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- author "me"
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- The cave in southern France, discovered in 1994 and that contains three hundred paintings of animals, is known as the
- the Chavet cave
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The physical environment of the Mesopotamians generally led to
a pessimistic outlook with an emphasis on satisfying their angry gods
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Egypt's Middle Kingdom was portrayed by the Egyptians as
a golden age of Egyptian society
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The first modern Homo sapiens
first appeared in Africa about 250,000 years ago
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The Hittites were
an Indo- European speaking peoples and made iron weapons of war
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One of the few female pharaohs was
Hatshepsut
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The original Indo-Europeans possibly came from
the steppe region north of the Black Sea
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The most famous of the megalithic constructions of Europe is
Stonehenge.
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The ancient city of Catal Huyuk was
A neolithic walled community sustained by food surpluses
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The Hyksos
were a Semitic- speaking people who infiltrated Egypt in the century B.C
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Egyptian pharaohs ruled and derived their authority from the
principle of Ma'at.
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Name four indo-European languages.
Sanskrit, German, Latin, Greek
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The Sumerian government
came to view kings as agents of their gods.
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Mesopotamian religion was
One in which no one god reigned supreme and deities were closely related to cities
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The women in Mesopotamian society's role was generally
to be in the home and act subserviently to her husband
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The earliest human-like creatures hominids, existed in Africa as early as
3 to 4 million years ago
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The most tolerant and efficient of the Near Eastern empires was the
Persian
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Cambyses' greatest achievement as king of the Persian Empire was
bringing Egypt under Persian control
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The principal economic basis of Assyrian society was
agriculture based on farming villages
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The Phoenicians' contributions to the ancient Near East included
the establishment of trading stations throughout the Mediterranean, the founding of the colony of Carthage, a simplified alphabet and system of writing, and producing purple dye, glass, wine and lumber as articles of trade.
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Scholars agree that between ____ and____ B.C., the Israelites emerged as a distinct group of peoples who established a united kingdom known as Israel
1200 and 1000
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All of the following helped make Assyria an efficient military machine
iron weapons, activities of terror, superior diversified tactics, ruthless leaders.
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The central, sacred text of Zoroastrianism
Zend Avesta.
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After a long period of vassalage, the Assyrians achieved their independence in the
1300s
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The sun god, who became a helper of Ahuramazda and later, in Roman times, the source of another religion was
Mithra.
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Assyrian kings organized their empire more effectively by
were middlemen in the international trade of the era
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The polis was the Greek name for
city-state.
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What are some descriptions of Athenian leaders
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Themistocles-developed a navy, Cleisthenes-created the ten tribes and Council of 500, Solon-sole archon and political reformer, Cleon-leader of the war party in the Peloponnesian War
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