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LUCY

Donald Johansson discovered this bipedal hominid

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Hunter Gatherers

Egalitarian, Small groups, Nomadic, No Social Classes, Cave Paintings, Fertility figurines

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Agricultural Revolution

Marked by invention of irrigation and domestication of animals

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River Valley Locations

Tigris, Nile, Huang He, Indus

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Retaliation Code of Law

Hammurabi of Babylon

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Compensation Code of Law

Nesilim of Hatti

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Hanging Gardens of Babylon

Nebuchadnezzar's Valentine

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Sargon of Akkad

World's First Emperor

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Hittites

Smallpox killed these Iron lovers

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Ziggurat

Temple in Mesopotamia

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The Lord our G-d is one.

Monotheism in the Shema

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Ashurbanipal of Assyria

Lions and Libraries

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Enheduanna, the priestess

World's first known author

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Cuneiform of Sumer

World's 1st writing

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Pharaoh Hatshepsut

Built mortuary temple for herself at Deir al Bahri

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Frenemies Egypt and Nubia

Cultural Diffusion

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Natural Barriers of Egypt

Med Sea, cataract, deserts

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Natural Barriers of India

Indian Ocean, Hindu Kush, Himalayas

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Natural barriers of China

Gobi, Takla Makan, Jungles, Himalayas, Tien Shan

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Natural barriers of Mesopotamia

Caucasus, Persian Gulf, Zagros, Caspian and Black

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Egyptian Afterlife

Happy Field of Food

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Mesopotamian Afterlife

World of Clay

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Hindu Afterlife

World of the Fathers

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Akhetaten

Worship of the Sun's disk Aten

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Seth

Horus avenged his father Osiris by killing his uncle

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Reincarnation (Samsara)

Dharma and Karma earns you a better or worse life.

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Siddhartha Gautama (The Buddha)

Seeks the Truth about Suffering and becomes Enlightened

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Four Noble Truths

All of life is suffering, the cause of suffering is desire, the cure is to overcome desires, to do that follow the 8 Fold Path

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Ganesha

The elephant headed son of Shiva and Shakti

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Patriarchy

Rama's magic circle around Sita, his wife.

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Dowry Deaths/Bride Burnings

Tragic by-product of Patriarchy in India

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Hindu Trimurti

Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva

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Qin Shi Huangdi

1st Emperor of China who built roads, a bureaucracy and a Wall

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Yu

1st leader of Xia Dynasty who labored tirelessly to tame the River of Sorrows

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Fu Hao

Real life Shang Warrior Queen

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Fa Mulan

Legendary Chinese Warrior woman

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Legalism

Chinese philosophy of Han Feizi rooted in harshly enforcing the Law.

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Daoism

"Do nothing and all things will be accomplished" - Lao Tzu

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Ban Zhao

Admonitions for Women advised her daughters to be submissive

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Right Relationships

Confucian teaching telling a little sister to obey her big sister.

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Homer

Wrote the Iliad and Odyssey

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Darius of Persia

Achaemenid Emperor who attempted to conquer Greece

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Sparta

Enslaved the local people and trained for war from age 6 to 60

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Eris

Brought Golden Apple to a wedding to create DISCORD

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Achilles

Greatest of all the Greek heroes in Trojan War. Undone by his weak ankles.

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Medea

Play about Jason's vengeful "wife".

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Oedipus Rex

Play detailing fate's effects on a man's life.

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Herodotus

Famed Greek known as "Father of History"

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Oracle at Delphi

Greek headquarters of divination where all prophecies were revealed in riddle.

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Hellenized

Alexander the Great "greekified" the world he conquered.

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Khadija

Beloved wife of Mohammed and 1st convert to Islam

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Quran

Sacred text of Islam along with the Sunnahs and Hadith

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Analects

Sacred text of Confucianism

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Vedas

Sacred text of Hinduism

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Tripitaka (three baskets)

Sacred text of Buddhism

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Dao de Jing (Way of Virtue)

Sacred text of Daoism

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Hegira (hijra)

Flight of Muhammad and beginning of Islam

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Pillars of Islam

Shahadah, Prayer, Fasting, Almsgiving and Pilgrimage (hajj)

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Abu Bakr

Successor to Muhammad and 1st Caliph

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Ishmael

Son of Abraham and Hagar, founder of Mecca and builder of Ka'aba

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Minoan

greek civilization; had minotaur; started by zeus and europa (phoenician)

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To submit to G-d

Islam and Muslim means

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People of the Book

Abrahamic religions: Muslims, Christians and Jews - are all...

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Halley's Comet

Omen in the Bayeux Tapestry

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Bubonic Plague

Black Death caused by fleas on rats

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Magna Carta

King John relinquished his royal power when he signed this charter in 1215

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William the Conqueror

Duke of Normandy who invaded England in 1066

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Vikings

Northmen who raided and plundered Europe, Russia and the Mediterranean starting in 793

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Octavian Augustus

1st Roman Emperor who built roads and aqueducts.

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Wool

Textile produced in northern Europe from sheep

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Silk

Textile produced in China from worms

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Cotton

The "fabric of life" produced in the Indus River Valley

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Guilds

Business associations in medieval towns

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White elephant

Because Buddha's mother dreamt of this animal she knew he was destined to become a holy man

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YUAN

Mongol dynasty in China run by Kublai Khan

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Marco Polo

Prince of Lies who claimed he saw rocks on fire, paper that was used as money, worms that made silk and colorful explosions in the sky

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Ibn Battuta

Learned Muslim legal scholar who traveled the Sand Roads

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Diplomatic Gift to Charlemagne

A "white elephant" was originally an unwanted

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Feudalism

Loyalty in exchange for land and power

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Purusha

an eternal presence in hinduism

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Chinggis Khan

Great Leader of Mongols who conquered the world in the 1200s

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Troubadour

Poets who wrote love songs

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Ka'aba

Mecca where muslims make their pilgrimage

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Indus Seal

official seal of indus river valley; depicts lettering along with a powerful animal

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Parthenon

Temple to Athena in Greece

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Terracotta Warrior

huge funeral pyre army made of terracotta clay

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Bayeux Tapestry

French tapestry depicting Harold betraying William

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Stepped Pyramid

a type of pyramid with flat top and layers; Djoser’s burial place

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Anubis

god of funerals and the dead

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Narmer Palette

makeup palette depicting narmer’s uniting of thebes and memphis

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Aqueduct

Roman system for moving water from the mountains to the city.

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Sumerian Cities

Shurrupak, Nippur, Ur and Uruk

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Sumer King (immortality)

Gilgamesh, King of Uruk, also has Epic

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Sumerian inventions

Cuneiform, Wheel, and calendar

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Sumerian Artifacts

Standard of Ur, Royal Game, Puabi Headdress

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Akkadian King

Sargon, First Emperor of Akkad

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Akkad famous for

military juggernaut and first author

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Akkad artifacts

first hymns and Sargon's golden head

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Amorite City

Babylon

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Amorites King

Hammurabi

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