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| 10420578460 | Iron Age | Historians' term for the period during which iron was the primary metal for tools and weapons | 0 | |
| 10420578461 | Hittites | A people from central Anatolia who established an empire in Anatolia and Syria in the Late Bronze Age. with wealth from the trade in metals and military power based on chariot forces, the Hittites vied with New Kingdom Egypt for control of Syria-Palestine before falling to unidentified attackers in about 1200 BCE | 1 | |
| 10420579263 | Hatshepsut | Queen of Egypt; she dispatched a naval expedition down the Red Sea to Punt, the faraway source of myrrh. There is evidence of opposition to a woman as ruler, and after her death her name and image were frequently defaced | 2 | |
| 10420579945 | Akhenaten | Egyptian pharaoh; he built a new capital at Amarna, fostered a new style of naturalistic art, and created a religious revolution by imposing worship of the sun-disk. The Amarna letters, largely from his reign, preserve official correspondence with subjects and neighbors | 3 | |
| 10420579946 | Ramesses II | A long-lived ruler of New Kingdom Egypt; he reached an accommodation with the Hittites of Anatolia after a standoff in battle at Kadesh in Syria. He built on a grand scale throughout Egypt | 4 | |
| 10420580763 | Minoan | Prosperous civilization on the Aegean island of Crete in the second millennium BCE. They engaged in far-flung commerce around the Mediterranean and exerted powerful cultural influences on the early Greeks | 5 | |
| 10420580764 | Mycenae | Site of a fortified palace complex in southern Greece that controlled a Late Bronze Age Kingdom. In Homer's epic poems this was the base of Kin Agamemnon, who commanded the Greeks besieging Troy | 6 | |
| 10420588131 | Shaft Graves | A term used for the burial sites of elite members of Mycenaean Greek society in the mid-second millennium BCE. At the bottom on deep shafts line with stone slabs, the bodies were laid out along with gold and bronze jewelry, implements, weapons, and masks | 7 | |
| 10420609911 | Linear B | A set of syllabic symbols, derived from the writing system of Minoan Crete, used in the Mycenaean palaces of the Late Bronze Age to write an early form of Greek. It was used primarily for palace records, and the surviving tablets provide substantial information about the economic organization of Mycenaean society and tantalizing clues about political, social, and religious institutions | 8 | |
| 10420609912 | Neo-Assyrian Empire | An empire extending from western Iran to Syria-Palestine, conquered by the Assyrians of northern Mesopotamia between the tenth and seventh centuries BCE. They used force and terror and exploited the wealth and labor of their subjects as well as preserved and continued the cultural and scientific developments of Mesopotamian civilization | 9 | |
| 10420610585 | Mass Deportation | The forcible removal and relocation of large numbers of people or entire populations | 10 | |
| 10420610586 | Library of Ashurbanipal | A large collection of writings drawn from the ancient literary, religious, and scientific traditions of Mesopotamia. It was assembles by the sixth century BCE archaeologists constitute one of the most important sources of present-day knowledge of the long literary tradition of Mesopotamia | 11 | |
| 10420610946 | Israel | In antiquity, the land between the eastern shore of the Mediterranean and the Jordan River, occupied by the Israelites from the early second millennium BCE. The modern state was founded in 1948 | 12 | |
| 10420610947 | Hebrew Bible | A collection of sacred books containing diverse materials concerning the origins, experiences, beliefs, and practices among the Israelites. Most of the extant text was compiled by members of the priestly class in the fifth century BCE and reflects the concerns and views of this group | 13 | |
| 10420610948 | First Temple | A monumental sanctuary built in Jerusalem by King Solomon in the tenth century BCE to be the religious center for the Israelite god Yahweh | 14 | |
| 10420610949 | Monotheism | Belief in the existence of a single divine entity | 15 | |
| 10420612102 | Diaspora | Describes the communities of a given ethnic group living outside their homeland | 16 | |
| 10420612103 | Phoenicians | Semitic-speaking Canaanites living on the coast of modern Lebanon and Syria in the first millennium BCE | 17 | |
| 10420612104 | Carthage | City located in present-day Tunisia, founded by Phoenicians c. 800 BCE; it became a major commercial center and naval power in the western Mediterranean until defeated by Rome in third century BCE | 18 | |
| 10420612326 | Neo-Babylonian Kingdom | Under the Chaldaeans (nomadic kinship groups that settled in southern Mesopotamia in the early first millennium BCE); again it became a major political and cultural center in the seventh and sixth centuries BCE. After participating in the destruction of Assyrian power, the monarchs Nabopolassar and Nebuchadnezzar took over the southern portion of the Assyrian domains | 19 |
