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World History Flashcards

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Polis

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Greek city-states

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Athens and Sparta

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Two traditional enemy city states

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Hatshepsut

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The famous female pharaoh

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Legacy a of Ancient Greek

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Philosophy, astronomy, architecture, democracy

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5
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Aristocracy

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A form of government ruled by the wealthy elite

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Democracy

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Form of government run by the people

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Women in Athens

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Taking care of their children and family,

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Delian leagues

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The alliance between the Greek city states

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Monarchy

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Government run by a king

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Oligarchy

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Government run by a small group of people

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Voting in Athens

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Make land owners

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12
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Pericles

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Was a famous statesmen or politician

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13
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Two Greek genres of Greek plays

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Tragedy and comedy

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14
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Most famous Greek philosophers

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Aristotle Plato and Socrates

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Peloponnesian war

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Sparta won

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16
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Parthenon in the Acropolis

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Dedicated to Athena

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17
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Alexander the Great was a student of

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Aristotle

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18
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Alexander’s empire

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Extended from Macedonia to India

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19
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Hellenistic culture

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Greek, Egyptian, Indian, Persian

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20
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A story about the gods that the Greeks wrote

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Mythology

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21
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The academy

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The name for the cool that Plato founded

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22
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How did

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Poisonous hemlock

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23
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The languages that derived from Latin

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Romance languages

Italian Spanish French Portuguese

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24
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How did the people of Pompeii die

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A volcanic eruption

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Julius Cesar

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Held the title of dictator of the time of assassination by the Spanish

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26
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Alaska land bridge

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Scholars believe the first people to arrive in America came from

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27
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Maya cities

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Well known for their stone temples and palaces

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Maya people

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Did not own things it was owned by pachacuti in a upanchi

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What did the clan mother do

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Removed members from the council

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Incas kept record of history with

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Kepu knots

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All roads in the inca empire lead to

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The capital cusco

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Maize

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The most important crop of the survival of early Americans

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Inflation

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The fast increase of prices

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Diocletian

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Divided the Roman empi into two parts

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Constantinople

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The city that Constantine made

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How did the incas carry messages to each other

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Relay runners

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Maya writing system is

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Hieroglyphics

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Israelites reaching cannan

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40 years

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Genesis

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First book of the Hebrew Bible

40
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Covenant with God

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On agreement

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Nirvana

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In Buddhism the release of selfishness

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Epic

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Narrative poem that celebrates heroic deeds

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Sinatra gauhama

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Made Hinduism

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River civilization of China

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Between the yellow river and the yengzi river

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Monsoons

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Seasonal winds

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Papyrus

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Closest thing to paper

Comes from a plant

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Mummification

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Take out all organs except heart and embalmed body humans and pets

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Pharaoh

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God like King

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Nile

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River that crosses Egypt

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Sumerian writing

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Writing system is cuneiform

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Polytheism

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Believe in more than one God

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Ziggurat

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Massive monument and temple

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Prehistory

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Before writing

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Barter economy

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The trading of goods and services without money

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Artisan

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Skilled worker

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Domestication

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Came animals and plants

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Lucy

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One of the first hominid discovered in Africa

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Homo habilis

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Hominids that use tools

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Hominids

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Humans and other creatures that walk upright

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Artifacts

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Human made objects

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Buddhism and Hinduism

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Believe in sacredness of all life

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Buddhism

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Goals to reach nirvana

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HItties

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Excellent war years because they discovered iron

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Harappa

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In India had a plumbing system scholars cannot decipher for their language

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Hammurabi’s code

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282 written laws

66
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Cuneiform

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Formal writing

67
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Mesopotamia

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Between two rivers Tigris and Euphrates

68
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Neolithic Revolution

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Agricultural revolution

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