Global History Test

Hyksos

The Asiatic invaders

New kingdom

sought to strengthen Egypt by building an empire

Hatshepsut

Woman who declared herself pharaoh around 1472 BC because her stepson who was heir to the throne was a young child

Thutmose III

Hatshepsut's stepson, was a warlike ruler

Nubia

a region of Africa that straddled the upper Nile River

Ramses II

a king later made a treaty that promised "peace and brotherhood between us forever"

Kush

kingdom saw itself as the guardians of Egyptian civilization after the Libyans were ousted from Eygpt.

Piankhi

a Kushite king who overthrew the Libyan dynasty that had ruled Egypt for over 200 years

Meroe

was a city that was close to the Red Sea and had ample rainfall and iron-lay closer to the red sea then Napata did

Medes

a Southwest Asian people who helped to destroy Nineveh in 612 BCE

Chaldeans

burned Ninevah, made Babylon their capital

Nebuchadnezzar

Chaldean king

Assyria

a southwest Asian kingdom that controlled a large empire from about 850 to 612 B.C

Sennacherib

Assyria king known for destroying 89 cities and 820 villages

Nineveh

Assyrian capital along with the Tigris River; 3 miles long and 1 mile wide ; walled

Ashurbanipal

king collected over 20,000 books for the library in Nineveh

Cyrus

Persian King; conquered several neighboring kingdoms, was kind to them

Cambyses

Cyrus's son, expaned empire to Eygpt

Darius

noble for the ruling dynasty; " Ten Thousand immortals" helped Darius seize throne

Satrap

governor of a province in the Persian Empire

Royal Road

A road in the Persian Empire, stretching over 1600 miles Susa in Persia to Sardis in Anatolia

Zoroaster

a Persian Prophet, lived around 600 B.c taught that the earth is a battleground where a great struggle if fought between spirit of good and the spirit of evil, founder of Zoroastrianism.

Confucius

China's most influential scholar, lived during Zhou's decline

Filial piety

Respect for parents and ancestors; something that children should practice for the rest of their lives

Bureaucracy

Confucius's idea where there is trained civil service of people who run the government.

Daoism

a religion and a philosphy from ancient china that has influenced folk and national beef

Legalism

a way to govern in which a highly efficient and powerful government was the key to restoring order in society

I Ching

Book of oracles that helped solve ethical or practice problems

Yin and Yang

two powers that represent the natural rhythm of life

Win Dynasty

replacd the Zhou Dynasty; employed legalist ideas to unify the country

Shi Huangdi

" First Emperor" of Qin Dynasty stopped rebellion, murdered hundreds of Confucian scholars and burned books; established an autocracy

Autocracy

a government that has unlimited power and uses it an arbitrary manner