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Ch.4
Term | Definition |
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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 | Lasted for about one thousand years, between 2000 and 1000 b.c. |
Thutmose the third | Proved to be a much more like ruler. |
Nubia | A region of Africa that straddled the upper Nile river. |
Meroe | Meroe later closer to the Red Sea than Napata did, and so became active in the flourishing trade Africa, Arabia, and India. |
Assyria | Acquired a large empire around 850 b.c. |
King Ashurbanipal | Collected more than 20,000 clay tablets from the Fertile Crescent. |
Medes | They had a combined army around 612 b.c. |
King Nebuchadnezzar | Restored the city |
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, expanded the Persian empire by conquering Egypt. |
Royal road | Ran from Susa in Persia to Sardis in Anatolia, a distance of 1,677 miles. |
Zoroaster | He was Persian prophet or it was a Persian prophet. |
Confucius | Born In 551 b.c., Confucius lived in a time when the Zhou dynasty was declined. |
Bureaucracy | Was a trained civil service, or those who run the government. |
Daoism | The philosophy of Laozi came to be known as the Daoism. |
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. |
I Ching | To solve the ethical or practical problems. |