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Human-made objects such as tools and jewelry

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artifacts

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people who study fossils

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paleontologists

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archeologits who discovered prehistoric footprints in Laetoli, Tanzania

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mary Leakey

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discovered footprints were called, ramond dart

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Australopithecines

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Australopithicines are called?

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Hominids

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man of skill

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homo habilis

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upright man

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homo erectus

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wise men

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homo sapiens

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first to discover fire

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homo erectus

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10
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discovered adult female hominid

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Lucy

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The name Lucy was derived from the word

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Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds

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Neanderthals were discovred in ?

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neander valley, Germany

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first hominids to migrate or move from Africa

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Homo Erectus

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14
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neolithic revolution is called as

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agricultural revolution

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what is domestication?

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taking care of animals as a livelihood

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jarmo

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agricultural settlement

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Catal Huyuk

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agricultural village, also known as FORKED MOUND

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What is civilization?

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the process by which a society or place reaches an advanced stage of social and cultural development and organization.

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were the birthplaces of first civilization?

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cities

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the development of skills in a specific kind of work

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specialization

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21
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a long lasting pattern of organization in a community

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institution

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professional record keepers

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sumerian scribes

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cuneiform?

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also known as wedge shaped, also first known writing system

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stylus

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scribes used them to write

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one of the earliest cities in Sumer

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ur

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Called as mountain of God

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Ziggurat

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a crescent-shaped region in Western Asia.

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fertile crescent

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mesopotamia

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land between two rivers

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two great rivers

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tigris and euphrates

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30
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sumerian city states

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uruk, kish, lagash, umma and ur

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refers to the process by which individuals or groups from one culture come to adopt the customs and behaviors of another culture, often to the extent that they lose their original cultural identity.

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assimilation

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32
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involves the exchange of cultural features between different cultural groups. It can be a two-way process where both cultures involved influence each other, leading to changes in each.

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acculturation

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is the process by which cultural elements are spread from one group or society to another.

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cultural diffusion

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34
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created the worlds first empire

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sargon

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35
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code of hammurabi

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consists of 282 specific law

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36
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the egypt was divded into

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upper and lower

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37
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the king who united the division in egypt

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narmer

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38
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marshy, triangular area land formed by deposits of silts at the mouth of the river

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delta

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39
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narmer palette

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unison of two crowns

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40
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capital of egypt

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memphis

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41
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type of government that was based on religion

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theocracy

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42
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mesopotamia

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kings were representatives of gods

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43
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egypt

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kings or pharaoh are gods

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44
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the most important god in egypt, sun god

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RE

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45
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God of death

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osiris

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47
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god

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48
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of

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49
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ideal mother and wife

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isis

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50
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god and guide of the underworld

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anubis

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51
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pharaoh

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kings in egypt

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52
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life force

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ka

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53
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writings in egypt

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hieroglyphics

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54
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hieros and glyph means

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sacred carving

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55
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invaders that invades egypt

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hyksos

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56
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the rulers of foreign land

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hyksos

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57
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indian subcontinent

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india, bangladesh and pakistan

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58
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great rivers in indus civilization

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indus and ganges

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59
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indus valley civilization is also called as

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Harappan civilization

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60
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remarkable contributions of the harappan civilization is?

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city planning

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61
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mohenjo-daro

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known for its plumbing and sewage system

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62
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why he indian civilization declined?

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caused by the shift of tectonic plates

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63
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what isolated china from others?

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natural barriers like the himalayas mountain range

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64
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china’s seas

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yellow sea
east china sea
pacific ocean

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65
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great rivers in china

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Huang He or yellow river
Yangtze

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66
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yellowish silts

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loess

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67
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first dynasty

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xia

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68
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first dynasty to leave written records

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shang

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69
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china’s heartland

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northchina plain

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70
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central to chinese society

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famliy

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71
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shang kings consulted the gods through ?

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oracle of bones

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72
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who overthrew the shang ?

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zhou

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73
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approval needed by the china kings

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mandate of heaven

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74
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the pattern of rise , decline and replacement of dyanasties is lnown as

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dynastic cycle

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75
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nobles and lords are granted of lands by the king

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feudalism

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76
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english, spanish, persian and hindi

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came from indo-european language

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an obsolete historical race concept that emerged in the late-19th century to describe people of Proto-Indo-European heritage as a racial grouping

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aryans

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78
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indo european who invade anatloia

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hittites

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79
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anatolia

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asia minor or turkey

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80
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caste system

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social hierarchy

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81
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oldest text of hinduism

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vedas

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82
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the most important part of vedas

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rig veda, consists of 1028 hymns

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83
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enemy of aryans

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dasas

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84
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greatest epic in india

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mahabharata

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85
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are the documents that contain the central teachings of Hinduism, SITTING NEAR A TEACHER

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upanishads

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86
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state of perfect understnading in Hinduism

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Moksha

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87
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individual soul of a living being

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atman

88
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world soul

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brahman

89
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the creator

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brahma

90
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the protector

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vishnu

91
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the destroyer

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shiva

92
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founded the buddhism

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siddharta gautama

93
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founder of jainism

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mahavira

94
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how many days of meditation?

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49

95
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like a staircase in buddhism

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eightfold path

96
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what are the 8 fold path

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Right View, Right Resolve, Right Speech, Right Action, Right Livelihood, Right Effort, Right Mindfulness, and Right Concentration.

97
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release from pain and selfishness

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nirvana

98
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buddhist religious order

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sangha

99
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buddhist teachings

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dharma

100
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powerful seafaring people

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minoans

101
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large island on the southern edge of the aegean sea

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crete

102
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minoan capital city

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knossos

103
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phoenicia

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lebanon

104
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after crete’s decline is?

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phoenicians

105
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the phoenician system

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phoenitic

106
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alphabeth

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aleph and beth

107
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ancient home of hebrews

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canaan

108
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hebrew fled from Egypt

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exodus

109
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sacred books of hebrew

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torah

110
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woman leader in hebrew

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deborah

111
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hebrews became

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jews and their religion judaism

112
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3 able kings

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Saul, David, Solomon

113
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the new kingdom of jews

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israel

114
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most powerful hebrew king

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sOLOMON

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A
116
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israel was divided into two

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israel in north and judah in south

117
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establish the hanging gardens

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nebuchadnezzar

118
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assyrian conqured the israel , babylonians conqured the Assyrians and persian defeated the BABYLONIAN

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yes

119
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asiatic invaders

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hyksos

120
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Queen Ahhotep
Kamose
Hatshepsut
Thutmose III
Ramses II

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121
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ancient kingdom rival of egypt

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nubian kinggdom of kush

122
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great house

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PHARAOH

123
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overthrew the libyan dynasty

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piankhi

124
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the heartland of the Kingdom of Kush, a major power in the ancient world from the 8th century BCE to the 4th century CE. Meroe became the principal residence of the rulers, and from the 3rd century BCE onwards it was the site of most royal burials.

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meroe

125
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contributed to meroe’s fall

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aksum

126
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came from the northern part of mesopotamia

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assyria

127
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who burned babylon and establish the assyria capital?

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king sennacherib

128
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assyria’s capital

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nineveh

129
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great literary piece of sumerian

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epic gilgamesh

130
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one of the last mighty assyrian kings

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Ashurbanipal

131
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burned and leveled nineveh

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Medes and Chaldeans

132
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persian kings

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Cyrus
cambyses
darius
xerxes

133
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darius installed a governor called

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satraps

134
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an ancient highway reorganized and rebuilt by the Persian king Darius the Great (Darius I) of the first (Achaemenid) Persian Empire in the 5th century BC.

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royal road

135
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Zoroastrianism

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founded by Zoroaster, their god is Ahura Mazda, parsis

136
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religious sytem that competed the christianity

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Manichaeism

137
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greatest chinese teacher

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confucius, ANALECTS

138
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Filial piety

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one of the teachings of confucius

139
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disciple of confucius

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Mencius

140
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a system of government in which most of the important decisions are made by state officials rather than by elected representatives

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bureaucracy

141
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founder of Daoism

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Laozi

142
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I ching and yin and yang

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vital books or belief

143
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founder of legalism

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Han Feizi and Li Si

144
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anti confucius

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legalist

145
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relpaced the zhou dynasty

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Qin dynasty

146
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Ruler whose name is the first emperor and establihed the great wall of china

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Shi HUangdi

147
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government that has unlimited power

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autocracy

148
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greatwall of china was built on the QIN DYNASTY

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The total length of all sections of the Great Wall of China ever built adds up to about 21,196 kilometers (13,171 miles), including overlapping sections that were rebuilt. The wall constructed during the Ming dynasty, the most well-preserved section, is about 8,850 kilometers (5,499 miles) long.

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MINOANS, MYCENEANS AND DORIANS

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150
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proved that tojan war is legit

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Heinrich Schliemann

151
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hesiod

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theogony

152
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city state

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polis

153
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marketplace

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agora

154
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fortified hilltop

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acropolis

155
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first step to democracy?

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draco developed a legal code that poor or rich athenian are equal under law

156
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organized citizens into ten groups based on where they lived rather than wealth

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Cleisthenes

157
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created the council of 500

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Cleisthenes

158
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outlawed debt slavery

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solon

159
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peasants

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helots

160
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greek soldiers

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hoplites

161
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fearsome formation

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phalanx

162
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battle of marathon

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greece vs persia

163
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alliance of several city states

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Delian League

164
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young marathoner who spread the good news “ REJOICE, WE CONQUER”

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Phedippides, ran 26 miles

165
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great athenian leader

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Themistocles

166
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led athens to golden age, wise and able statesman

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Pericles

167
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temple buit for goddessa athena

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parthenon

168
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sprta-stronger army, athens-stronger navy

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169
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battle betwwen sparta nad athens

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peloponnesian war

170
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lovers of wisdom

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philosphers

171
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socrates
plato
aristotle
alexander

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king philip II (23)

172
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athenian orator

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Demosthenes

173
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unchallenged ruler of southwest asia

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alexander

174
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alexander died because of serious illness that eventually got a fever then died at 32 years old

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Antigonus
Ptolemy
Seleucus

175
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blending of culture, egyptian , persian and indian

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Hellenic

176
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estimated that the sun was the center of the solar system

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Aristarchus

177
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popular spoken language used in hellenistic cities

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Koine

178
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director of aleandrain library, tried to measure the curcumference of earth, FATHER OF GEOGRAPHY

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Eratosthenes

179
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fatjer of geomaetry

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Euclid,465, ELEMENTS

180
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accurately estimated the value of pi

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Archimedes of Syracause

181
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founded the school of stoicism

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zeno

182
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Epicureanism, pleasure

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Epicuruus

183
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largest hellenistic statue

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colossus of rhodes

184
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the heart of roman political life

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forum

185
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last king of rome

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tarquin the proud

186
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res publica

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public affairs

187
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patricians and plebians

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rome

188
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consuls

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the chairmen of the Senate, which served as a board of advisers. They also commanded the Roman army (both had two legions) and exercised the highest juridical power in the Roman empire.

189
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legions, century

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military group in roman

190
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foot soldiers

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infantry

191
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rome vs carthage

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punic wars

192
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hannibal vs scipio

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193
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first triumvirat

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julius caesar, pompey and crassus

194
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2nd triumvirate

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octavian, mark antony, lepidus

195
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octavian became augustus

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exalted one

196
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gaul

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france

197
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who killed julius caesar

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marcus brutus and gaiu cassius

198
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roman peace

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pax romana

199
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rome’s ablest emperor

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augustus

200
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pontius p pilate

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201
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disperal of the jews

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diaspora

202
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permannt religious tolerance aginst christianity in the roman empire

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edict of milan

203
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marked the end of pax romana

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death of emperor Marcus Aurelius

204
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foreign soldiers who fought for money

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mercenaries

205
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attila the hun

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He was one of the greatest of the barbarian rulers who assailed the Roman Empire, invading the southern Balkan provinces and Greece and then Gaul and Italy

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last roman emperor in roman republic

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Romulus augustulus, 14 yrs old

207
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byzantine empire

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rome

208
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mixing ofb greek ,hellenestic and roman

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greco-roman

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mother of language

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latin

210
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greatest fits of roman engineering

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colosseum

211
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Maurya empire

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FOUNDED BY cHANDRAGUPTA mAURYA

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INDIA’S SECOND EMPIRE

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gUPTA EMPIE , , LED BY chandra gupta

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took the title of great king of kings

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chandra gupta I

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who discovered lucy

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dunald johanson

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WORLD HISTORY (2 decks)

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