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Lindsay Smith
Chapter 4
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Confucius | Confucius lived in the time when Zhou Dynasty was decline. He had a scholarly life and was a teacher and study history and many other things. |
| Daoism | Was a philosopher that was from Laozi. It's knowledge and understanding of natures led Daoism follower to go into science. |
| Filial piety | They believed that children should practice filial piety or respect their parents and elders.it required honoring memoriesfter death through rituals. |
| Qin Dynasty | In the third century Qin Dynasty replaced Zhou. Qin's leader employed Legalist ideas to subdue the warring states. |
| Bureaucracy | Confucius thought that education could transform a person that is humble into a gentle men. |
| Autocracy | Shi Huangdi established an government that unlimited power and uses it in an arbitrary manner. |
| Yin and yang | Two powers together that represent the natures rythme of life.yin represents cold, dark, soft, and mysterious. Yang represents warm, bring hard and clear. |
| I Ching | I Ching is a book of oracles. Philosophers said the leaders went to that for life's answers . |
| Ramses 2 | Ramses 2 was a pharaoh. Ramses and Hittite made a treaty that promised "peace and brothers between us forever" |
| Nubia | A region of Africa that straddled the upper Nile River. |
| New Kingdom | The period of ancient Egyptians history hat followed he overthrow of Hyksos rulers. |
| Thutmose 3 | Hatshepsut stepson Thutmose 3 proved to be a much more warlike ruler. |
| Hatshepsut | Hatshepsut declared herself pharaoh. |
| Kush | An ancient Nubian kingdom who's ruler controlled Egypt between 2000 - 1000 BC. |
| Piankhi | Piankhi overthrow the Libyan dynasty that had ruled Egypt of 2000 years ago. |
| Meroe | Meroe lay closer to the Red Sea. |
| Assyria | A Southwest Asian kingdom that controlled a large empire from about 850 to 612 BC. |
| Sennacherib | Sennacherib was a Assyrian king. He beggared that he destroyed 89 cities and 820 villages |
| Nebuchadnezzar | He's a Chaldean king of Nebuchadnezzar and he restored the city. |
| Medes | Southwest Asian people who helped destroyed the Assyrian Empire. |
| Nineveh | King Sennacherib who burned down Babylon Los established Nineveh along the Tigris River. |
| Chaldeans | Southwest Asian people who helped destroyed the Assyrians Empire. |
| Ashurbanipal | King Ashurbanipal collected more than 20000 clay tablets from throughout the Fertile Crescent. |
| Cyrus | Persians king began to conquered mainly neighboring kingdoms. |
| Cambyses | Cyrus's son, Cambyses expanded Persian Empire by conquering Egypt. |
| Darius | Cambyses successor, Darius a noble of ruling dynasty ad began his career as the kings bodyguard. |
| Satrap | A governor of a province in the Persian Empire. |
| Royal Road | A road in the Persian Empire, stretching over 1600 miles of Susa n Persia to Sardis in Anatolia. |
| Zoroaster | Zoroaster s a Persian prophet who taught that the earth is a battleground where a great struggle is fought between the spirit of good and the spirit of evil. |