World History 1-1 – Flashcards
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Neolithic Culture could survive without this but we couldn't
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Education
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The source of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers is in
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the mountains of Turkey
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Sumerians didn't trade this medal
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iron
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The culture most closely associated with seafaring, trading, and establishing colonies on other continents that border the Mediterranean Sea
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Phoenicians
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Civilization in Southwest Asia that lasted the longest
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city-states of Sumer
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Neolithic people developed systems of mathematics for all of the following reasons
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counting money
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Ziggurats intention for the city-states of Sumer were
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temples
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Trade was important to the people of Sumer becase
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needed natural resources: stone, wood, metal
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Hammurabi's law code was important because
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most complete Mesopotamian law code known
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Egypt became a unified kingdom early in its history because
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the Nile was a convenient passageway for conquest
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Pyramids of Giza are cool because
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they are the most massive made structures till the 20th Century
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The conquest of one culture by another usually resulted in NOT
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extermination (because they wanted to use them as slaves)
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Egyptians who could afford it mummified the bodies of the deceased
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to prepare them for their existence in the afterlife
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Semite means these two groups of people
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Jews and Chaldeans
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Akkadians created this writing
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Cuneiform
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First people to write their language by pressing symbols into wet clay
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Sumerians
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Most commonly spoken language in the Fertile Cresent
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Aramaic
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Major contribution of the Jews was
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Rewriting law codes
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Middle Eastern Civilization lasting over 1000 years before being conquered
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Sumerian
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King Solomon honored the commitment to his father by
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Building a temple in Jerusalem
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Pair of people living in Levant
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Hebrews and Phoenicians
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Once the Chaldeans defeated the Hebrew Kingdom they
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enslaved the Jews and took them in captivity to to Babylon
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Romans forced the Jews to leave Jerusalem because
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Jews rebelled against Roman rule in Palestine
