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15 Cards in this Set
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Based on extensive exploitation of agriculture what was the greatest age of river valley civilizations? |
The bronze age |
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Ebla |
Syrian city that established a civilization with a trading economy around 2500b.c.e. |
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Ba'al |
(Semitic for master) name given to several western semitic gods |
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Canaan |
Area of the Levant bordering the Mediterranean coast (modern lebanon and Palestine) |
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Imperialist |
Having to do with building empires |
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Alphabet |
(In Greek, "alpha beta") system of writing in which symbols represent individual consonants or vowels |
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Minoan civilization |
Bronze age civilization that developed on the island of Crete soon after 3000b.c.e. |
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Cult object |
Any object associated with the performing of religious rituals |
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Mycenaeans |
Indo-European people who settled in Greece and established the first Greek civilization around 1600b.c.e. |
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Sea peoples |
Large group of Indo-European peoples who attacked eastern Mediterranean lands shortly after 1200b.c.e. |
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Troy |
City of Northwestern Anatolia destroyer by the Mycenaeans shortly after 1200b.c.e. |
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Homer |
Blind Greek poet of about 800b.c.e. who's Iliad and Odyssey told of the Trojan war and it's aftermath |
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Ramses III (ruled from 1182-1151b.c.e.) |
Egyptian pharaoh who defeated the Sea people's around 1180b.c.e. |
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Dorians |
Indo-Europeans who began to settle in southern Greece about 1150b.c.e. |
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Ionia |
Western coastal region of Anatolia, the cite of Greek colonies founded by the Mycenaeans |
