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Maggie
Ch. 4
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Hyksos | Asiatic invaders that ruled Egypt from about 1640 to 1570 b.c. |
| New Kingdom | Existed about 1570-1075 B.C. |
| Hatshepsut | Declared declared herself pharaoh around 1472 b.c. |
| Nubia | A region of Africa that straddled the upper Nile |
| Thutmose III | Hatshepsut’s stepson-- may have even murdered Hatshepsut-- ruler after her |
| Ramses II | Was a pharaoh-- made a treaty that promised “peace and brotherhood between us forever." |
| Kush | Nubian country whose rulers controlled Egypt from 2000 to 1000 b.c. |
| Meroë | Center of the Kush dynasty from about 250 b.c. to a.d. 150 |
| Piankhi | a Kushite king that overthrew the Libyan dynasty that had ruled Egypt for over 200 years |
| Assyria | Southwest Asian kingdom that controlled a large empire from about 850 to 612 b.c. |
| Sennacherib | Assyrian King that helped built an empire that stretched from east and north of the Tigris River all the way to central Egypt |
| Ashurbanipal | Collected more than 20,000 clay tablets from throughout the Fertile Crescent in the unique Nineveh large library |
| Chaldeans | Southwest Asian people who helped to destroy the Assyrian Empire |
| Nebuchadnezzar | A Chaldean King who helped restore the city of Babylon |
| Cyrus | Persia's king in 550 b.c. |
| Medes | Southwest Asian people who helped destroy the Assyrian Empire |
| Nineveh | Asseria's capital along the Tigris River |
| Cambyses | Cyrus's son who expanded the Persian Empire by conquering Egypt |
| Darius | A noble of the ruling dynasty |
| satrap | A governor of a province in the Persian Empire |
| Royal Road | A road in the Persian Empire stretching over 1600 miles for traveling |
| Zoroaster | A Persian prophet who lived around 600 b.c. |
| Confucius | China's most influential scholar |
| filial piety | Respect shown by children toward their elders |
| bureaucracy | A system of departments and agencies formed to carry out the work of the government |
| Daoism | A philosophy based on the ideas of the Chinese thinker Laozi |
| Legalism | A Chinese political philosophy based on the idea that a highly efficient and powerful government is the key to social order |
| I Ching | A Chinese book of oracles, consulted to answer ethical and practical problems |
| yin and yang | Two powers that governed the natural rhythms of life |
| Qin Dynasty | A short-lived Chinese dynasty that replaced the Zhou dynasty in the third century b.c. |
| Shi Huangdi | Qin ruler assumed this name. It means “First Emperor" |
| autocracy | A government in which the ruler has limited power and uses it in an arbitrary manner |
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