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- the original historian
- used his own accounts of events and situations
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- born around 484 BC |
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| When was the Paleolithic Era? |
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| What was the Paleolithisc Era? |
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| Nomadic hunter-gatherers roam Africa, Europe, Asia, Middle East |
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| What was the Paleolithisc Era? |
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| Nomadic hunter-gatherers roam Africa, Europe, Asia, Middle East |
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| When did farming villages spread around Mediterranean and Persian Gulf? |
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| Who rulesd Upper and Lower Egypt circa 3100 BCE? |
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| When was the height of the Sumerian civilization? |
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| Who was the King of Uruk? |
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| What was the time span of the Old Kingdom of Egypt? |
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| Time Period of Middle Kingdom of Egypt? |
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| Who extends the boundaries of the kingdom of Babylonia? |
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| When did Hammurabi extend the Babylonian boundaries? |
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| time period of Indus Valley civilization in India |
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| WHat replaced Hyksos in Egypt? |
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| When did pharoahs take ober in Egypt? |
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| Who conquered the Babylonians under Cyrus II? |
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| When did the Persians conquer the Babylonians? |
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| Who captures the Egyptians c 525? |
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| Who invades Persian Empire; takes Egypt, founds Alexandria; conquers Mesopotamia? and what time period? |
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| Alexander the Great in 334-331 |
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| When does the Egyptian Ptolemaic Era begin? |
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| Who conquers the Hittite Empire? |
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| When did the ASssyrians conquer the Hittites? |
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| What kingdom did the Jews in Palestine create? |
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the study of the history and methodology of the discipline of history
-the changing interpretations of those events in the works of individual historians |
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| a record or narrative description of past events |
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| a non-specific way to refer to the artifacts or other concrete things left by past cultures |
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| a person who studies the material culture of a past society |
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| the recording, preservation and interpretation of historical information, based on the personal experiences and opinions of the speaker |
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| document, speech, or other sort of evidence written, created or otherwise produced during the time under study |
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| a document or recording that relates or discusses information originally presented elsewhere |
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| Who was the first true historian? |
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| name the four kinds of historical materials from which historians write and conclude |
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1. oral history
2. material culture
3. primary sources
4. secondary sources |
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| Who was the Father of Menes? |
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| measurable incremental change of physical characteristics of a local population due to the environment |
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| an original model of a person, ideal example, or a prototype upon which others are copied, patterned, or emulated |
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| What was the archetype of Noah's ark? |
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| Where have Some of the earliest Neolithic settlements in the Middle East been found? |
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| When did the Hittites rule Asia Minor? |
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| What region did the Hittites rule before the Bronze Age? |
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| Who destroyed the Hittite Empire of Asia Minor? |
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| What are was passed back and forth between Greek and Persian rule? |
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| When did King Croesus reign? |
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| Who established Macedonian rule in Asia Minor? |
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| WHat year did Alexander the Great launch his expedition to the east? |
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| Who died 10 years after the beginning of his conquests? |
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| What are was completely controlled by Alexander the Great? |
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| a confederation of states in western Anatolia |
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| Who did the HIttites defeat under Tudhaliya I? |
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| to oppose the HIttite empire |
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| When was Assuwa defeated? |
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| What period came between the Stone Age and the Iron Age? |
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Early Dynastic Periods of Sumer
Akkadian Empire
Old Babylonian
Old Assyrian
Kassite hegemony |
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| WHat is the alloy made of tin and copper? |
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| birthplace of the Bronze Age |
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| Why was th e Bronze Age important? |
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| allowed us to create more durable tools and artifacts for productive use |
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| stone, copper, bronze, iron |
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| another name for Copper Age |
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| a wild-man raised by animals and ignorant of human society until he is bedded by Shamhat |
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| Who becomes Gilgamesh's companion? |
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| the hero of The Epic of Gilgamesh was an actual historical figure, a king who reigned over the Sumerian city-state of Uruk around 2700 b.c. |
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| WHo made the first iron works? |
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| Hittite empire at its height |
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| What group was famous for using chariots in warfare? |
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| What age do the Hittites belong to? |
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| Bronze, however pioneered iron |
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| When did Sumerians develop writtern language? |
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| When were the first heorpglyphs in Egypt? |
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| When were the pyramids constructed? |
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| Where was the Epic of Gilgamesh written? |
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| When was th eEpic of Gilgamesh written? |
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| When was the Code of Hammurabi written? |
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| When was the Phonecian alphabet created? |
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| When was the Indus Valley civilization? |
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| Where was the Indus Valley Civilization? |
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western part of Southern Asia
-comprising the whole of modern day Pakistan and parts of modern-day India and Afghanistan |
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| Who had the most sophisticated in the ancient world? |
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| Indus Valley Civilization |
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1200 - 550 B.C.E.
-also varied geographically |
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| What is combined with carbon to make steel? |
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| What metal is very soft in its natural form? |
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| the process of making stone tools (i.e. arrowheads, projectile points, hand axes, etc.) |
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| Why is flint knapping a reduction process? |
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| flakes of stone are broken off the of the original piece of stone |
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| New Stone Age, final stage of cultural evolution or technological development among prehistoric humans |
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| What enabled Neolithic peoples to build permanent dwellings and congregate in villages, and the release from nomadism and a hunting-gathering economy gave them the time to pursue specialized crafts? |
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| cultivation of cereal grains |
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| WHat came before the NEolithic period? |
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| stone tools shaped by polishing or grinding, dependence on domesticated plants or animals, settlement in permanent villages |
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| characteristics of the Neolithic Period |
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humans First appear, S. & E. Africa, 110,000 B.P., spread to Middle East,
Europe by 35,000 B.P., Americas by 15,000 B.P., |
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| An abundance of readily storable wild grains and pulses enabled hunter-gatherers in some areas to form the first settled villages at this time |
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| chipped stone tools, raw material is rock |
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| What is another name for the Old Stone AGe? |
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| When did agriculture began? |
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| Where did agriculture begin? |
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| Where is the Fertile Crescent of MEsopotamia? |
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| part of present day Iraq, Turkey, Syria and Jordan which was then greener |
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| the Middle East: it is the part of Asia that is closest to the Mediterranean Sea |
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| the process of determining an approximate age for an archaeological or palaeontological site or artifact |
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| a Semitic people living on the Arabic peninsula during the great flourishing period of the Sumerian city-states |
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| Who migrated north and come in conflict with Sumer? |
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| When did the Akkadins conquer Sumer? |
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| What great Akkadian military leader conquered Sumer? |
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| Where did Sargon base his empire? |
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| Akkad later became what city? |
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| Who revolted against the Akkadian empire and caused its decline? |
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| city of Ur in southern Mesopotamia |
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| When did the Akkadians fall? |
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| The Akkadians were part of what family language? |
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| Name the Semitic languages. |
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| Hebrew, Arabic, Assyrian, and Babylonian |
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| Where did "semite" dcome from? |
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| Shem was a son of Noah and the nations descended from Shem are the Semites |
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| What follows the unification of Lower and Upper Egypt c. 3100 BC? |
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| When did the capital moved from Abydos to Memphis with a unified Egypt ruled by an Egyptian god-king? |
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| When did the capital moved from Abydos to Memphis with a unified Egypt ruled by an Egyptian god-king? |
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| doesn't have any dates, just a list of which came first, which came second, etc. |
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| Sumerian: the city of Akkad |
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| usually refers to the Semitic speaking state that grew up around the city of Akkad north of Sumer, and reached its greatest extent under Sargon of Akkad |
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| What was the first true empire? |
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| Who was was the first ruler to unite the peoples of Southern Mesopotamia into a single political unit? |
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| an independent entity whose territory consists of a city which is not administered as part of another local government |
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- located in a mountain valley
- governed by Gabriel(resposible for genetic engineering)
- Sumerian archetype for Garden of Eden |
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| WHat is the third largest city in Egypt? |
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| What city is located on the west bank of the Nile river, some 20 km southwest of central Cairo? |
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| Where are the Great Pyramids? |
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| opposition of nature; contrariety or dissimilitude of qualities |
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| What ancient city of Sumer is now in central Iraq? |
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| What was the first city to have kings after the Deluge, the great flood? |
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| The Third Dynasty of Ur is aka? |
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| What arose soon after the fall of the Akkad Dynasty? |
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| sumerian city ruled by Gilgamesh in the 27th century BCE |
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| What Greek poem by Hesiod desribes the origins of Greek gods? |
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