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26 Cards in this Set
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Abraham of Ur
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Led Hebrew people out of Ur to Fertile Crescent(Canaan) - Made covenant with God- his people would become a great nation
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David
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King of Hebrews 1000 bce
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Solomon
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Son of David - divided Israel state into Isreal & Judah - Built grand temple for the Arc of the Covenant
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Marduk
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Mesopotamia - Babylonian Creation- chief god of Ancient Babylon - destroys Tiamat
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Tiamat
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Mesopotamia - Babylonian Creation - Great mother - spawns serpents & monster to make war on the Gods
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Achilles
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Greek Hero in the Homer's Illiad - part mortal part god
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Patroclus
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Friend & tutor of Achilles
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Hector
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Leader of the Trojan forces
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Priam
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King of Troy - father of Hector & Paris - in Illiad
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Homer
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Blind poet that supposedly wrote Illiad and Odysses
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Paris
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Prince of Troy - Brother of Hector - starts Trojan war by abducting Helen
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Menelaus
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King of Sparta - husband of Helen
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Helen
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wife of Menelaus - abduction starts Trojan wars
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Agememnon
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King that led the Greeks to Troy - Brother of Menelaus
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Odysseus
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Leader of the Greeks - hero in the Trojan war - Odysses written about him
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Oedipus
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King of Thebes
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Antigone
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Daughter of Oedipus - in the Antigone
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Ismene
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Sister of Antigone - daughter of Oedipus
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Polynices
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Brother of Antigone - son of Oedipus
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Eteocles
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Brother of Antigone - son of Oedipus
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Creon
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King of Thebes - after Oedipus - Protagonist in Antigone
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Haemon
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Son of Creon - lover of Antigone
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Eurydice
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Wife of Creon - kills herself in Antigone
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Teiresias
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Blind prophet - advisor to Creon
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Akhanaten
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Pharoah of Egypt - Changed Egypt to Monotheism - wife was Neffertiti
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Sophocles
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Tragic Playwrite in Greece - wrote Antigone
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