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| 7483366450 | Iron Age | The age where people began to use iron instead of bronze for important tools and weapons | 0 | |
| 7483366451 | Hittites | Speakers of an Indo-European language; 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 | 1 | |
| 7483366452 | Hatshepsut | Queen of Pharaoh Tuthmosis II; Served as regent for her youngnstepson and soon claimed the royal title for herself; 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 | |
| 7483366453 | Akhenaten | "Beneficial to the Aten"; Amenhotep IV was his real name. The name change occurred because it was one of the ways in which Amenhotep sought to spread his belief in Aten as the supreme deity; 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 sundisk. | 3 | |
| 7483366454 | Ramesses II | Greatest of monarchs; Ruled for 66 years (1290-1224 BCE); Long lived ruler; 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 | |
| 7483366455 | Minoan | A prosperous civilization on the Aegean island of Crete in the second millennium B.C.E. The Minoans engaged in far-flung commerce around the Mediterranean and exerted powerful cultural influences on the early Greeks. | 5 | |
| 7483366456 | Mycenae | Site of a fortified palace complex in southern Greece that controlled a Late Bronze Age kingdom. They were the base of King Agamemnon, who commanded the Greeks besieging Troy. | 6 | |
| 7483366457 | Shaft graves | Burial sites of elite members of Mycenaean Greek society in the mid-second millennium B.C.E. At the bottomn of deep shafts lined with stone slabs, the bodies were laid out along with gold and bronze jewelry, implements, weapons and masks. | 7 | |
| 7483366458 | 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 Linear B tablets provide substantial info about the economic organization of Mycenaean society and tantalizing clues about political, social, and religious institutions. | 8 | |
| 7483366459 | Neo-Assyrian Empire | An empire extending from western Iran to Syria-Palestine, conquered by the Assyrians of northern Mesopotamia between the 10th and 7th centuries BCE. They used force and terror and exploited the wealth and labor of their subjects. They also preserved and continued the cultural and scientific developments of Mesopotamian civilization. | 9 | |
| 7483366460 | Mass deportation | The forcible removal and relocation of large numbers of people or entire populations. The mass deportations practiced by the Assyrian and Persian Empires were meant as a terrifying warning of the consequences of rebellion. They also brought skilled and unskilled labor to the imperial center. | 10 | |
| 7483366461 | Library of Ashurbanipal | A large collection of writings drawn from the ancient literary, religious, and scientific traditions of Mesopotamia. It was assembled by the 7th century B.C.E. Assyrian ruler Ashurbanipal. The many tablets unearthed by archaeologists constitute one of the most important sources of present-day knowledge of the long literary tradition of Mesopotamia. | 11 | |
| 7483366462 | Israel | The land between the eastern shore of the Mediterranean and the Jordan River, occupied by the Israelites from the early second millennium B.C.E. | 12 | |
| 7483366463 | Hebrew Bible | A collection if sacred books containing diverse materials concerning the origins, experiences, beliefs, and practices of the Israelites. | 13 | |
| 7483366464 | First Temple | A monumental sanctuary built in Jerusalem by King Solomon in the 10th century B.C.E. to be the religious center for the Israelite god Yahweh. The Temple priesthood conducted sacrifices received a tithe or percentage of agricultural revenues and became economically and politically powerful. The First Temple was destroyed by the Babylonians in 587 B.C.E. and replaced by King Herod's Second Temple in the late 1st century B.C.E. | 14 | |
| 7483366465 | Monotheism | Belief in the existence of a single divine entity | 15 | |
| 7483366466 | Diaspora | A Greek word meaning "dispersal", used to describe the communities of a given ethnic group living outside their homeland. | 16 | |
| 7483366467 | Phoenicians | Semitic-speaking Canaanites living on the coast of modern Lebanon and Syria in the first millennium B.C.E. From major cities such as Tyre and Sodom, Phoenician merchants and sailors explored the Mediterranean, engaged in widespread commerce, and founded Carthage. | 17 | |
| 7483366468 | Carthage | City located in present-day Tunisia, founded by Phoenicians by 800 B.C.E. It became a major commercial center and naval power in the western Mediterranean until defeated by Rome in the 3rd century B.C.E. | 18 | |
| 7483366469 | Neo-Babylonian Kingdom | Under the Chaldaeans, Babylon again became a major political and cultural center in the 7th and 6th centuries B.C.E. After participating in the destruction of Assyrian power, the monarchs Nabopolassar and Nebuchadnezzar took over the southern portion of the Assyrian domains. By destroying the First Temple in Jerusalem and deporting part of the population, they initiated the Diaspora of the Jews. | 19 |
