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Ch.4
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Hyksos | “These Asiatic invaders ruled Egypt from about 1640 to 1570 b.c. |
| New Kingdom | the period of ancient Egyptian history that followed the overthrow of the Hyksos rules, lasting form about 1570 to 1075 B.C. |
| Hatshepsut | Declared herself pharaoh around 1472 B.C. |
| ThutmoseIII | Was Hatsheput's stepson who proved to be a much more warlike ruler. |
| RamsesIII | A pharaoh and a Hittite king later made a treaty that promised "peace and brotherhood between us forever" |
| Nubia | A region of Africa that straddled the upper Nile River. |
| Kush | A Nubian kingdom which lasted for about a thousand years, between 2000 and 1000 B.C. |
| Piankhi | A Kushite king that overthrew the Libyan dynasty that had ruled Egypt for over 200 years. |
| Meroe | The center of the Kush dynasty from about 250 B.C. to A.D. 150. |
| Assyria | a Southwest Asian kingdom that controlled a large empire from about 850 to 612 B.C. |
| Sennacherib | A Assyrian king that bragged about destroying 89 cites and 820 villages. |
| Nineveh | Assyria's capital across the Tigris River. |
| Ashurbanipal | A king who collected more than 20,000 clay tablets from throughout the Fertile Crescent. |
| Medes | a Southwest Asian people who helped destroy the Assyrian Empire. |
| Chaldeans | a Southwest Asian people who helped destroy the Assyrian Empire. |
| Nebuchadnezzar | A Chaldean king who restored the city of Babylon. |
| Cyrus | Persia's king who conquered several kingdoms. |
| Cambyses | Cyrus's son who expanded the Persian Empire by conquering Egypt. |
| Darius | Cambyses's successor, noble of the ruling dynasty, had begun his career as a member of the kings's bodyguard. |
| 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. |
| Zoroaster | A Persian prophet who answer the question " Why should so much suffering and chaos exist in the world?" |
| Confucius | China's most influential scholar. |
| filial piety | respect shown by children for their parents and elders. |
| bureaucracy | a system of departments and agencies formed to carry out the work of government. |
| Daoism | a philosophy based on the ideas of the Chinese thinker Laozi, who taught that people should be guided by a universal force called the Dao. |
| 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. |
| yin and yang | in Chinese thought, the two powers that govern 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 | Ruled the Qin Dynasty for 20 years. |
| autocracy | a government in which the ruler has unlimited power and uses it in an arbitrary manner. |
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