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Ch.4
Term | Definition |
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Hyksos | Asiatic invaders |
Hatshepsut | Declared herself pharaoh in 1472 b.c. Took over because her stepson was a child. |
Piankhi | A kushite king. |
Nubia | Region of Africa that straddled the upper Nile river |
Queen Ahhotep | She took over when her husband was killed in battle. |
Tutmoses ||| | Took over after his step mom Hatshepsut maybe even killed her. |
New kingdom | Lasted from 1570-1075b.c. |
Nineveh | Where Assyrians capital is. |
Sennacherib | An Assyrian king |
Nebuchadnezzar | A Chaldean king |
Assyria | Southwest Asian kingdom |
Medes | Southwest Asian people |
Chaldeans | Southwest Asian people |
Cyrus | Persian king |
Cambyses | Cyrus's son and another Persian king |
Darius | Cambyses successor ruled after Cambyses died |
Zoroaster | A Persian prophet. |
Royal road | A trading route. |
Satrap | A governer |
Yin and yang | Twopowers that together represented the natural rhythms of life |
Legalism | Chinese philosophy where a powerful government is key to social order |
Filial piety | Respect for parents and ancestors |
Confucius | China's most influential scholar |
Daoism | Philosophy of laozi |
Autocracy | Government that has unlimited power |