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what is the agricultural revolution

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When people started to farm and domesticate animals, instead of hunting and gathering

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when was the agricultural revolution

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10,000 BC

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what does paleolithic mean

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old stone age

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what happened during the paleolithic era

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people lived in hunter-gatherer tribes, and used stone tools

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what does mesolithic mean

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middle stone age

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what happened during the mesolithic era

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the agricultural revolution began

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what does neolithic mean

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new stone age

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what happened in the neolithic era

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villages started to form, and people relied on domesticated crops and animals

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what does prehistory mean

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time before written language

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what does hunter-gatherer mean

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nomads who hunt and gather plants and animals instead of growing and raising them

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11
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when does history start

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3000 BC

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12
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dates of Harappan civilization

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2600-1800 BC

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who was Ashoka

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ruler of the Maurya empire, he retired and became Buddhist which helped make buddhism more popular and more prominent

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years of Ashoka’s reign

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268-233 BC

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who is siddhartha guatama

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he was “the Buddha’ he founded Buddhism

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when did Siddhartha guatama live

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563-483 BC

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when and why does the Harappan Civilization disappear

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theory 1) environmental change, the river dried up
theory 2) the aryan invasion

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dates of mauryan empire

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321-185

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what is the caste system

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a rigid social class system passed down through families

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what is reincarnation

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when you die and are reborn in a different body

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what is dharma

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is positive, removes karma, comes from good deeds

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what is karma

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is a negative, you don’t want it, comes from bad deeds, dharma gets rid of it, prevents you from reaching nirvana

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what is nirvana

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the final goal, an escape from reincarnation and karma, there is no no desire or suffering

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what are the 4 noble truths of Buddhism

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1) life is suffering
2) desire & ignorance are the cause of that suffering
3) you can get out of the suffering
4)the way out of suffering = the 8 fold path

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what is the 8 fold path

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right view, right resolve, right speech, right conduct, right livelihood, right effort,right mindfulness, right samadhi

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religous text of Aryans

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Veda

27
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who is Hammurabi

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king of Babylon, made the oldest most complete law code we have

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when did Hammurabi reign

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1792-1750 BC

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1st empire

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Akkadian empire

30
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what is a city-state

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a city that forms an independent sovereign state

31
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what is the capital of the Hittite empire

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Hattusa

32
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when was the battle between the Egyptians and Hittite empire

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1285 BC

33
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when did the Egyptians perfect and build pyramids

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old kingdom

34
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how is Egyptian history divided

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old kingdom, middle kingdom, new kingdom, intermediate 1, intermediate 2

35
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king of Lydia

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croesus

36
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date of aryan invasion

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1500 BC

37
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who are the Phoenicians, why do we care

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highly skilled sailors and merchants, known for the purple dye they sold, invented the alphabet

38
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Israel split is the 2 kingdoms of:

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Judah and Israel

39
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when was Judah destroyed?

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598

40
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when was Israel destroyed

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722

41
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years of babylonian exile

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598-538

42
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when do israelites enter canaan

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1200

43
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where is Minoan Civilization

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on Crete

44
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dates for seize of troy

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1194-1184

45
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what are Greek dark ages

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caused by the Dorian invasion, a time of no records or writing, so we don’t know much about it

46
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when are greek dark ages

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1200-800

47
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evidence from the minoan civilization comes from what site

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knossos

48
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where does the name of the aegean sea come from

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the father of Theseus, Aegeas, threw himself into the sea when he thought his son was dead

49
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who was Darius, what did he do

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king of Persia started the Royal Road, conquered thrace and indus valley, organised the empire into satrapies (provinces)

50
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when did Darius reign

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521-486 BC

51
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who was Cyrus the Great, what did he do

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king of Persia, conquered Lydia, Babylon, and
the Medean empire

52
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when did cyrus the great reign

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559-530

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who was Cambyces, what did he do

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king of Persia, moved the capital of Persia to Susa, conquered egypt

54
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reign of Cambyces

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529-522

55
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what is zoarastrianism

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the monotheistic religion of Persia, with one universal, uncreated, supreme deity= Ahura Mazda, truth was revealed through the prophet Zoroastar, when you die your soul stays on earth for 3 days and 1 night

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theory for the end of the Mycenaean civilization

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Natural disasters such as earthquakes and volcanic eruptions

57
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what is the Achaemenid empire

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the first persian empire, started by cyrus the great,

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