Ancient Civilizations

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  1. 1. various population groups living in several parts of Europe north of the Mediterranean region they often migrated and eventually occupied territories from Portugal to Turkey.
  2. 4. Norse seafarers, mainly speaking the Old Norse language, who raided and traded from their Northern European homelands.
  3. 5. civilization, characterized by government headed by emperors and large territorial holdings around the Mediterranean Sea in Europe, Africa and Asia.
  4. 8. civilization that was home to the Machu Picchu in Peru
  5. 10. also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire.
  6. 11. Empire founded by Genghis khan by uniting the nomadic tribes of Northeast Asia.
  7. 13. Atila a ruler of this empire was responsible for the downfall of the Romans.
  8. 14. centered in the tropical lowlands of what is now Guatemala, this Civilization excelled at agriculture, pottery, hieroglyph writing, calendar-making and mathematics.
  9. 16. was a Bronze Age civilisation extending from what today is northeast Afghanistan to Pakistan and northwest India.
  10. 19. ancient Mesopotamian civilization pioneered the first true multinational empires in world history that became the centre of one of the great empires of the ancient Middle East.
  11. 20. civilization of Mesoamerican people of central Mexico in the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries.
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  1. 2. a powerful and wealthy civilization of ancient Italy in the area corresponding roughly to Tuscany.
  2. 3. a civilization of ancient Northeastern Africa, located along the Nile River
  3. 6. empire controlled by the Ummayads and Abbasids caliphs.
  4. 7. Home to The Hanging Gardens constructed by king Nebuchadnezzar.
  5. 9. Historically also called the Turkish empire it came to an end after the defeat in the first world war.
  6. 12. which ruled over a vast expanse of the region of ancient Mesopotamia
  7. 15. the common predecessor of the modern states of France and Germany,it was the largest post-Roman Barbarian kingdom in Western Europe.
  8. 17. Empire set up by a series of imperial dynasties in Western Asia
  9. 18. it developed in the Huang He and Yangtze Kiang river valley.