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Jeffrey wright
Chapter 4
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Hyksos | He ruled Egypt from 1640 to 1570 B.C. |
| New kingdom | It was sought to strengthen Egypt by building an empire. |
| Hatshepsut | She declared herself as pharaoh in 1472 B.C. |
| Thutmose III | Was a much more warlike ruler. |
| Nubia | A region of Africa that straddled the upper Nile River. |
| Kush | Lasted for about a thousand years from 2000 and 1000 B.C. |
| S2 Assyria | He acquired a large empire. |
| Sennacherib | He was a ruler that bragged that he had destroyed 89 cities and 820 villages, burned Babylon, and ordered most of its inhabitants killed. |
| Nineveh | It is right along the Tigris River. |
| Ashurbanipal | Collected more than 20,000 clay tables from throughout the Fertile Crescent. |
| The Empire Crumbles | After the last mighty kind's of Assyrain the empire had fell. |
| Nebuchadnezzar | He restored the city. |
| S3 Cyrus | Persian king, that conquered several neighboring kingdoms. |
| Cambyses | Expanded the Persian empire. |
| Royal road | Was a road the Persians invented that was 1,677 miles. |
| Zoroaster | Lived around 600B.C. |
| Satrap | Governor that ruled locally. |
| Darius | A noble of ruling dynasty. |
| S4 Confucius | He lived in at time when the Zhou Dynasty was in decline. |
| Laozi | The first philosopher of Daosim. |
| Yin and Yang | Was a symbol of two powers that represent the natural rhythms of life. |
| I Ching | Is to solve ethical or practical problems. |
| Daosim | Search of knowledge and understanding of nature. |
| Legalism | Was so that the ruler should give rich rewards to the ones who carried out their duties well. |