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Chapter 4 Review Terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Hatshepsut | declared herself pharaoh around 1472 BC. She took it from her step son, first women pharaoh. |
| new kingdom | the period of ancient Egyptian history that followed the overthrow of the Hyksos rulers, lasting from about 1570 to 1075 BC |
| Kush | an ancient Nubian kingdom whose rulers controlled Egypt between 2000 and 1000 BC |
| Assyria | a southwest Asian kingdom that controlled a large empire from about 850 to 612 BC |
| Medes | southwest Asian people who helped to destroy the Assyrian Empire |
| Chaldeans | a southwest Asian people who helped to destroy the Assyrian Empire. |
| satrap | a governor of a province in the Persian Empire |
| Royal Road | a road in the Persian empire, stretching over 1,600 miles from Susa in Persia to Sardis in Anatolia |
| Cyrus | the first Persian king, who conquer several kingdoms. a military genius. from 550 to 539 BC |
| bureaucracy | a system of departments and agencies formed to carry out the work of government |
| legalism | a Chinese political philosophy based on the idea that a highly efficient and powerful government is the key to social order |
| autocracy | a government in which the ruler has unlimited power and uses it in an arbitary manner |