9th grade Pre-Dip AP World History Vocabulary..... Chapters 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6
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| 231586960 | Iron Age | Historians' term for the period during which iron was the primary metal for tools and weapons. | 0 | |
| 231586961 | Hittites | A people from central Anatolia who established an empire in Anatolia and Syria in the late bronze age. | 1 | |
| 231586962 | Hatshepsut | Queen of Egypt; She dispatched a naval expedition to Punt (Possibly Northeast Sudan or Eritrea), the faraway source of Myrrh. | 2 | |
| 231586963 | 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. | 3 | |
| 231586964 | 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 | |
| 231586965 | Minoan | Prosperous civilization on the Aegean island of Crete in the second millennium B.C.E. | 5 | |
| 231586966 | Mycenae | Site of a fortified palace complex in Southern Greece that controlled a late Bronze Age kingdom. | 6 | |
| 231586967 | 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 B.C.E. | 7 | |
| 231586968 | Mass Deportation | The forcible removal and relocation of large #s of people or entire populations. | 8 | |
| 231586969 | Library of Ashurbanipal | A large collection of writings drawn from the ancient literary, religious, and scientific traditions of Mesopotamia. Assembled by the Assyrian ruler, Ashurbanipal. | 9 | |
| 231586970 | Israel | The land between the Eastern shore of the Mediterranean and the Jordan River. | 10 | |
| 231586971 | Hebrew Bible | A series of sacred books containing diverse materials concerning the Origins, experiences, beliefs, and practices. | 11 | |
| 231586972 | Diaspora- & Phoenicians- | "Dispersal" & Developed the Alphabet | 12 | |
| 231586973 | Carthage- & The Tophet of the Carthage- | -Major commercial center, founded by the Phoenicians. -Cremated bodies of sacrificed children were buried here! | 13 | |
| 231586974 | Satrap | The governor of a province in the Achaemenid Persian Empire, often a relative of the king. | 14 | |
| 231586975 | Persepolis | A complex of palaces, reception halls, and treasury buildings erected by the Persian kings Darius I and Xerxes in the Persian homeland. | 15 | |
| 231586976 | Zoroastrianism | A religion originating in ancient Iran that became the official religion of the Achaemenids. | 16 | |
| 231586977 | Polis | Th Greek term for a city-state, an Urban center and the agricultural territory under its control. | 17 | |
| 231586978 | Hoplite | Greek infantryman. | 18 | |
| 231586979 | Democracy | System of which government in which all "citizens" have equal political and legal rights, privileges, and protections. | 19 | |
| 231586980 | Sacrifice | A gift given to a deity (holy; respect; divine; sacred), often with the aim of creating a relationship, gaining favor, and obligating the god to provide some benefit to the sacrificer. | 20 | |
| 231586981 | Persian Wars | Wars between Greek city-states and the Persian Empire. | 21 | |
| 231586982 | Hellenistic Age | Greek culture spread across Western Asia and Northeastern Africa after the conquests of Alexander the Great. | 22 | |
| 231586983 | Alexander | King of Macedonia in Northern Greece. He conquered the Persian Empire, reached the Indus Valley, Founded many Greek style cities, and spread Greek culture across the middle east. | 23 | |
| 231586984 | Republic | The period from during which Rome was largely governed by the Aristocratic Roman Senate. | 24 | |
| 231586985 | Senate | A council whose members were the heads of wealthy, landowning families. | 25 | |
| 231586986 | Constantine- Qin- | -Roman Emperor - Quin ruler.... SHI HUANGDI | 26 | |
| 231586987 | Shi Huangdi | Founder of the short lived Qin, creator of the Chinese Empire. | 27 |
