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Midrerms Flashcards

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What are three tools to study history that we discussed in this class

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Geography
Map
Archeology

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What is one type of document historians used to help them study the past

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Primary sources

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Which country is in the same place today as ancient Mesopotamia

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Turkey Syria Iraq

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List two major accomplishments of ancient Egyptians.

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Medicine and art

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Want are the plagues of Egypt

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Death turn the sea into blood hail

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How dos the Assyrian rulers that conquered people

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The Assyrians would kill conquered people

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How did Persian rulers treat conquered people

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The Persians would let them be apart of thier empire

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The llypics were originally started in

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776bc

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9
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Philosophy means

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Love of wisdoms

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Alexander the Great was taught by

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Aristotle

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Which leader lost against chadrsguptamaria

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Seleculas

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Why were the llypics canceled

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The emperor though it would suppress peaganism

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Describe the status of women in Egypt

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Woman could marry divorce and sell land

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Why did Sumerian city states build ziggurats

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To keep the gods and godesses happy

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Hammurabi code was designed to

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Guarantee equality

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When did Egypttians build the great pyramids

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Old kingdom

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What new war technology did the hyskos bring to Egypt

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Horse drawn chariots

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After the bloody war of Kalinga what did Asoka do

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Converted to Buddhism

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Asoka had roads built throughout his empire for what purpose

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Ease of travel and communication

20
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What was the name of the Buddhist that follow old traditions

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Theravada

21
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What does Pax Romana mean

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Peace of Rome

22
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What was ceased name before he changed it

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Octavian

23
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What is one modern country that was under Roman influence

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Greece

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Why iChat is one specific example of Pax Romana

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Entertainment

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Which event more than anyother signified the beginning of the dark ages

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The collapse of the Roman Empire

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