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First Age of Empires
Term | Definition |
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Assyria | A SW Asian kingdom that controlled a large empire from about 850 to 612 BC |
Sennucherib | An Assyrian king who burned Babylon |
Nebuchadnezzar | A Chaldean king who restored Babylon |
Satrap | A governor for each province of Persia that Darius installed to rule locally |
Darius | Cambyses successor who was a noble of the ruling dynasty and began his career as one of the king's bodyguards |
Cyrus | Persia's king in about 550 BC who began to conquer many kingdoms |
Royal Road | An excellent system of roads that allowed Darius to communicate quickly with the most distant parts of the Persian empire |
Zoroaster | A Persian prophet who lived around 600 BC that had the answer to why suffering and chaos existed |
Confucius | China's most influential scholar who lived during the Zhou dynasty decline |
Filial piety | Confucian belief, respect for parents and ancestors, devoting oneself to them |
Bureaucracy | Confucius laid the groundwork for, a trained civil service, those who run the government |
Daoism | The philosophy that has a search for knowledge and understanding of nature which led to scientific discoveries |
Legalism | The belief that a highly efficient and powerful government was the key to restoring order in society |
Lao Tzu | The founder of Daoism |
Shi Huangdi | The name the Qin assumed meaning "First Emperor" |
Han Fei-Tzu | The founder of Legalism |
Mencius | The next most famous Chinese philosopher after Confucius |
Analects | Confucius' teachings |