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ILPS-History/Geography 1001
ILPS Hist./Geo.--Ancient Civilizations I
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11th Grade
09/26/2012

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Term
What requires non-farmers?
Definition
civilization
Term
What is the beginning of technology, and the more it increases the more technological the country becomes?
Definition
tools
Term
Trade is a synonym for what?
Definition
commerce
Term
What is the name of the great Egyptian river?
Definition
Nile
Term
What was the name of the Egyptian woman who ruled as a man?
Definition
Hatshepsut
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What Hebrew was captured and served in Babylonia?
Definition
Daniel
Term
The Babylonians had a flood story. What was the name of that story?
Definition
Gilgamesh Epic
Term
What was papyrus used for?
Definition
Egyptian paper
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What is embalming?
Definition
A process used by the Egyptians to preserve the bodies of the dead.
Term
What is “ka?”
Definition
Egyptian belief that your miniature double lived on after your body died.
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Hammurabi, a ruler of Babylon was famous for what?
Definition
writing a code of laws
Term
What were the names of the Egyptian’s three primary gods and of what were they gods?
Definition
Ra = sun
Osiris = god of the Nile and fertility
Isis = god of nature
Term
“Nome” is another word for what?
Definition
clan
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Who was Heroditus?
Definition
a Greek historian
Term
What continent was populated by Ham’s descendants?
Definition
Africa
Term
Nimrod is associated with what great event in Biblical history?
Definition
Babel
Term
Who was the Pharaoh of the Exodus?
Definition
Amenhotep II
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Mesopotamia is also known as what?
Definition
The Cradle of Civilization
Term
Ishtar is the Assyrian goddess of what?
Definition
love and war
Term
For what were the ancient pyramids used?
Definition
tombs of the Egyptians
Term
A polytheist believes in what?
Definition
many gods
Term
What do we call it when someone believes in only one God?
Definition
monotheism
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Who were the Hyksos’s?
Definition
Foreigners who seized control of Egypt and ruled for many years.
Term
Which civilization was the first to use the concept of zero?
Definition
Babylonians
Term
Moses was once in what position in Egypt?
Definition
Moses refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter.
Term
What civilization was known for its cruelity?
Definition
Assyrians
Term
What king of Israel joined forces with neighboring countries to fight the Assyrians?
Definition
Ahab
Term
What were the names of the two men known for the code of laws they shared with their civilizations?
Definition
Hammurabi and Moses
Term
What is the other name for cradle of civilization?
Definition
Mesopotamia
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What was the name of the tower where Biblical accounts say God confounded the language?
Definition
The tower of Babel
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