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- 1man's special characteristicslanguage and thought, awareness of the difference of right and wrong, freedom to make choices
- 2the belief that man was not created by god but instead evolved from animalsevolution
- 3putting man in place of or above Godhumanism
- 4the death punishmentcapitol punishment
- 5Noah's three sonsShem, Ham, and Japheth
- 6a descendant of Noah's son Ham that emerged as the leader of the "group"Nimrod
- 7the way of life of a group of peopleculture
- 8God sent the flood to:cleanse the land of sin
- 9a large group of people that act in history as onenation
- 10Genesis means ________beginning, origin
- 11Adam means _______man
- 12Eve means ________mother of all
- 13bragged openly about killing a man and a boyLamech
- 14the scattering of people over the earthdispersion
- 15the father of the nation of IsraelAbraham
- 16Tigris means"arrow"
- 17Euphrates means"that makes fruitful"
- 18"land between the rivers"Mesopotamia
- 19conquered the Sumerians and adopted the Sumerians cultureSargon the Great
- 20first people in world history to use the wheelSumerians
- 21the first people after the Flood to have used writingSumerians
- 22wedge-shaped writingcuneiform
- 23used to write on tabletsstylus
- 24king of urUr-nammu
- 25spokesman for false godsking of ur
- 26the king used religion to:get stuff he wanted
- 27thet king that conquered all of Mesopatamia in just 31 yearsHammurabi
- 28the god that gave Hammurabi the right to give lawsShamash
- 29rules people follow while living togetherlaws
- 30making laws knownpromulgation
- 31an organized group of people appointed by a ruler to help him governbureaucracy
- 32the number of years the patriarchs lived in canaan230 years
- 33chief god/ god of BabylonMarduk
- 34the patriarchs of IsraelAbraham, Isaac, and Jacob
- 35a nation or a people living in its own land with its own governmentnation-state
- 36greek historian that discovered the ruins of EgyptHerodotus
- 37the strange writing of the ancient Egyptianshieroglyphics
- 38worked for 14 years until he had solved the riddle of the Rosetta StoneJean Francis Champollion
- 39the longest river in the worldNile River
- 40the study of the relics and ruins of ancient culturesarchaeology
- 41on of the most fertile areas in the worlddelta
- 42rapids in the south that prevented the Nile from being used to invade Egyptcataracts
- 43united the two kingdoms and become the first pharaoh of all EgyptMenes
- 44the city Menes used as his capitolMemphis
- 45families within which the right to be king passed from one member to anotherdynasty
- 46the earliest tombs that the pharaohs built for themselvesmastabas
- 47the three most famous pyramids were built in _________Giza
- 48the largest pyramidthe Great Pyramid
- 49the Great Pyramid was built for ________Pharaoh Khufu
- 50the second largest pyramid was built for_______Pharaoh Khafre
- 51the mysterious structure that guards Pharaoh Khafre's tombthe Great Sphynx
- 52the third pyramid at Giza was built for ______Pharaoh Menkaure
- 53small templesmortuary temples
- 54the only female pharaohHatshepsut
- 55under __________ the Egyptian Empire reached its greatest extentThutmose III
- 56the small divisions of Upper and Lower Egyptgnomes
- 57the Pharaoh's chief assistantvisier
- 58kept the written record of Egyptscribes
- 59the kingdom that ended with a civil warthe Old Kingdom
- 60the kingdom that ended with a foreign invasionthe Middle Kingdom
- 61the foreign invaders that were the ending of the Middle KingdomHyskos
- 62the secret weapon that the Hyskos had that Egypt started to usechariots
- 63the Biblical name for SumerShinar
- 64the leaders of Israel during its first 300 years in CanaanJudges
- 65the reason Israel wanted a human kingthey wanted to be like other nations
- 66the king God chose to be king after SaulDavid
- 67the king that led Israel to the peak of its greatness as a nation-stateKing David
- 68David's sonSolomon
- 69the hope for Israel and all mankindthe writing of the Bible
- 70the number of judges (not including Samuel)13
- 71God used the ________ to punish IsraelAssyrians
- 72the Assyrian king that deported the ten tribes of the Northern Kingdom of IsraelShalmaneser V
- 73the last great Assyrian king that collected a library of about 100,000 cuneiform clay tabletsAshurbanipal
- 74the Assyrian king that boasted that the God of Judah could do no better that the gods of the peoples he had already conqueredSennacherib
- 75the three armies that conquered the AssyriansChaldeans, Scythians, and Medes
- 76the king that formed an alliance with the Medes and the ScythiansKing Nabopolassar
- 77the Chaldean EmpireSecond of New Babylonian Empire
- 78the king that destroyed Jerusalem and carried the inhabitants of Judah awayNEBUCHADNEZAR
- 79the drive to build a world empire began during the 700s B.C. under ____________Tiglath-pilesar III
- 80city-statepolis
- 81a hilltop fortress and a seat pf government and religionacropolis
- 82market placeagora
- 83the first recorded date in Greek history776 B.C