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Ch.4
Term | Definition |
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Hyksos | Ruled Egypt from about 1640 to 1750 B.C. |
Sea Peoples | Invaders that may of included the philistines who are mentioned in the Hebrew bible |
Egypt's empire fades | After all the invasions Egypt never recovered its previous power |
Libyans | Adopted Egypt's religion instead of making their own |
Kush | Lasted for about 1,000 years between 2000 and 1000 B.C |
Nubia | Lay south of Egypt between he first contract of the Nile, an area of churning rapids, and the division of the of the river into the Blue Nile and White Nile |
Sennacherib | Destroyed 89 cities and 820 villages, burned babylon and ordered most of its people to be killed. |
Nineveh | Great walled city about three miles long and a mole wide |
Ashurbanipal | Collected more than 20,000 clay tablets from throughout the Fertile Crescent |
Nebuchadnezzar | The king that restored Babylon |
Medes | Along with Chaldeans and others burned and leveled Nineveh |
Chaldeans | Made babylon their Capitol around 600 B.C |
Cyrus | Persia's king conquered many neighboring kingdoms |
Darius | A noble of the ruling dynasty began hep is career as a member of the kings bodyguard |
Cambyses | Expanded the Persian empire by conquering Egypt |
Royal Road | Ran from Susa in Persia to Sardis in Anatolia distance of 16,77 miles |
satrap | A governor who ruled locally |
Manichaeism | A religious system that competed with early Christianity for believers |
Confucius | China's most influential scholar |
filial piety | Respect for parents and ancestors |
bureaucracy | A trained civil service or those who run the government |
Daoism | The philosophy of Laozi |
Legalism | Hanfeizi and Li Si were among the founders |
I Ching | A book of oracles |
Qin Dynasty | Replaced Zhou dynasty |