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S.S Test 10\25\22 Flashcards

1
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An arc shaped area that went from the mediterranean sea to the Persian gulf

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Fertile Crecent

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A greek word that means “ land between two rivers” the two rivers were the tigris and the Euphrates

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Mesopotamia

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2
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To bring water to the fields during the dry months

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Irrigate

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3
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Self governed cities that also govern the surrounding villages

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City States

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4
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Exchanged goods without using money

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Barter

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5
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The belief in multiple gods

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Polytheisim

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A temple of worship that the sumerians and babylonians used, they were pyramid brick towers

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Ziggurats

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A system of writing that uses triangular shaped symbols to stand for words, ideas and sounds

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Cunieform

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A complex society that has cities, a well organized govt and specialized workers

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Civilization

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9
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Pictures on wet clay tablets that represent nouns

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Pictographs

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10
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Pictures on wet clay tablets that represent verbs

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Ideographs

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11
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What are the 4 city states

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Ur, Urk, Kish, and Eridu

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12
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goddess of love and war

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Ishtar

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13
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god of water

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Enki

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14
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Great mother goddess

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Ninhursag

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15
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Moon god

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Nanna

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16
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god of the sun and the son of nanna

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Utu

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17
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The king of the city state Kish

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Sargon

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18
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A state containing several countries or territories

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Empire

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19
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An independent state that works with other states to achieve a military goal

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Ally

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20
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An idea or way of doing smth in a certain culture

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Cultural Trait

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21
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A set of laws that governed the Babylonian empire

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Hammurabi’s code

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22
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The idea that all members of a society must obey the law

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Rule of law

23
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One of the babylonian gods

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Marduk

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Soldiers that fight on horse back

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Cavalry

25
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A payment to show loyalty to a stronger power

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Tribute

26
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Money that is used as a medium of exchange usually bills or gold coins

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Currency

27
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A carved slab or pillar that stands on an end

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Stele

28
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An assyrian leader that made the city of Nineveh his capital

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Ashurbanipal

29
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The capital of assyria

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Nineveh

30
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The ‘one true god” that zoroaster showed the persians

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Ahura Mazda

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Goods that are sold within a country but made in another

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Import

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Goods that are made within a country but sold in another

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Exports

33
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The action of steering a ship from place to place

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Navigate

34
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An area fulled by a distant country

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Colony

35
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The spread of one culture trait from one religion to another

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Cultural diffusion

36
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persian leader that helped in the war

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Cyrus the Great

37
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A set of all the letters ever made

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Alphebet

38
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Mountains that formed the eastern boarder of the phoenician empire

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Lebanon Mts

39
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The belief in the one true God

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Monotheism

40
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The ideas of right and wrong

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Ethnics

41
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The first five books of the hebrew bible

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Torah

42
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An agreement with God

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Covenant

43
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The escape of the Israelites from slavery

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Exodus

44
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An order to do something

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Commandment

45
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A person believed to be chosen by God as a messenger to bring truth to people

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Prophet

46
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Religious teachers, oral laws that are believed to come from the teachings of Moses

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Rabbi

47
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A text finished around 600 CE that is a collection of royal teachings and commandments about the hebrew bible

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Talamud

48
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A jewish weekly day of rest

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Sabbath

49
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Separation from ones homeland

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Exiles

50
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The communities outside of the land of israel

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Diaspora

51
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A jewish meeting place

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Synagogues

52
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The city state that Abraham and Sarah moved to

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Cannoah

53
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Saved the Israelites from slavery and got the ten commandments off of MT Sinai is believed to be a prophet

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Moses

54
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Where God gave Moses the ten commandments

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Mt. Siani

55
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First five books of the bible

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Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, numbers and Deuteronomy

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