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Down: 1) Suffering Suffering caused by desire Ways to end suffering is to end desire Ways to end desire is to avoid extremes of life on regular materials 3) Greek invader who provided important contacts between Indian and Hellenistic culture 4) Title of kings of ancient Egypt5) One and only god to the Hebrews 6) First king of Israelites - 8) Main reason to get married in Egypt? 10) Defeated Assyrian Conquered kingdom of Judah Completely destroyed Jerusalem Upper class people from Judah deported to Babylonia 12) The most important ruler of the Babylonian empire ​Responsible for codification of law 16) :​ Monumental architecture typical of Old Kingdom Egypt ​ Used as burial sites for pharaohs 17) Along with Mohenjo-Daro, major urban complex of the Harappan civilization18) Written by vasayana during Gupta era Of freest instruction in aspects of life for higher class males 20) First literally language of India 27) Discovered homohablis 30) Handy human, brain 50% larger, smarter, tool maker 31) Wise wise human 32) Deserts... 100 miles before empties into med sea 33) 22 upper, 20 lower in Egypt Responsible to king and vizier County 34) Farming, quantity over quality... Forced people to stop nomadic ways 35) Chief deity of the Aryan's - was a colossal, hard drinking warrior 36) God of river, wells, earth, canals 39) God of sky40) Means of obtaining subsistence by human species prior to the adaptation of sedentary agriculture ​ Normally typical of band social organization 41) Contempary to siddhartha gaurama42) North of Egypt 50) The exclusive worship of a single god ​Introduced by the Jews into Western civilization 51) Seafaring civilization located on the shores of the eastern Mediterranean ​ Established colonies throughout the Mediterranean 52) A level of social organization normally consisting of 20 to 30 people ​​Nomadic hunters and gatherers ​​Labor divded on a gender basis 53) Stone shrines built to house bone or hair and personal possessions of Buddha 54) Fostered insulation in Egypt, protected from invaders, didn't prevent trade 57) God if wind 58) Political advisor to chandragupta Maurya59) ​An African state that developed along the upper reaches of the Nile c. 1000 BCE ​Conquered Egypt and ruled it for several centuries 60) Rapids on south part of Nile 61) Buddhist state of enlightenment 62) Great Maryann ruler Gained all but southern tip of India through conquest Promoted Buddhism 65) Israelites viewed as symbolic center of religion - houses the ark of covenant 66) The sun god in Egypt 69) How hard will this exam be? Across: 2) Founder of Buddhism Found enlighten tinder bodhi tree 7) Indian epics of war, princely honor, love, and social duty 9) We're sacred pictures of Egypt Form of writing Written on papyrus 11) Before writing 13) Moses led people out of Egypt 14) A Hindu concept that was a guide in this world and at the same time pursuing spit urial goals 15) Developed mail 19) The ways in which people ally knowledge to create what they need 21) Neolithic village located in southern Turkey. It has been elaborately studied by archeologists and has produced substantial historical data on the political, economic, and cultural dynamics of the Neolithic period22) Jews: ​They were the most influential of the smaller Middle Eastern groups that gave the world the first clearly developed monotheistic religion. They settled near the Mediterranean around 1200 B.C.E. but were never able to form a strong political or military tradition. However, Jewish monotheism has sustained a distinctive Jewish culture to our own day; it would also serve as a key basis for the development of both Christianity and Islam as major world religions. 23) Massive towers usually associated with Mesopotamian temple complexes24) Brahman ps who served as teachers for the princes of the imperial court of the guptas 25) This housed monks 26) Made Jerusalem Capitol of Israel 28) Egyptian kings didn't rule alone, they had... 29) Permitted to join monastic order 37) Israel 38) Literally “between the rivers” ​ The civilizations that arose in the alluvial plain of the Tigris-Euphrates river vallyes 43) Protector of kingdom 44) were the most influential people of the Tigris-Euphrates region. By about 3500 B.C.E., the Sumerians had developed a cuneiform alphabet, the first known human writing. The Sumerians were also characterized by their development of astronomical sciences, intense religious beliefs, and tightly organized city-states. The Sumerians also improved the region’s agricultural prosperity by learning about fertilizers and adopting silver to conduct an early form of commercial exchange. eventually fell to a people called the Akkadians, who continued much of the Sumerian culture in the Tigris-Euphrates region.45) Southern ape man... Tool user 46) Which god was source of life and hence worthy of worship 47) South of Egypt 48) Boy king Returned old gods Returned government to Thebes 49) The first civilizations all sprang up alongside the banks of major rivers in order to irrigate their agricultural fields. The first river valley civilizations began in the Middle East and flourished for many centuries. They created a basic set of tools, intellectual concepts such as writing and mathematics, and political forms that would persist and spread to other parts of Europe, Asia, and Africa. Additionally, most of the river valley civilizations were in decline by 1000 B.C.E. 55) The successive attachment of the soul to some animate form according to merits earned in previous life 56) First queen of Egypt 63) A system of cultivation typical of shifting cultivators ​Forest floors cleared by fire are then planted 64) Empire provided 2 centuries of political stability Overturned by invading Huns 67) Wrote famous grammar in India 68) Made clothing from animal skin... Buried dead 70) civilization emerged in northern Africa, along the Nile River, by about 3000 B.C.E. It benefited from trade and technological influence from Mesopotamia, but it produced different social structures and cultural expressions. Unlike Mesopotamian civilization, Egyptian civilization featured very durable and centralized state institutions. Mathematical achievements and impressive architectural forms, including the pyramids71) First civilization of Indian subcontinent ​Emerged in Indus River valley c. 2500 BCE 72) Cattle- and sheep-herding societies normally found on the fringes of civilized societies ​Commonly referred to as “barbarian” by civilized societies 73) Made Jerusalem Capitol of Israel 74) Queen of Egypt acknowledged as ______... Had higher status than other wives
 

 

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