Test: Genesis

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Historians of China have traditionally dated the beginning of Chinese civilization to the

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Founding of the Xia Dynasty about which little is known

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Music and storytelling were

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Used to pass along a community’s history in the absence of written language

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Hopewell

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People of the Ohio river valley

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Mississippians

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Main city was Cahokia

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Mayans

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Society of mathematicians who created a hyper-accurate calendar

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Cuzco

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Capital of the Incan empire

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Aztec

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Established the capital of Tenochtitlan

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Farming in ancient Mesopotamia resulted in an abundance of food, which

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Enabled civilization to emerge

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In ancient African civilizations, a special class of _______ believed they had the power to fortell events, usually by working with supernatural forces and spirits of ancestors.

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Diviners

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The history of Egypt begins around 3100 B.C., when

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Menes United upper and lower Egypt

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Axum owed much of its prosperity to

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It’s location along the Red Sea

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Machu Picchu was

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A city built by the Inca, demonstrating their use of terraces

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The Han Emperor, Wu-Ti, discarded

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Legalism and adopted Confucianism

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Ancestors were the key element in the African religion because

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The ancestors were believed to be closer to the gods

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Polytheistic

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Believing in many gods

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Abundance in food

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Enabled the emergence of civilization

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The Code of Hammurabi

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A collection of 282 laws

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The pyramids

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Built in the time of the Old Kingdom

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City-states

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Basic units of Sumerian Civilization

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Sumerians

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Creators of the first Mesopotamian civilization

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Cuneiform

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‘Wedge-shaped’ writing

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Babylonians

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Ruled by Hammurabi

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Empire

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Large political unit or state, that controls many peoples or territories

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Quipu

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‘Knotted’ writing

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The Aztec capital, ________, was built on an island in the middle of Lake Texcoco.

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Teotihuacan

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India’s _________ was created by the Aryans

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Caste system

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Sanskrit

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Aryan’s first writing system

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Reincarnation

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Belief that the soul is reborn after death

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Brahmin

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Ultimate reality in Hinduism

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Legalism

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Proposed that human beings were evil by nature

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Confucianism

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Centered on the five relationships

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Modern historians have divided ancient Egyptian history into three major periods, known as

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The old kingdom, the Middle Kingdom, the new kingdom

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Which is NOT a similarity between Egypt and Mesopotamia?

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Used hieroglyphics as written language

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Yoga

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Meditative process essential to Hinduism

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Han Dynasty

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Era of Chinese resurgence of education and art

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Dharma

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Duty of each level of the Indian caste system

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Karma

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Force generated by a person’s actions that determines how the person will be reborn in the next life

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Tao

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The ‘way’

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The _________ lived in the Southwest, in present day New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, and Colorado.

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Anasazi

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The Hopewell peoples were especially known for

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The earth mounds they built