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Western Civilization
Mesopotamia and Egypt
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History
Undergraduate 1
09/12/2010

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The "female pharaoh" who ruled Egypt in the 18th Dynasty
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Hetshepsut
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Assyrian King who lost a large army to a plague during the reign of Hezekiah
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Sennacherib
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Sumerians foretold the future by looking at this part of a sacrificed animal
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Liver
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About when did the Neolithic Period begin in the Fertile Crescent?
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7,000 to 8,000 BC
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The famous Akkadian king who conquered the Sumerians in ca. 2350 BC
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Sargon II
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The Egyptian Pharaoh whose gold-filled tomb was found by Howard Carter in 1922
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King Tut
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About when were the Great pyramids built?
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2600 BC
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The People who invented the first true alphabet
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Phoenecians/canaanites
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Most important king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire
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Nebuchadnezzer
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The people who caused the end of the Hittite Empire in 1200 BC
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Sea Peoples/Philistines
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The peole of the ancient city of Carthage
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Canaanites/Phoenecians
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The peole of the ancient city of Carthage
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Canaanites/Phoenecians
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the pharaoh of the Exodus according to the EARLY date
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Amenhotep the II
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The Pharaoh of the Exodus according to the LATE date
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Ramses II
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According to the law Cod of Hammurabi, the adulterous women were to be executed in what way?
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Tie them up and throw them in the sea
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The Canaanites of the Old Testament were called this by the Ancient Greeks
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Phoenecians
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About when was Zoroaster born?
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650 BC
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The Capital city of the Assyrian Empire
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Nineveh
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Satraps
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Persian sub-kings or governers
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The Egyptian king who first united Upper and Lower Egypt into one nation in ca. 3100 BC and who also founded the First Dynasty in Egypt
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Menes
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Capital city of the Hittite Empire
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Hattusas
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Kingdom of Urartu was know as this in the Old Testament
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Ararat
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The Indo-Aryan rulers of the Kingdom of Mitanni worshipped sever deities whichw ere also woshippeed by these Indo-Aryan people
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India
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The Babylonian king who left his son Belshazzar to rule for him
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Nabonidas
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A Stela or stele
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basically a tombstone
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The Assyrian king who carried the Ten Northern Tribes of Israel into captivity
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Sargon II
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The ancient Babylonian flood story is found in:
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The epic of Gilgamesh
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Harrapa and Mohenjo-Daro
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Capital cities of the Indus Civilization
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Ziggurats
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tower temples
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the Jewish king who is shown paying tribute to the Assyrian King shalmaneser II on the Black Obelisk
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Jehu
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The first ancient people to mint coins
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Lydians
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The style of writing invented by the Egyptians is today called:
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Heiroglyphics
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What did Assyrian KIng Ashurbanipal do with the corpses of the babylonians?
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Fed them to animals
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The pharaoh who supposedly tried to establish a form of "monotheism" in Egypt
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Akhenaten
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The Persian King who captured the city of Babylon in 539 BC
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Cyrus the Great
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The people who first invented writing
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Sumerians
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Where the kings of Egypt were usually buried in the Old Kingdom
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Pyramids
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The international language of both the Babylonian and Persian Empires
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Aramaic
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IN "Hammurabi's law Code" the largest number of laws deal with this
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family life
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The Persian king who in 538 BC allowed the Jews to return to Israel
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Cyrus the Great
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the Hebrew leader who left his home in Ur in Mesopotamia to migrate to Palestine
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Abraham
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The largesr group of people in the Kingdom of Mitanni
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Hurrians
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What the Ancient chaldeans are better know as today
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Babylonians
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The Persian King who added Egypt to the Persian Empire
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Cambyses
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Apis
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Egyptian sacred bow
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Osiris
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Egyptian god of the dead
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Cartouche
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Egyptian oval shaped inscription of King's name
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Isis
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Egyptian god: wife of Osiris, mother of Horus
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thoth
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Egyptian god of scribes and wisdom
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Horus
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Amen-re
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Ankh
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Egyptian Cross with circle
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Aton
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Worshipped by Akenatan
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Maat
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Egyptian goddess of justice
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Anubis
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Egyptian god of mummification that looks like a Jackal
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Marduk
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king of gods for Babylonians
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Zend Avesta
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persian holy book
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Book of the Dead
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Egyptian Holy Book
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Ishtar
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Babylonian goddess of fertility
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Baal Hadad
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Canaanite storm god
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Yahweh
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Hebrew God
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Siva or Shiva
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Hindu god worshipped by the Mitanni
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Asherah
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canaanite god: wife of El
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Rig Veda
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Hindu holy book
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Ahura Mazda
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good god of Zoroastrianism
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