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Why were empires conquered?

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For their recourses

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What does an industrial society need? And if you don’t have them what do you do?

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Fuel water and metals. If you don’t have them you conquer a territory that has them, trade for it, buy it, or steal it.

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Why were empires built?

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To market goods and for natural recourses

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What are artisans

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Skilled craft workers such as carpenters blacksmiths cobblers painters plumbers and electricians

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What are pictographs?

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A drawing that represents an idea

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We’re ancient kingdoms of the Nile monotheistic or polytheistic?

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Polytheistic

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What is cultural diffusion

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Taking someone’s ideas and changing them to fit your needs

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Who developed a form of writing called cuneiform?

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Sumerians

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Who is Hammurabi?

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King who ruler Mesopotamia. Known as the rule giver.

Gave us a code of behavior

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Why were the Jews enslaved by the Egyptians?

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Because they were monotheistic

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11
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Who were the Jews led out of slavery by?

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Moses

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Where were the 10 commandment established?

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Mt. Sini

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What is a diaspora?

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Scattering of people

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14
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Other names for Jews and Arabs

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Israelites and Palestinians

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Castes

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Social groups into which people are born into and can not leave

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Animism

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(Anim=life) belief in life

Belief or worship of living things

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Mystics

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People who devoted their to seeking spiritual truth

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Dynasty

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A family who has ruler for many years

19
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Who are the 3 original American civilizations

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Incans Mayans and Aztecs

20
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What is a state

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An independent country

21
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Who is the founder of Hinduism? What is the scared text?

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No founder and no scared text

22
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What to Hindus believe?

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That everything is part of the in hanging and all powerful force called the Brahman

23
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Who are the 3 most important gods

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Brahma
Vishnu
Shiva

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Reincarnation

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Rebirth of the soul in another bodily form

25
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Who was the founder of Buddhism

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Siddhartha Gautama

26
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What does Buddha mean?

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Enlightened one

27
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What are the pillars of life

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Beliefs of Indian life

28
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What is a republic

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Government in which officials are chosen by the people

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Who are patricians?

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Most powerful people in government or land owning upper class

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