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Chinampas were made by who?

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Aztecs

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Capitol of Inca Empire

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Cuzco

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Knotted strings used for record keeping

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Quipu

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Most NAs originally came during when?

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Last Ice Age

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NA tribe in Maryland

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Piscataway

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NA political leader who made Iroquois peaceful union

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Dekanawidah

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NA in the Artic

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Inuit

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NA woman who became a saint in October 2012

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Kateri Tekakwitha

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Pocahontas came from where?

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Virginia

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Olmecs are partially known for what?

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Creation and movement of 40 ton stone heads

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Artificial islands used for growing crops

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Chinampas

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Common mesoamerican civilization characteristics

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Chocolate, ball courts, calendar

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Ancient people famous for sailing and writing

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Phoenicians

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Son of Abraham, almost sacrificed on Mt.Moriah

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Isaac

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Once the Capitol of Assyria, the city was rebuilt by Saddam Hussim

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Nineveh

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Persian administrative officials

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Satraps

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Hebrew Scriptures are also known as

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Old Testament

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Captains of the Jewish people under Deborah

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Barak

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Most sacred part of the Hebrew Scriptures to the Jews

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Torah

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Term that refers to the spread of Jewish people

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Diaspora

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Hebrew patriarch who was sold by his brothers, became Egyptian vizier because of his ability to interpret dreams

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Joseph

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Binding agreement with God

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Covenant

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Woman who became a Jewish judge

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Deborah

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Jewish leader who led the Israelites from Egypt to the land of Canaan

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Moses

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The found of the Israelite nation who brought his family from the city of Ur to the land of Israel
Abraham
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In the Epic of Gilgamesh, the people and the animals sailed on their boat for how long?
One week
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In the Epic of Gilgamesh, the person who survives the Great Flood
Utnapishtim
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Sumerians developed a form of writing used in the ancient world until the time of Christ. This was known as what?
Cuneiform
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One of the Sumerians greatest accomplishments
Invention of the wheel
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The area of Mesopotamia is located around what rivers in the ancient world
Tigris and Euphrates
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Sumerian temples in the shape of stair stepped pyramids
Ziggurats
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Sumerian story of the Great Flood
Epic of Gilgamesh
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Oldest civilization in the Middle East
Sumer
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City known for its "Hanging Gardens"
Babylon
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Author of one of the most famous law codes in the ancient world
Hammurabi
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Civilization that conquered Greece and Crete about 1450 BC
Mycenae
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Book that told about the Trojan War
Illiad
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Archaeologist who believed the story of the Trojan Wr and found Troy in Turkey
Heinrich Schliemann
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Leader who rebuilt Athens after the Persian war
Pericles
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Student of Plato, taught Alexander the Great
Aristotle
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Philosopher who taught Plato and was executed for this ideas
Socrates
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Temple to the Goddess Athena
Parthenon
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Greek historian who was concerned about avoiding bias
Thucydides
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Philosopher who found the circumference of the Earth
Eratosthenes
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Ultimate goal of Hinduism
Moskva
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Turkish kingdom in northern India
Dehlisultanate
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First Mughal emperor of India
Babur
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Sun was the center of the solar system was discovered by who?
Aristarchus
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Most important military Greek hero of the Trojan War
Achilles
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Most well known faces of India
Mother Theresa and Ghandi
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Earliest civilization of India had these two cities
Harappa And Dholavira
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Started conquering around 1500 BC
Aryans
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Built the Taj Mahal
Timur the Lame
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Encouraged good relations between Hindus and Muslims
Akbar the Great
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First woman prime minister of India
Indira Ghandi
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First woman president of India
Prathiba Patil
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Hindu term for the religious and social duties of a person
Dharma
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Muslim people of Central Asia who conquered most of India
Mongols
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Founder of the first great Hindu empire in India who defeated the Greeks and India
Chandragupta Maurya
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Greatest ruler of the Mughal empire who worked to improve relations between Muslims and Hindus
Akbar
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Descendants of the people of the Indus Valley civilization are thought to include
Dravidians and Tamil
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English queen who became empress of India
Victoria
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Ahimsa is the Hindu term for
Nonviolence
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The Indus Valley civilization included a large number of cities including this which is the largest
Dholavira
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Merchants and craftsmen are in this caste
Vaisyas
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The holy river of Hinduism in which Hindus hope to bathe in at least once in their lifetime
Ganges
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Satyagraha means
Insistence on truth, soul force, nonviolent resistance
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Considered one of the greatest emperors of the Hindu Empire, this Maurya leader gave up killing after the battle of Kalinga, became a Buddhist, and spread Buddhist teachings throughout India
Asoka
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It is probable that the Aryans were able to conquer the Indus Valley civilization because
Climatic conditions such as drought
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Language of the ancient Aryans
Sanskrit
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Oldest known dynasty in China who's story is told in ancient texts
Xia dynasty
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One of the ancient texts of China that tells the story of the first dynasty
The bamboo Annals
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Son of Akenaton, died young, richest tomb discovered
Tutankhamen
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Pharoah, attempted monotheism, happy family life, wife was Nefertiti
Akhenaton
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Deciphered the Rosetta Stone
Jean Champollion
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How old was Lucy? Who found her?
1.2 million years old, Leakey family
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When and where was the oldest skeleton found? By who?
3.3 million years old, was found in Ethiopia by Donald Johansen
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Hominids began when? Where?
4 million years ago in Africa
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Long reign, extended Egypt into Mesopotamia
Ramses the second
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Woman who rules as a man. Expanded trade and influence.
Hatshepsut

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