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02. Sunday, Monday Flashcards

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1
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What are the two rivers?

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Tigris and Euphrates.

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Where are the rivers located?

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In Asia.

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What the Greek name for this land?

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Mesopotamia (now called Iraq)

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What is present day Mesopotamia?

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Iraq In the Middle East.

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What do the rivers flow into which sea?

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Into the Persian Gulf.

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What language is strokes ending in small triangles or wedges?

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Cuneiform.

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What does Cuneiform mean?

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wedge-shape.

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8
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Why didnt they make books?

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Papyrus was unknown to mesopotamians.

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What did they write in?

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Tablets made out of clay that they cooked in ovens

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10
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Who is Gilgamesh?

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A hero who defeated dragons and monsters.

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What did they write on the tablets?

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They boast about the kings and their deeds.
About Gilgamesh.
Merchants wrote their business deals, contracts, receipts, inventions.

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What do we know because they kept track of their trades?

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That even before the Babylonians and Assyrians the ancient Sumerians were great traders.

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What was their merchants good at?

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They could calculate with ease and plainly knew the difference between what was lawful and what was not.

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14
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What does the planet Mars represent?

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It represent war

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What planet does Venus represent?

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It represents luv.

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16
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What are 5 of the days named after?

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The planets, and gods.

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17
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What is Monday named after?

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The moon.

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18
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What is Sunday name after?

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Saturn.

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19
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What are the other days named after?

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Diffrent gods.

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20
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Where are the remains of cities hidden?

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They’re hidden under hills.

21
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What’s Babylon?

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An ancent city known for it’s trading hub. People from all over the world came to trade here

22
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What’s Nineveh?

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It’s the second most popular trading hub.

23
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Who owned Babylon?

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The Babylonians.

24
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Who owned Nineveh?

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The Assyrians.

25
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Who owned Memsopotamia?

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More than one person, split into tribes.

26
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Who were the 3 people in Mesopotamia?

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Sumerians, Babylonians, and Assyrians.

27
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Where the Sumerians ahead the Egyptians?

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Yes.

28
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What ruined the cities?

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The heat and weather

29
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Whats the main trading hub?

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Babylon.

30
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Who owned Babylon?

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The Babylonians

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Whats the second most popular trading hub?

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Nineveh

32
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Who owned Nineveh?

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The Assyrians.

33
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Who owned Mesopatamia?

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More than one person

34
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What year did they build hoses and temples?

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3100BCE.

35
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What’s the city of Ur?

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It’s where the bible says Abraham was born.

36
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What was founf in tombs?

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Dazzling gold headdresses, gold vessels, gold helmets, gold daggers with semi importants gems, harps with the heads of bulls carved into it, and game boards resembling chest

37
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What’s the oldest book that has laws in it?

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Code of Hammurabi.

38
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Who was one of the first kings?

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Hammurabi.

39
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How long ago did Hammurabi live?

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1700 BCE, or 3700 years ago.

40
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What were the paintings that the Babylonians, and Assyrians like?

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They were of kings out hunting and inspecting captives.

41
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How did the king look?

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He was forbidding, and had long beard and long ringlets. It showed him making sacrifies to Baal the sun god. or Astarte the moon goddess

42
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Whos the goddess of the moon?

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Astarte.

43
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Whos the god of the sun?

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Baal.

44
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Who’s Nebuchadnezzar

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He was a king around 600BC and remembered for his feats in war

45
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What are stars?

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Magical beings.

46
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What did they observe?

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Thye observe the stars and find shapes in the constalations.

47
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What did giglmesh defeat>

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Monsters and dragons

48
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What

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World History (5 decks)

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