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Megaliths

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Giant Stone Structures

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Astronomy

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Study of Stars

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Aboriginal people

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From the origin

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Didgeridoo

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An instrument

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Corrobree

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Gathering of Aboriginal people for dance and culture

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Dreamtime

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Magical Time and Dimension

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Songlines

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Maps in the form of a song

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Pictographs

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Rock Paintings

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Malta

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Island Country with Megaliths

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Stonehenge

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Stone structure in England

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Skarabrae

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In Scotland, World’s first village

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Uluru

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Central Rock in Australia

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How long has Australia supposedly been inhabited?

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50,000 years

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Give the Middle East 3 different Names

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Cradle of Civilizations
Fertile Crescent
Mesopotamia

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Sumer

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The first large-scale civilization

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Where was Sumer?

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In modern-day Iraq

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Two rivers that irrigated Mesopotamia

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Tigris and Euphrates

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Fertile Crescent

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Birthplace of large civilizations

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Mesopotamia

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Land b/w 2 rivers

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Ur

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First city of Sumer

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Social Stratification

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Divided into ranks

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Ziggurats

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Large pyramid temples – polytheistic

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Cuneiform

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The writing system/alphabet invented by the Sumerians
World’s first literature

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How many (traditionally) walled cities of Sumer are there?

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12

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City-State

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City that is its own country

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Levels of Unity of Human Society

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Individuals
Families
Tribes
City-states
Alliances of City-States
Empires

27
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Name 3 Modern-Day City-States

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Vatican City
Monaco
Singapore

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Who was the first conquerer

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Sargon of Akkad

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Confederation

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An alliance with no central government

30
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The Epic of Gilgamesh

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The first known written Literature (The first novel)

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Who was Gilgamesh

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The earliest historically named individual in history

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Joseph Campbell

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Believed all stories in the world are based on the same pattern (The Hero’s Journey)

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Monomyth

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The Hero’s Journey

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Archetype

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Big Stamp, the influential hero who represents the culture

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What was Sumer in the levels of unity of human society?

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An alliance of city-states

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