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5 characteristics of civilization

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Complex institutions
Advanced technology 
Advanced cities
Record keeping
Specialized workers
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Egyptian started near ________

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Nile river

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Mesopotamian started near

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Tigris and Euphrates river

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Harrapan started near

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Indus and Ganges river

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Chinese started near

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Yellow and Yangtze River

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Why did civilization began near rivers

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Transportation, foods, water source, protection, communication

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Environmental challenges early civilizations faced

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Droughts, flooding, famine

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Followed Hammurabi’s code

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Mesopotamians

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Punishments for the code of Hammurabi

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An eye for an eye

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Geography of Greece

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Mountainous and surrounded by water

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Famous poet: Odyssey and Iliad

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Homer

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Greek architecture

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Columns

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Socrates

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Socratic method

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Plato

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Republic

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Aristotle

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Scientific method

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Persian

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Persia vs. Greece

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Peloponnesian

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Athens vs. Sparta

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Conquered by Alex the great

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Greece, Persia, Egypt, India

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Cultural diffusion

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The Silk Road and Hellenism

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Rome’s government

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Republic

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Why were roads and aqueduct s important to Roman Empire

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Transportation

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Cause the fall of Rome

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Germanic tribes

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Eastern Roman Empire

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Byzantine empire

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Greatest emperor of Byzantine

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Constantine

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6.5 million deaths
Loss of religion
Feudalism

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Plague

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Renaissance

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Re birth of art and learning

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Inspired Renaissance

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Greek and roman times

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Humanism

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Focusing on humans instead of God

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Sistine chapel

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Michelangelo

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School of Athens

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Raphael

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Last supper

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Da Vinci

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Pieta

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Michelangelo

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Mona Lisa

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Da Vinci

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David

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Michelangelo

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Perspective

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3D

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Secular

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Concerned with worldly

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Vernacular

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Everyday language

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Machiavelli

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The Prince: be fear than loved

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Patrons

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Paid for art work

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Printing press

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Gutenberg

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Prehistoric

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Before written record

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