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bedouins?

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part of a predominatly desert. nomadic tibes

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Jihad

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holy war

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Mecca

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Muhammads home

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Gabariel

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the angel that send Muhammad the dream to create the new religion

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Tours, France

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the battle that stopped the spread of Islam to northern europe

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Moors

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spanish muslims

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plebians

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the common (middle class) people. (Romans)

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koran

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islamic bible

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submission

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acknowledgement of ones power

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hebrews

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jews. started in babylon by Abraham

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patricians

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the rich (upper class) people (Romans)

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Kaaba

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box in mecca, must walk around it and resite prayers

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pyramids

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built by pharoahs to be baurial tombs

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Ramses

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built lots of buildings in Egypt, Pharoah

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Pax Romana

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a time of Roman Peace, 200 yrs

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Cuneiform

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writing in Mesopitamia on stone tablets

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Lydians

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known for coin money

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Hammurabi

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“eye for an eye” code of 282 laws

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Chaldeans

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responsable for conquing lands and people. leader- nebchadnezzar

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Phoenecians

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travelers, trade. ‘carriers of civilations’

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Monothesism

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believe in one God

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Fertile Cresent

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land between the rivers

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Zoroastianism

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avoid all bad deeds/evil

allowed religious freedom

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khyber pass

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one way into inda, made by Airans, passage through hidu kush mts

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oracle bones

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animal bone or turtle shell, connect with ancestors

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athens

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curtual trade center

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pericles

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built partheanon

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socrates

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started philosophy,logic

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Herodotous

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first historian for persian wars

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silk road

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trade road that connected china to the rest of the world

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democracy

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people vote on the leaders

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sparta

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war-like people (greek)

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Egyptians

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pyrimids, built on Nile

Large Civilization

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veda

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hindu bible

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Han

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finished the Great Wall in China

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Kshatriyas

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warriors

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outcaste

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“untouchables”, bottom of the socal class/caste system. deal with dead animals and make sure the people had restrooms

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shang

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first dynesty in china

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loess

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yellow silt (soil) gave yellow river its color

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torah

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jewish bible

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brahmans

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top of caste system

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Dravidians

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the first native indians (india)

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Himalayas

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natural barrier (india)

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Aryans

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central asia, khyber pass, extreme warriors

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Hannible

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carthans, had elephants (punic wars)

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Panchatantra

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5 books written by Arabahata

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Etruscans

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early romans, north Itly (large)

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Latins

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early romans, Roman (small)

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Gaius Gracchus

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make milatry better, free things for them (tribune)

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Octavian

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part of 2nd triumvirate.adopted son Julius Ceasar (aka Augustus)

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Senate

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300 people (democarcy). handled all money and foreign affairs

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Pontius Pilate

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Jesus was sent to him to be killed

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Constantine

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finally announces he is a christian, roam empiror

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Roman Catholic Church

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west. pope is in church

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Tribunes

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like lawyers

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Medina

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Muhammad had to leave Mecca so he went to medina, place where islam became popular

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desciples

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followers of a religion

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Aryabhata

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first great mathmatics

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Dracos Laws

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code of laws for Athens

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Euclid

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‘father of Geomatry’

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Knossos

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Greek city, Minoans

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Archimedes

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greatest mathmatician (inventor)

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Persia

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faught for greece, lost against sparta and Athens

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Jerusalem

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jewish city (home of christanity)

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Baghdad

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Abbasid Dynesty headquarters

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Anarchy

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absence of government

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Plato

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Socrates student. built academy to teach young people

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Darius

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divided empire into provences, *lost vs. greeks in persian wars

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Macedonia

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alexander the great conquared. north of greece

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Damascus

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home to the Ummayad Dynasty (islam)

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