Studied by 4 people
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
