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History Chapter 1 ✝️ Flashcards

1
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History is divided into two great time periods designed as?

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B.C. (Before Christ)

A.D. (anno domini) in the year of our lord

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The first event of Jesus Christ to earth, his incarnation, birth life, death, resurrection, and ascension is

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The focal point of all history

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3
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The three eras of history

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Ancient history

Medieval history

Modern history

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4
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Institution that has both authority and power to control direct and to rule in actions and affairs of others

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Government

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5
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Has supreme power over all nations, rulers, and individuals

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Sovereign

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6
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After the flood

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Deluge

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7
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First foundational civil ordinance

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Capital punishment

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8
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Where did Noah’s ark be put to rest?

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Plane of Shinar

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9
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Post flood

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Postdiluvian

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10
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Nimrod

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Builder of the first world Empire

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A large group of people who think of themselves as one and act in history as a single entity

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Nation

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12
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Mankind can be divided into several large groups called

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Races

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13
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The Bible speaks of the Earth being divided in the days of? Which means division.

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Peleg

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14
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A common language called _____________ which began diverging into the ancient and modern tongues of India and Europe well be for 2000 BC

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Indo European

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15
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Where was the garden of Eden at

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Fertile Crescent

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16
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What is the fertile crescents other name

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The cradle of civilization

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17
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Two important rivers in the Fertile Crescent

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Tigris

Euphrates

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18
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“Between the rivers”

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Mesopotamia

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19
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400 mile long Mesopotamia

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Plain of shinar

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20
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The site of the first postdulivian civilization

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Sumer

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21
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3 oldest Sumerian settlements

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Eridu

Uruk

Ur

22
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Greatest contribution to civilization

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The art of writing

23
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Earliest form of writing was

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Pictograms ideograms phonograms

24
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Syllabary

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Signs representing symbols

25
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Who successfully Brooke, the code of the trilingual uniform and scripts that had been discovered earlier on the clips of behistun in the modern Iran

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Sir Henry c rawlinson

26
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When the Sumerians reached their first high point of cultural development as a group of independent city states

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Early dynastic age

27
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History second great empire builder

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Sergeant of Akkid

28
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Semitic language written who uniform characters began to supplant Sumerian as the spoken language

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Old Akkadian period

29
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Who founded the famed third dynasty of
Ur

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Ur-nammu

30
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Who developed the worlds most ancient law code?

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Ur-nammu

31
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Refers to the way of life of a group of people

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Culture

32
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Specific division of labor, a written language, a written code of laws, unorganized form of civil government, and the development of the arts and science

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Civilization

33
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Before civilization takes place there must be a

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Mastery over food

34
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The process of transmitting, the cultural heritage of a people from one generation to the next

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Education

35
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What did the Sumerians develop?

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Formal schooling

36
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The Samarian school, which was called

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Edubba (tablet house)

37
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Most important Samarian industry in terms of commercial activity was

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Textile

38
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The Sumerians also constructed huge temple towers known as

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Ziggurats

39
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The Sumerians were the first _________
Bequeathing their knowledge to the Babylonians, Assyrians, children, and Persians

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Astronomers

40
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Sumerians divided the year into

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Lunar months

41
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The Sumerians also dabbled in the science of____________ the false belief that heavenly bodies, influence, human affairs and destiny

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Astrology

42
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Spreading of cultural traits and patterns is

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Cultural diffusion

43
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Big man

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Lugal

44
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Ruling princesses and their families, palace, administrator, and their more important priest of the temple

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Nobles

45
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Free citizens who lived in extended patriarchal families

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Commoners

46
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Three groups of people, administrators and craftsman the other temple workers, and those who worked the estates of nobility

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Clients

47
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Worked in the temples and palaces, and on the largest states

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Slaves

48
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Belief in one, God

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Monotheism

49
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The worship of nature

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Naturalist

50
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The worship of a host of deities

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PolytheistS

51
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Oldest work outside the Bible

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Epic of Gilgamesh

52
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Long poem written in a dignified form, which tells the story of a great fictitious or historical hero

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Epic

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