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| 7280911633 | King Tiglath-Pileser I | Assyrian king under whom the Assyrians rose to power from 1360 BC to 1074 BC. conquering all of Mesopotamia and expanded the empire to include much of the Middle East including Egypt, Babylonia, Israel, and Cypress. | 0 | |
| 7280911634 | warrior society | The Assyrians were perhaps most famous for their fearsome army. Fighting was a part of life. It was how they survived. They were known throughout the land as cruel and ruthless. | 1 | |
| 7280911635 | Sargon II | One of the several rulers who ruled Assyria at its height from 744 BC to 612 BC. | 2 | |
| 7280911636 | Ashurbanipal | The last great Assyrian king. | 3 | |
| 7280911637 | Library at Nineveh | Housed the stories of Gilgamesh, the Code of Hammurabi, and more. Much of our knowledge of the Ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia comes from the remains of this. | 4 | |
| 7280911638 | Cyrus the Great | First conquered the Median Empire in 550 BC and then went on to conquer the Lydians and the Babylonians, and founded the Persian Empire. | 5 | |
| 7280911639 | Persian Leniency | Under Cyrus the Great, the Persians allowed the peoples they conquered to continue their lives and cultures. They could keep their customs and religion as long as they paid their taxes and obeyed the Persian rulers. | 6 | |
| 7280911640 | Satrap | In order to maintain control of the large empire, each area had a local ruler. The local ruler was like a governor of the area. | 7 | |
| 7280911641 | Zoroastrianism | Although each culture was allowed to keep their own religion, the Persians followed the teaching of the a particular prophet. This religion believed in one main god. | 8 | |
| 7280911642 | Ahura Mazda | The main god of Zoroastrianism. | 9 | |
| 7280911643 | King Darius | Persian king who wanted to conquer the Greeks who he felt were causing rebellions within his empire | 10 | |
| 7280911644 | Canaan | The Ancient Israelites settled this land sometime between 1300 and 1200 BC. | 11 | |
| 7280911645 | Abraham | Israel traced their descent to a nomadic clan chief who had migrated to Canaan from Mesopotamia. | 12 | |
| 7280911646 | monotheism | the Israelites brought with them a unique cultural facet. For the first time in history, as far as we know, a religion had appeared which concerned the worship of only one god. | 13 | |
| 7280911647 | The Ten Commandments | The Israelite religion was not just unique at that time in recognizing a single god. It also promoted an ethical system which required high standards of behavior from the people. In short, they were required to treat each other. | 14 | |
| 7280911648 | Minoans | The first civilization to appear on European soil. | 15 | |
| 7280911649 | Crete | One of the primary locations of the Minoans. | 16 | |
| 7280911650 | Knossos | The largest and most sophisticated palace, a multi-storied complex of stone buildings impressive by any standards. | 17 | |
| 7280911651 | bull-jumping | An activity pursued by the Minoans the was representative of their culture and religion. | 18 | |
| 7280911652 | Zhou Dynasty | Ruled China from 1122 BC to 256 BC. | 19 | |
| 7280911653 | principalities | Zhou kingdom were divided into principalities, each under a prince who was, in fact or in theory, related to the Zhou royal family. | 20 | |
| 7280911654 | Bureaucracy | More successful princes changed the way they governed their territories--professional "government" officials ran the affairs of state for the emperors. | 21 | |
| 7280911655 | Confucius | One of the greatest Chinese philosophers. | 22 |
