Ch.3 vocab
4737429401 | iron age | the period during which iron was used primarily for tools and weapons, instead of bronze | 0 | |
4737430509 | hittites | they were from anatolia (turkey) and they created an empier | 1 | |
4737433075 | hittites technologies | horse-drawn chariots, iron tools and weapons, econ and military advantages | 2 | |
4737440160 | israel | land of cannan occupied by the israelites from the early second millennium | 3 | |
4737443604 | hebrew bible | a collection of sacred books reflecting the concerns and view of the israelites | 4 | |
4737444446 | covenant and chosen people | people who worship the god, Yahweh | 5 | |
4737445179 | first temple | a sanctuary built by kinf solomon in jerusalem in the 10th century bce. A centural shrine for the israelites | 6 | |
4737446592 | monotheism | the belief in one god. The core israel belief | 7 | |
4737448421 | diaspora | jews living outside of israel | 8 | |
4737449276 | phoenicians | semitic- speaking people living on the coast of modern day lebanon and syria | 9 | |
4737451933 | hatshepsut | queen of egypt (dispatched a naval expedition to punt) | 10 | |
4737451934 | akhenaten | egyptian pharaoh ( 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) | 11 | |
4737452226 | ramesses ll | a long lived ruler of new kingdom egypt (reached a accomodation with the hittites of anatolia and built on a grand scale througout egypt) | 12 | |
4737452227 | minoan | prosperous civilization on the aegean island of crete in the second millenium | 13 | |
4737452228 | mycenae | site of a fortified palace complex in southern greece that controlled a late bronze age kingdom | 14 | |
4737452461 | shaft graves | burial sites of elite members of mycenaean greek society in the mid- second millenium bce | 15 | |
4737452463 | 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 a early form of greek | 16 | |
4737453555 | neo- assyrian empire | an empire extending from western iran to syria- palestine | 17 | |
4737453556 | mass deportation | the forcible removal and relocation of large members of people or entire populations | 18 | |
4737453877 | library of ashurbanipal | a large collection of writings drawn from the ancient literary, religious, and scientific traditions of mesopotamia | 19 | |
4737453878 | carthage | city located in present- day Tunisia, founded by phoenicians | 20 | |
4737454470 | neo- babylonian kingdom | babylon's major political and cultural center in the 7 th and 6th centuries bce | 21 |