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GenEd Test 1- Hines
Mesopotamia, Indus Valley, Egypt, and Chinese Eras
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History
Undergraduate 2
02/14/2011

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Zhou Dynasty set of principles
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Mandate of Heaven
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A chinese belief that emperors ruled through a mandate or approval of heaven contingent on their ability to look after welfare of the population
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Mandate of Heaven
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Mandate of Heaven- what
Definition

The ruler had to maintain high standards

-If failed had to pass it on

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Mandate of Heaven-what
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The Shang dynast passed it on to the Zou
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Mandate of Heaven-where
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Shang & Zhou dynasty
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Mandate of Heaven
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This was important because it helped keep the rulers from doing something outside high standards
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Zhou
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They were tough people who battled Shang forces & eventually won recognition as kings of western regions
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Zhou
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Decentrailized Administration
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Zhou
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Foundation of Chinese though formed during this period: Cunfucianism, Daoism, and Zhou classics
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Zhou thought
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Confucianism, Daoism, and Zhou classics
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Zhou Dynasty
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Succeeded the Shang dynasty
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Zhou Dynasty
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1122 BCE-256 BCE
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Zhou Dynasty 
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The importance was how the increase in technology set standards for coming dynasties
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Oracle Bones
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Chinese fortune tellers (Diviners)
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Oracle Bones
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Process of how they asked questions
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Oracle Bones
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Questions usually asked in the curiousness of the Royal family
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Oracle Bones
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1766-1122 BCE
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Oracle Bones
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Chinese Shang Dynasty, Northern China
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Oracle Bones
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Importance was that they offered an early glimpse into tradition of Chinese writing
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Phonecians
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A narrow coastal plain north of Palestine between the Mediterranean sea & the Lebanon Mountains
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Phonecians
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prosperous based on sea trade & commercial networks
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Phonecians
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Had an alphabet script
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Phonecians
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Had city-states
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Phonecians
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were ship-builders
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Phonecians
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Were inhabitants of ancient Phonica
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Brahman
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Authors believed:

-Souls born into physical body not once but multiple times

-Appeared as humans, but sometimes as animals, or even a plant or vegetable

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Brahman
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India
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Brahman
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800 BCE-400 BCE
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Brahman
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-They taught that each person participates in a larger cosmic order & forms a small part of a universal soul
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Brahman
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An external, unchanging permanent foundation for all things that exist--hence the only genuine reality
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Brahman
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Upanishads
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Harappa 
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Lack of written records because scholars have so far been unable to understand the complex pictographic Harappan Script
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Harappa
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South Asia
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Harappa 
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3000 BCE- 1900 BCE
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Harappa
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Earliest remains remain below the existing water table & thus are inaccessible to archaeologists 
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Harappa
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"The gift of the Indus" because it made an agricultural society possible
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Harappa
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Considerably wealthy
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Harappa 
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Wall surrounded the city meant that it had political authority
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Harappa
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Dravidian peoples built the Harappan society
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Cuniform
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Its importance made it possible for the emergence of a distinctive cultural tradition
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Cuniform
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It was invented to keep track of commercial transactions & tax collections
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Cuniform
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It was a way to communicate abstract ideas
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Sumerian 
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The Importance was that they started the formation of government due to population growth
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Epic of Gilgamesh
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It explored themes in friendship, relations between human beings, the God's, and especially the meaning of life and death
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Sargon
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The importance was that his deeds, recorded in legends and histories as well as his works in propaganda inspired many later conquerors to follow in his example
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Hammurabi
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These laws established set a common standards that lent some degree of culture unity to the far-flung Babylonian Empire
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Hammurabi
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He provided his empire with the most extensive code of law
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Akhenaten
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This faith represented one of the world's earliest expressions on Monotheism 
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Monotheism
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The belief that a single god rules over all creation
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Hittities
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Little information survives because they traveled so much everything was left behind
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Hammurabi
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Proclaimed God chose him "to protect the welfare of the people"
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Epic of Gilgamesh
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he was a hero in an Epic

-he was a warrior in conflict with the city of Kush -He was a legendary loyal friend to Enkinu

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Epic of Gilgamesh
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A written literature about the two men's adventures; the worlds oldest complete epic literary masterpiece
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Cuniform
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Conventional signs represented specific words and had spread throughout Mesopotamia
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Cuniform
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First experienced with pictographs representing animals, agricultural products, and trade items that figured prominently in tax and commercial transactions
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Cuniform
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First written script in the world
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Cuniform
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Stylus fashioned form of a reed to press symbols on wet class

-Stylus left lines and wedged-shaped marks when dried

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Sumerian
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 built worlds first cities 
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Sumerians
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cities were centered by political & military authority
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Sumerians
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Invented the wheel (3500 BCE)
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Wheel invention
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3500 BCE
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Sumerian
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Experience with maritime transportation
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Sargon
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Organized a coup against the King
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Sargon
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Recruited an army
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Sargon
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Went on offensive against the Sumerian city-states
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Sargon
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Taxed and took over trade route

-because of this it started to form the capital of Akadd and transformed it into one of the wealthiest most powerful cities in the world

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Hammurabi
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He improved Sargon's administrative techiniques
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Hammurabi
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Had a centralized bureaucratic rule 
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Hammurabi
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Had regular taxation rather that supression and plunder
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Hammurabi
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Spread costs evenly
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Hammurabi
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Made a special law code 

the stated you were innocent until proven guilty

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Akenaten
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He considered Aten to be the world's "Sole God like whom there is no other"
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Hyskos
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Seized the Nile Delta and helped bring an end to the Egyptian middle kingdom
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Hyksos
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Egyptian leaders eventually pushed them out and founded the New Kingdom
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Hyksos
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"Foreign Rulers"

-They were horse riding nomads 

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Hyksos
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Foreign people to Egypt 

 

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Hittites
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They founded the New Kingdom
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New Kingdom
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1550-1070 BCE
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Hittites
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built a powerful empire in Anatolia
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Hittites
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Dominated power in Southwest Asia for several centuries after toppling the Babylonian empire
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Epic of Gilgamesh
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Uruk, Mesopotamia
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Where was the cuniform invented?
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Mesopotamia
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Sumerian
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Southern Mesopotamia
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Sargon
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Of Akkad
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Hammurabi
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took of Akkad
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Akhenaten
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Egypt
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Hittites
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Modern Day Turkey

(Southwest Asia)

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Cuniform
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Invented Middle Fourth Millennium BCE
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Epic of gilgamesh
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Completed after 200 BCE
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Epic of Gilgamesh
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Popular around 3000 BCE
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Sumerian
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Era of Dominance

3200-2350 BCE

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Sargon
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Began his career as a minister to the king of Kish
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Sargon
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2370-2315 BCE
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Hammurabi
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1792-1750 BCE
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Akenaten
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Reigned 1353-1335 BCE
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Hittites
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In 1595 BCE they finally crumbled the Babylonian Empire from their assults
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The New Kingdom
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Founded 1550-1070 BCE
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Epic of Gilgamesh
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A story about two men

:Gilgamesh and Enkindu

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Epic of Gilgamesh
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A legendary kind of Mesopotamia city-state Uruk
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Sumerians
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Invented earliest cuniform
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Sumerian
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Semantic peoples

-nomadic herders

-Came to Mesopotamia from deserts all over

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Sargon
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A talented administrator and brilliant warrior
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Hammurabi
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Sargon's successor
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Hammurabi
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Styled himself as "king of the four quarters of the world"
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Akhenaten
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Aten's champion Pharaoh
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Akhenaten
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Changed his name in honor of the preferred diety
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Hyksos
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Foreign people to Egypt

(Typically semantic peoples)

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Hittites
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People who invaded the Babylonian Empire

-Horse riding nomads

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