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Chase Taylor
Ch. 4
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Hyksos | Ruled Egypt from 1640 to 1570 B.C. |
| Ramses 2 | Ramses 2 and a Hittite king later made a treaty that promised "peace and brotherhood between us forever." |
| Kush | Kush lasted for about one thousand years.It was between 2000 and 1000 B.C. |
| Thutmose the 3 | Proved to be a much better ruler. |
| Nubia | A region of Africa that straddled the Upper Nile river. |
| Meroe | Moore was closer to the Red Sea the Napata was so, trade was active in Africa, Arabia, and India. |
| Assyria | Acquired a large empire around 850 B.C. |
| King Ashurbanipal | He collected more than 20,000 clay tablets from the Fertile Cresent. |
| Medes | They had a combined army around 612 B.C. |
| King Nebuchadnezzar | Restored the city of Babylon. |
| Chaldeans | Burned and leveled Nineveh. |
| Nineveh | King Sennacherib who had burned Babylon also had established Assyria's capital at Nineveh along the Tigris river. |
| Cyrus | Was Persia's king and began to conquer several neighboring kingdoms. |
| Cambyses | Was named after Cyrus's father. He expanded the Persian empire by conquering Egypt. |
| Darius | Was Cambyses's successor and a noble of the ruling dynasty. He had begun his career as a member of the kings bodyguard. |
| Royal Road | Ran from Susa in Persia to Sardis in Anatolia, a distance of 1,677 miles. |
| Zoroaster | He was a Persian prophet or it was a Persian prophet. |
| Confucius | Born in 551 B.C., Conficius lived in a time when the Zhou dynasty was declining. |
| Bureaucracy | Was a trained civil service, or those who run the government. |
| Daoism | The philosophy of Laozi came to dynasty |
| Qin Dynasty | In the third century this dynasty replaced the Zhou dynasty. |
| Shi Huangdi | In 221 B.C., after ruling for over 20 years, the Qin ruler assumed the name Shi Huangdi. |
| Yin and Yang | The two powers that together represented the natural rhythms of life. |
| Yellow Sea | In the ease, it is used for trading. |
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