Unit 1: Pre-History and Early Civilizations

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  1. 3. belief in one god
  2. 6. Persian monotheistic religion
  3. 13. Mesopotamian creation myth
  4. 16. Amenhotep IV's son who immediately overturned the religious reforms of his predecessor
  5. 17. one of Egypt's few female pharaohs
  6. 19. first system of writing developed by the Sumerians
  7. 20. "between two rivers"
  8. 21. Government is run by religious leaders who rule in the name of the gods
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  1. 1. this causes humans to evolve from hunter/gatherer societies to permanent agricultural settlements
  2. 2. built the Temple of Jerusalem
  3. 4. belief in multiple gods
  4. 5. earliest river valley civilization
  5. 7. allowed modern historians to decipher hieroglyphics
  6. 8. first king of Israel
  7. 9. Neo-Babylonian king responsible for the Babylonian Exile of the Jewish people
  8. 10. (originally Amenhotep IV) this pharaoh is known for creating a monotheistic Egyptian religion dedicated to the sun god Aten
  9. 11. Persian king that ends the Babylonian Exile of the Jews
  10. 12. Mesopotamian temples
  11. 14. pharaoh in the Book of Exodus
  12. 15. a great seafaring people; their alphabet is passed on to the Greeks
  13. 18. Babylonian king that develops a strict law code