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Where in Germany were people digging where they came across a human bone?

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Heidelberg

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What did people find while digging in Heidelberg?

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A human bone

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What kind of bone was discovered in Heidelberg?

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A lower jaw

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Where was a human skull found in Germany?

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In Neander Valley

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What qualities defined the bone that people found in Heidelberg?

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Massive, strong, powerful, teeth

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What was found in Neander Valley?

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A human skull

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What qualities defined the skull In Neander Valley?

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No forehead with two thick ridges above the eyebrows instead

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How are we perhaps different from the neanderthal people?

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They might not have been good at thinking but were better at biting than us

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9
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What did scientists find about wood and plants and Volcanic rocks?

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They change slowly but regularly over a very long period of time

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10
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How long did the search for bones last?

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More than a hundred and fifty years ago

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11
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Why is it called prehistory?

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Because It came before history

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12
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How did prehistoric people get away from the freezing cold?

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The prehistoric people came across a cave for shelter

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13
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Do you know what the prehistoric people invented?

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They invented talking

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14
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The prehistoric people invented something else?

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They also invented pictures

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15
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Why did the prehistoric people paint animals on their walls?

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Because the caves were dark

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16
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How long did the Ice age last?

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For tens and thousands of years

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17
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Did the earth grow warmer?

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Yes

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18
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Did the ice retreat when the earth grew warmer?

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Yes

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19
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What wild animals were in the forest?

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Wolves and bears

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20
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What were the prehistoric people masters at?

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Shaping and polishing

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21
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How long ago did Neanderthal people appear?

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seventy thousand years earlier

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22
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In Asia and Africa what was found there?

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Bones

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23
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What was as old as the Heidelberg jaw?

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Bones

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24
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When did the people find a better way to make tools?

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4000 BCE

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25
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What was melted into the fire called?

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Copper

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26
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What did the people use for protection?

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Helmets and Shields

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27
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What did they use to fight?

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Bows and arrows

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28
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Which three ages were there?

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  1. Stone Age
  2. Ice Age
  3. Bronze Age
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29
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People didn’t know how to build what?

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Houses

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30
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How did they make fire?

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By rubbing two sticks together

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31
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5100 years ago there was a king what was his name?

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Menes

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32
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Where does the setting take place?

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In Egypt

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33
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Who worshiped the Nile like it was God?

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Egyptians

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33
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What flies south to Italy?

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Swallows

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34
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What was a king of Egypt called?

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Pharaohs

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35
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Who believed in many gods?

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Egyptians

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35
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Which king lived in 2500 BC?

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King Cheops

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36
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What was a single block of granite called?

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Obelisks

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37
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Where can you see an Obelisk?

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London by the Thames

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38
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What kind of animal was sacred ?

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Sphinx

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39
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What kind of whip did the kings have?

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Hippopotamus skin whip

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40
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How long have Sphinx been guarding the tombs of pharaohs?

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For more than five thousand years

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41
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What did they rub on dead people?

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Ointments and the juices of certain plants

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42
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A dead body preserved today is called a what?

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Mummy

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43
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What was a coffin made out of?

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Wood

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44
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Why did they use long strips of cloth?

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So it wouldn’t decay

45
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A blank what intended to be a dwelling?

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Tomb

46
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Who was immensely powerful?

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Pharaohs

47
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In the hymn what did they talk about?

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Barley, wheat and cattle

48
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Twice a year blank filled it’s sources?

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Heavy rain

49
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When the waters blank?

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withdrew

50
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What was the name of the sun god, and the god of the dead?

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Sun God- Amon
The God of the dead- Anubis

51
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What was King Cheops Tomb made out of?

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A whole stone mountain

52
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A tomb was intended to be a blank for the soul?

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Dwelling for the soul when it returned to visit its body

53
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Which Egyptian God had the head of a jackal?

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Anubis

54
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What was represented in animal form?

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Gods

55
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Would you like to hear a hymn they sang to their river happened how long ago?

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Four thousand years ago

56
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What is a cathedral?

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A large church

57
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Who summoned all his subjects to help construct his tomb?

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King Cheops

58
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But the mummies of other kings and those of many ancient Egyptians have been blank in their tombs?

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undisturbed

59
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They had no machines in those days what did they have instead ?

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Only rollers and pulleys

60
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For thirty years, some hundred thousand toiled for the blank?

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Pharaoh

61
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They had to blank and blank every single block by hand

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Pull and Shove

62
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How many days are there in the week ?

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Seven

63
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What were the names of the two rivers?

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Tigris and Euphrates

64
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Mesopotamia is Greek for what?

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The land between the rivers

65
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Great cities laid out with long what?

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Straight streets, tall houses, palaces and temples

66
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What was the greatest city on earth?

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Babylon

67
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What was the second greatest city called?

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Nineveh

68
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Blank was the capital for Babylonians?

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Babylon

69
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Who was in charge of the Assyrians?

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Nineveh

70
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Many blank and many blank held power at different times?

A

Tribes and Kings

71
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Who were the three most important groups/tribes?

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Sumerians, Babylonians and Assyrians

72
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In Egyptian culture they had blank?

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Towns, Noblemen, Temples, and
Priests , Administrators ,Artists,
Kings, Tradesmen ,writing and technical skills

73
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Sumerians were ahead of the what?

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Egyptians

74
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People learned how to shape blank from blank?

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Bricks from Clay

75
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People learned how to build houses and temples by?

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3100 BC

76
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Where can you find the largest mounds?

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The city of Ur

77
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A region in the Middle East is know called what?

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Iraq

78
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The Tigris and Euphrates join together and flow out to where?

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Persian Gulf

79
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Mesopotamia is not in Africa but where?

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Asia

80
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If you dig through bricks and rubble, you meet blank?

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Stout and high walls

81
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Cuneiform means what?

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Wedge Shaped

82
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Books made of papyrus were unknown to?

A

Mesopotamia

83
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Inscriptions were not found in?

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Hieroglyphs

84
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The oldest book law- book was known as the?

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Code of Hammurabi

85
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King Hammurabi lived around 1700 BC how long ago was that?

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That was 3700 years ago

86
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The Babylonians and the Assyrians were blank and blank?

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Disciplined and Hardworking

87
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But they didn’t paint blank like the Egyptians?

A

Cheerful Pictures

88
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Where can you find treasures?

A

At the British Museum, The University of Pennsylvania

89
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Where else can you find treasures?

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At the museum of Baghdad In Iraq

90
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What did people do to tablets of soft clay?

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They put them in the oven

91
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Who battled Monsters and Dragons?

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Gilgamesh

92
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Kings had temples built for all eternity and what else?

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And all the nations they have conquered

93
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Merchants recorded their business dealing, contracts, receipts and what else?

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And the inventories of goods

94
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What did kings have?

A

Long black ringlets

95
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Somethings the tribes were shown making sacrifices to who?

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Baal the sun good or the moon goddess Ishtar or Astarte

96
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Who worshiped the sun and the moon and the stars?

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Babylonians and The Assyrians

97
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What was reappearing every night?

A

The vault of Heaven

98
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Mars meant wars and what did Venus mean?

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Love

99
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What was dedicated a day?

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Each of the five plants

100
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These half ruined blank can still be seen today?

A

Ziggurats

101
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The earliest kings lived as long ago as?

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3000 BC

102
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Ziggurats were poking out of what?

A

Rubble mounds

103
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Who was the last Babylonian King?

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Nebuchadnezzar

104
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Nebuchadnezzar lived around Blank BC?

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600 BC

105
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Nebuchadnezzar was remembered for his blank?

A

Feats of war

106
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He fought against Egypt to bring home what to Babylon?

A

Foreign Captives

107
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Nebuchadnezzar used the foreign captives as what?

A

Slaves

108
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Those fierce kings had what?

A

Long, Black beards

109
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The land today is a what?

A

Desert wasteland and marshy plain

110
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Foreign tribes did what?

A

They attacked fortresses

111
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Weekdays started how long ago?

A

thousand of years ago

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