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World History Vocab 1
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History
9th Grade
09/14/2008

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Herodotus
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Ancient Greek historian.
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Menes
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King of Egypt 3100 B.C who united upper and lower egypt.
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Ptah-hotep
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A wize vizier who took an intest in training young officials.
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Hyksos
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Invaded egypt about 1700 BC and occupied the delta.
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Queen Hapshepsut
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Daughter of one pharoah widow of another.She began ruling in the name of a male heir who was too young to take the throne.
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Ramses II
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Wone fame for military victories.
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Isis
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Wife of osiris
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Osiris
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God of the dead, god of nile, ruler of the underworld.
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Set
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Wicked brother of osiris, cut osiris into pieces.
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Amon-Re
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Sun god
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Horus
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Son of osiris and isis ; took revenge on set
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Tutankhamen
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Died when he was 18 and was placed in a solid gold coffin nested with richly decorated outer coffins.
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Akhenoton
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young pharoah, challenged the powerful priestes of Amon-Re, Devoted his life to worshiping Aton.
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Aton
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Minor god whose symbol was the sun disk.
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Howard Carter
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Found King tut.
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Queen Nerfretiti
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Wife of Akhenoton
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Jean Champallion
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A french scholar who revealed the meanings of the writings on egypts monuments.
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Inanna
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Goddes who fell in love with Gilgamesh and propsed marrige.
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Ko-Babba
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A woman who became the ruler after rising from the lowly position as tavern owner.
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Sargon
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Ruler of Ahled, invaded and conqured city state of sumer.
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hammurabi
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King of babylon, published a remarkable set of laws.
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Assurbanipal
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Assyrian who built the first librabries.
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Nebuchandezzer
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Aggresive and ruthless king who revived the power of babylon.
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Cyrus the Great
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Persian emporer in 539BC
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Darius
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Persian emporer, skilled organizer who set model organizer.
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Zoroaster
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Persian thinker 600BC, rejected old persian gods and tought Ahura Mazda ruled the world.
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Moses
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Adopted son of the pharoah's daughter who led the hebrews in their excape from egypt
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David
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Humble shepard who defeated a huge palestine warrior named goliath.
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Debroah
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Judge won honor and respect.
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flax
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a plant whose fiber were used for clothing
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fertile Crescent
Definition
Arc of land that curves from the the persian gulf to the mediteranian coast
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Torah
Definition
sacred text of the Jews - Genisis Exodus Leuticicus Numbers Deuteronomy
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Ten commandments
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laws the jews believe God gave them through moses.
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Rosseta Stone
Definition
flat Black stone that has the same message in Demotic hyroglyphics and Greek
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Tale of Sinue
Definition
Popular egyptian folktale.
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