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| The first caliph; Muhammad's father-in-law; initiated policy of military conquest |
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| Muslim physician known for his work/research on smallpox |
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| Helped lead the Tartars to a crushing defeat of the Russians; his realm became known as the Golden Horde |
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| "Universal ruler" of Mongolia; one of the greatest conquerors in all of history |
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| Muslim physician known for his work/research Tuberculosis |
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| First emperor of Japan; claimed to be a descendant of the sun goddess |
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| One of the most famous Byzantine emperors; crushed the Nika rebolt; his chief objective: restoring the greatness of the Roman Empire |
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| Conquored southern China; contemporary of Marco Polo |
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| Famous ruler of Mali; made a pilgrimage to Mecca with a massive entourage; his capital city was Tumbuktu |
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| Muslim poet who developed the Rubaiyat and wrote the poem popularly known as the Arabian Nights |
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| Varangian warrior who gained control of Novorgod in AD 862 (The date that marks the beginning of Russian history) |
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| He gegan a new round of Mongol invasions that captured Baghdad and Damascus |
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| Created the first strong empire of India which would eventually included all byt India's southern tip |
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| "The Wise"; Kiev would reach its zenith of power/prestige under him, attempting to rival Constantinople |
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| Allah is their god; Muhammad is their prophet |
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| Uses icons; led by patriarch who exercises authority over his own national church |
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| Founded by Siddhartha Gautama; uses the principle of The Four Noble Truths |
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| Central to this teaching is the belief in harmony within five basic human relationships |
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| Beleive in reincarnation; Brahman is their god |
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| Worship of anything in nature found awe-inspiring; sung goddess reigned supreme |
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| "The Way"; the pervading force in nature |
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| How much longer did the Roman empire endure in the East following its collaps in the West? |
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| What city became the capital of the "New Rome"? |
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| The wife of what Byzantine emperor wtood behind her man and helped convince him to stay and fight a violent uprising? |
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| Military expeditions sent to the Middle East to defend against the violent spread of Islam were known as what? |
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| What people group finally defeated the Byzantine Empire in 1453? |
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| The largest people group to settle early Russia were who? |
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| Arabs trace their lineage back to Abrahams son? |
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| Bedouins were a people that roamed and dwelled where? |
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| The sacred Meccan shrine that houses hundreds of pagan idols is known as what? |
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| Muslim artists excelled at the writing from known as what? |
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| Muslim houses of worship are known as what? |
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| Which man was known as the Indian Shakespeare? |
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| Which of the following civilizations was beleived to be the center of the earth? |
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| Chinese civilization arose in the Valleys of their own two major river systems which are? |
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| Hwang Ho and Indus Rivers |
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| In Japan, a group of families descending from a common ancestor and serving as the basic unit of social, religous, and political organization? |
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| T/F India has a diverse topography |
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| T/F The Chinese placed such an emphasis on family that they even worshipped their ancestors |
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| T/F The philosophy of Confucius is contained in a collection of his sayings and activities called the Upanishads |
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| T/F A lack of political unity marked India's early history |
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| T/F Shih Huang Ti's terra cotta army was produced in molds that remitted the ceramic army in exact duplicate |
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| A man having more than one wife |
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| This continent include the Sahara Desert and totals 20% of the earths land surface |
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| 20-30 feet high 15 feet wide; built to keep out invaders |
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| Type of printing system that the Chinese developed and which the West later emulated |
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| Approximately how many characters are in the Chinese language |
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| Russian ruler that established Orthodox Christianity as the state religion for all the wrong reasons |
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| These church leaders are not Popes, but they exercise authority over this own national churches |
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| Finest exsample of Byzantine architecture is a church called... |
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| The year that the Roman Empire colapsed in the West |
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| List the 5 basic relationships found in Confusious's teachings |
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Father & Son
Elder & Younger brother
Friend & Friend
Husband & Wife
Rulers & Subjects |
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Brahman
Warriors
Merchants & Traders
Sudras
Untouchables |
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| List Buddahs four noble truths |
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Suffering is part of all existence
suffering has one cause (selfish desires)
Selfish desires can be overcome
One mush follow the eightfold path |
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| List the 5 pillars of Islam |
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Shahadah
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| Discovered the principle of the lever |
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| Tutored Alexander the Great; developed the syllogism |
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| Leader of Athens that devised a naval troop that defeated the Persian forces led by Xerxes at the battle of Salamis Bay |
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| Macedonian king who united Macedonia under his rule and extended his kingdom into Greece |
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| History of the Peloponnesian war |
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| Extended the Greek empire into Persia Syria |
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| Greek "Father of Medicine" |
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| Greek philosopher who extablished a school of philosophy and science in Athens called the academy |
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| Philosopher and mathematician who came up with a geometric theorem and the idea that the universe could be explained in mathematical terms |
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| A Greek philosopher who believed that truth could be obtained through human reason |
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| Astronomer and geographer who determined the circumfrence of the globe with amaxing accuracy |
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| "Father of History"; wrote the Perian wars with an obvious bias twoard the Greeks |
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| Poet who wrote Metamorphoses, a collection of myths of the ancient world |
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| Provided the turning point of the second Punic war by defeating the Carthaginian army at the Battle of Zamia |
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| Most famous Greek writer in the Roman Empire; compared the lives of important Greek and Roman men |
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| Famous Roman senator who ended all his speeches with "but I declare that Cartage must be destroyed" |
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| Tutor of Nero; Leading stoic |
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| Leading poet of the Augustan age following Virgil's death |
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| Greek astronomer and mathematician that promoted the geocentric theory of the universe |
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| Mathematician who invented and directed the strance war machinery that defeated the Romans at Syracuse |
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| Pessimistic poet who wrote bitter satires on the loose morals and social problems of the empire |
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| Recognized natural law; outstanding lawyer, author, statesman, and the greatest orator of his day |
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| Handed Roma a devestating defeat at the Battle of Cannas during the Second Punic War; known for war elephants |
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| Roman emperor during when Jesus Christ was crucified |
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| Roman historian who wrote a lengthy history of Rome in 142 volumes |
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| Roman governor of Judea during the time of Jesus Christ |
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| Julius Caesar's friend and right hand man |
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| After 300 years of Roman persecution, he made Christianity loyal trough the Edict of Milan |
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| Divided the Roman Empire into four large administrative divisions called prefectures |
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| He crossed the Ribicon River on his journey twords Rome |
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| First official Roman persecutor of Christianity began with him |
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| Julius Caesar's nephew and only male relative |
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| Last of the so-called "good emperors" |
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| Best remembered by the name Augustus; first Roman to be called an emperor |
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| Left no plan for a successor |
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| Used Chrsitians as human torches to light his parties |
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| Assasinated in the senate chamber on the Ideas of March |
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| Conducted the last and most violent widespread Roman persecution |
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| Who was the Greek "King of all gods and man"? |
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| According to Greek lore, which Greek god ruled over the sea and earthquakes? |
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| The most important and powerful body of the Roman republic? |
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| The section of the city that was the Center of Roman government? |
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| A victory whose lusts outweighed any advantage that may have been gained is known as a... |
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| Who sought reform in the Roman Republic, but failed as the empire slipped closer to a dictatorship? |
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| The first Roman civil war pitted what two Roman leaders against eachother? |
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| The second Roman civil war pitted what two Roman leaders against eachother? |
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| Pompey Vs. Caesar Crassus |
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| The third Roman civil war pitted what two Roman leaders against eachother? |
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| Mark Anthony Vs. Octavian |
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| A roman title of diversity that was eventually applied to Roman emperors |
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| What belief teaches that the highest good is the pursuit of the virture of courage, dignity, duty, similarity of life, and service to fellow men |
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| Who is recognised as the first Christian martyr? |
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| Which body affined Christ deity and the doctrine of the trinity |
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| Where did Chrsitians bury their dead during the time of Roman persecution? |
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| T/F The Minoans and Mycenaean cutlures included in the early Greek world |
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| T/F The Greeks usually built their cities at the foot of a hill |
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| T/F The Athenians trained boys as young as seven for the military |
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| T/F The Spartans would leave an unhealthy baby out on a hillside to die |
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| T/F The Greek fought against each other at the Battle of Thermoplyae |
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| T/F Sparta was the leading Greek city of the Delien League |
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| T/F Sparta was likened to a whale from their efforts in the Peloponnesian War |
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| T/F Athens had the purest form of democracy with every adult male citizen gaining the privilege end opportunity to vote and hold office |
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| T/F The Caoseum was sometimes flooded to reenact famous naval battles |
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| T/F The inscription placed on Jesus' cross was written in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin |
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| T/F During the republic most Roman men let their hari grow and used a curling iron |
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| T/F The council of Plebians passed revolutions called Participants |
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| T/F One of the most important factors in Rome's conquest and control of vast areas of lands their systems of nocks |
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| What's the Greek games with a four-year interval |
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| Who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey? |
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| In Greek Culture, what was the name of the goddess of wisdom |
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| Then study of human thoughts and evildoer is nown as? |
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| The most spectacular temple in Athens |
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| The distance in miles of how far Alexander marched his men over an eight year period |
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| Name the Greek city-state at the head of of the Hanes League |
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| "Beware of Greeks bearing gifts" refers to which fabled Greek Structure |
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| Who was the winner of Xerxes beauty contest to find himself a wife? |
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| The sole authority over the family in early Roman society |
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| The upper/aristocratic class in Roman society |
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| A form of government where voting citizens control the power of government through elected officials under the law |
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| The law of ____ _______ became the foundation of Roman civil law |
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| The Punic wars were a series of wars between Rome and... |
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| Egyptian Queen who fell in love with Mark Antony |
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| Mount Vesuvius destroyed this city in AD 79 |
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| What did a thumbs down mean? |
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| Engaged in brutal life and death struggles for the publican's plesure |
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| The most famous exsample of Roman architectural generous shaped like a football stadium |
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| Sent as a sacrifice to redeem man from his fallen condition |
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| Perhaps no person has exceeded the impact of his work for Christ; led several missionary journeys to plant churches withing the Roman empire and along the Mediterranean |
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| Who was the French translator of the Rosetta Stone? |
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| Who served as the first king of Isreal? |
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| Who united upper and lower Egypt? |
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| Who destroyed Samaria sand took captive the tribes of Isreal? |
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| Young Ehyptian Pharaoh; rediscovered in 1922 |
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| Also known as Cheops; Built the Great Pyramid at Giza |
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| First great women ruler of Egypt? |
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| Established first known empire |
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| Led Isreal's conquest of the land of Cannan |
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| Led the Persians against the Greeeks at the battle of Thermopylae |
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| Persian king who was one of the greatest conquerers who ever lived |
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| Led Istaelites out of Egyptian bondage |
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| God promised to multiply his seed |
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| Who had his own code of laws? |
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| Who had a lowe code that distributed justice based on one's social class |
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| Man's fall following creation happened where? |
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| The crossroads of civilization |
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| Originators of the alphabet |
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| Farming and irrigation marked their livelihood |
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| First civilizatoin to excel in production of iron |
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| The language Christe spoke originated from |
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| The city of Ninevah was the captiol of this empire |
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| Form of writing known as hierolyhics comes from which nation |
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| Nebuchadnezzar ruled what people group? |
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