the endless cycle of mortal existience,
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The great renunciation
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Four noble truths of buddhims
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1)All life is suffering

2)Source of suffering is desire

3)To stop suffering you must stop desiring

4) Follow the eightfold path

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Name for the agreement or contract in judaism or contract in judaism between yahweh and the hebrews
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covenant
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Name for the event in Jewish history that describes theHebrews being released from egyptian slavery and expelled from the nile valley
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Exodus
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Hebrew sacred text that includes Jewish religous ideas, laws, and history
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Torah
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Person who is considered the patriarchal or father of the Jewish people
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Abraham
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Great warrior king of the jews
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King david
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Name of the canaanite tribe the Jews were battling for land
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Philistines
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Nme for short lived Jewish Kingdom
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Kingdom of isreal
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Name for jewish king who ruled at its pinnicle
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solomon
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Name for the time period when jew were conquered, deported, and made slaves.
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Babylonian captivity
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Name for the desert peninsula that conects africa to asia and is where the jews migrated through after being expelled from egypt
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Sinai peninsula 
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Name the two later extentions of judaic ethical monotheism that have has a major impact on world history
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muslim
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Name for the sea that geographically is the center of the Greek world
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Aegean Sea
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Name for the Greek coast of asia minor
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ionia
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City state that greek philosophy that greek philosophy originated from
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Miletus
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He is considered to be the first greek philosopher...water
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Thales
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Greek philosopher who developed the idea of atomic theory to explain the physical universe

 

Definition
Dromedes
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Greek philosopher who saw the key to all existience in math
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Pythagorus
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Greek philosopher and sophists who claimed that man is the measure of all things 
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Protagorus
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Plato's great work of philosophy where he explains utopia
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Republic
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Theme of platos great work of philosophy
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Intelligent people are supposed to tell the lesser people what to do.
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Name for plato's theory that noth attacks sophist thought and answers the problem of thales.
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Doctrine of the forms.
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Name for the story that is a metaphor illistrating platos view of what is real
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allegory of the cave
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School in athens founded by plato
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academy
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form of government that plato asserts as the most unjust.
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democracy
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who does plato believe should have political power to ensure a just society?
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philosophers
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Greek philosopher who thought the key to human hapiness was to be found by following the golden mean,
Definition
Aristotle
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Which of the following is not descriptive of philosophy?
Definition
It believes in an order to universe that only the gods can alter
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The work of aristotle 
Definition

Ivolves fields of knowledge from physics, astronomy, biologym politics, and ethics

shared the assumption of plato that order exists in the universe

Stressed moderation in human behavior and politics

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The socratic method emphazized the importance of 
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questioning
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Socrates wasconcerned that the young men of athens examined their lives in the pursuit of
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morality and ethical behavior
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Greek philosophy began  with the assumption that
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there's order in the universe
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Platos pupil aristote differed from his teacher in that he
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focused on understanding the material world
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Jewish monothism
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emphasized the power and abstraction of God
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The ancient Hebrews were
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Atribal society
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The chinese view of nature emphasized
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Harmony and balance
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Budhism differed from hinduism by not believing in
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the caste system
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The indian caste system served to an extent as a political instituition by
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enforcing rules about social behavior
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Approx age of universe
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13.7 billion years
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approximate age of earth
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4.5 billion
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when and where do scientists believe life on earth began?
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3.8 billion years ago in sea vents
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name for the techniques used to date past events
Definition
chronometric and carbon dating
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Name for the scientific method used to date past events
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Chronometric and carbon dating
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Name for the scientific method used to date objects in archaeology and geology. This was made possible by the curries and william Libby
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Radiometric dating
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this american astronomer provided that the entire universe is expanding

 

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Edwin Hubble
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What is thename of the scientific technique used by astronomers to calculate the distances of stars.
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Parallax
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After the Big Bang these were the smallest constituents of matter (that we know of) to form.They would eventually clump together to form protons and nuetrons.
Definition
Quarks
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These two atoms are the first real matter in the universe and the lightest of all the elements,
Definition
Hydrogen and helium
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Before one second after the big bang had elapsed, the four fundemental forces came into existience. What were they?
Definition
Gravity, electromagnetic, strong nuclear force, weak nuclear force
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nAME FOR THE FIRST EON ON EARTH
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hadeon eon
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After the melted earth coolm the different elements sorted themselves into the distinct layers. Name the four distinct layers of the earth.
Definition
Core, mantle, crust, atmoshere
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Besides the earth cooling down, what two things occured during the archaen eon that greatly contributed to the creating the earth we know today?
Definition
The number of colissions ceased and the appearance and free oxygen happened.
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In arguing that the earth's surface is not fixed or statistic geologist alfred wegener proposed what two essential theories?
Definition
Pangea and the continental drift
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What is the name of the theory central to modern geology that explains how the continentes move and the surface of the earth is formed.
Definition
Plate tectonics
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Name the book and year of publication in which darwin solved the riddle of adaptation.
Definition
On the origen of species by means of natural selection in 1859.
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Name the first single celled living organisms on earth
Definition
prokaryotes
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What event seems to have triggered the first appearance of mammales and dinosaurs around 250 million years ago?
Definition
Permian extinction, adaptive radiation
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What two related events around 67 million bc seems to have allowed mammals to flourish and diversify?
Definition
Astroid impact and death of dinosaurs
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Name for the scientifics classification of the subfamily of bipedal apes that evolved about 7 million years ago
Definition
hominid
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This early human ancestor flourished from about 4 to 1 million BC. They were bipedal, short and a brain about the size of modern humans, lucy is a famous example of one.
Definition
Austrolopithicines
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Speaking of Lucy where(village and country) were her remains found?
Definition
Hadar, ethiopia
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Two major accomplishments of homoerectus
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Learned to harness fire, began to travel out of africa.
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Complete the biological classification for humans
Definition
Eukaryotes, animal, vertibrates, mammal, primates, hominoid, hominid, homo, homo sapien
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Name of author of Guns, germs, and steal
Definition
Jared Diamond
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wHAT was the thesis of guns, germs and steel
Definition
Geography had an affect on civilization
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What was the subsistience strategy of humans during the paleolithic age that took nearly 100,000
Definition
The main accomplishment was near global distribution
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From the big bang to the origin of humans has been the scope of out first unit. What has been the unifying theme for such a massive amount of history? After you have identified the theme list the major thresholds we have crossed this journey.
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Unifying theme: Increasing complexity

creation of the universe 

creation of the stars

 thechemical elements

The planets and solar system

First signs of life

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