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| 19616222 | Iron Age | Term for the period during which iron was the primary metal for tools and weapons. | 0 | |
| 19616223 | Hittities | People from central Anatolia and Syria in the Late Bronze Age. | 1 | |
| 19616224 | Hatshepsut | Queen of Egypt. There is evidence of opposition to a woman as ruler, and after her death her name and image were frequently defaced. | 2 | |
| 19616225 | 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 sundisk. | 3 | |
| 19616226 | Ramesses II | Long-lived ruler of New Kingdom Egypt. He reached an accomodation with the Hittities after a standoff in battle at Kadesh in Syria. | 4 | |
| 19616227 | Minoan | Prosperous civilization on the Aegean island of Crete in the second millennium B.C.E. These engaged in far-flung commerce around the Mediterranean and exerted powerful cultural influences on the early Greeks. | 5 | |
| 19616228 | Mycenae | Site of a fortified palace complex in southern Greece that controlled a Late Bronze Age kingdom. | 6 | |
| 19616229 | shaft graves | Term used for the burial sites of elite members of Mycenaean Greek society in the mid-second millennium B.C.E. | 7 | |
| 19616230 | Linear B | Set of syllabic symbols, derived from the writing system of Minoan Crete, used in the Mycenaean palaces of Late Bronze Age to write an early form of Greek. | 8 | |
| 19616231 | Neo-Assyrian Empire | Empire extending from western Iran to Syria-Palestine, conquered by the Assyrians of northern Mesopotamia between the tenth and seventh centuries B.C.E. | 9 | |
| 19616232 | mass deportation | Forcibly uprooting entire communities and resettling them elsewhere. Meant as a terryfying warning of the consequences of rebellion by the Assyrin and Persian Empires. | 10 | |
| 19616233 | Library of Ashurbanipal | Large collection of writings drawn from the ancient literary, religious, and scientific traditions of Mesopotamia. | 11 | |
| 19616234 | Israel | 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 | |
| 19616235 | Hebrew Bible | Collection of sacred books containing diverse materials concerning the origins, experiences, beliefs, and practices of the Israelites. | 13 | |
| 19616236 | First Temple | Monumental sanctuary built in Jerusalem by King Solomon in the tenth century B.C.E. to be the religious center for the Israelite god Yahweh. I was destroyed by the Babylonians in 587 B.C.E., rebuilt on a modest scale in the late sixth century B.C.E., and replaced by King Herod's Second Temple in the late first century B.C.E. | 14 | |
| 19616237 | monotheism | Belief in the existence of a single divine entity. | 15 | |
| 19616238 | Diaspora | Greek word meaning "dispersal", used to describe the communities of a given ethnic group living outside their homeland. | 16 | |
| 19616239 | Phoenicians | Semitic-speaking Canaanites living on the coast of modern Lebanon and Syria in the first millennium B.C.E. They engaged in widespread commerce and founded Carthage among other colonies in the western Mediterranean. | 17 | |
| 19616240 | Carthage | Founded by Phoenicians. It became a major commercial center and naval power in the western Mediterranean. | 18 | |
| 19616241 | Neo-Babylonian kingdom | Under the Chaldaeans, Babylon again became a major political and cultural center in the seventh and sixth centuries. | 19 |
