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Ancient History

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What is the name given to the era that saw the domestication of plants (farming) develops across the world independently?   agricultural revolution  
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The Bronze Age was ushered in around 4,000 BCE when what two metals were combined?   copper and tin  
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Name one of the two animals that were domesticated in the Andes Mountains of South America for their meat and wool, and in one case to carry loads.   llama  
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What staple crop was the Olmec civilization responsible for breeding from wild teosinte?   maize  
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Sumerian temples were known as what?   ziggurats  
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Human prehistory is divided into what two eras?   paleolithic and neolithic  
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What fertile area named due to two rivers that it encompassed; it was home to some of the world's first cities and civilizations?   mesopotamia  
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One (if not the) earliest pieces of literature is an epic poem that follows the exploits of a legendary half-man/half god king named?   gilgamesh  
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What was the first dynasty of rulers in ancient China?   shah dynasty  
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What was the first published laws code were created by the Babylonian ruler?   hammurabi  
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The first woman to become Pharaoh was?   hatshepsut  
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The people whom had a great trade network stretched across the Mediterranean and made Purple and the Alphabet?   phoenicians  
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The middle kingdom came to an end with the Invasion of Egypt by people who used horse-drawn chariots?   hyksos  
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The writer of the epic poems The Iliad and The Odyssey was?   homer  
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Moved to other areas in the Mediterranean, some destroyed the Hittite empire   sea people  
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Egyptians recorded ideas on these   papyrus  
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What civilization on Crete was named after their king   minoans  
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The pharaoh united upper and lower kingdoms of Egypt   narmer  
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A family of rulers who's right to rule is passed within the family   dynasty  
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Pharaoh was believed to be the human form of what god   horus  
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Solder was dispatched to Athens to proclaim the victory   battle of marathon  
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How did Spartans treat infants?   kill the weak  
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Persuaded the Spartans to overthrow the Athenian tyrants   cliestiens  
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Alliance for protection against Persia, Sparta created an apposing alliance   peloponnesion league  
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Spartans enslaved the inhabitances of other places, these people were known as   helots  
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King Leonidas and his 300 Spartans held back the Persian Army at the   battle of therompyble  
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Athens created this league against Persia   delion league  
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means "rule of the people"   democracy  
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Said the material world is just shadows   plato  
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was elected Archon in 594 BCE   solon  
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