These are the key terms from Chapter 3 of The Earth and Its Peoples for AP World History
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| 143988461 | Akhenaton | Egyptian pharaoh (r. 1353-1335 B.C.E.). 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. | 1 | |
| 143988462 | Hatshepsut | Queen of Egypt (r. 1473-1458 B.C.E.). She dispatched a naval expedition down the Red Sea to Punt (possibly northeast Sudan or Eretria), the faraway source of myrrh. | 2 | |
| 143988463 | Hittites | A people from central Anatolia who established an empire in Anatolia and Syria in the Late Bronze Age. | 3 | |
| 143988464 | Iron Age | Historians' term for the period during which iron was the primary metal for tools and weapons. | 4 | |
| 143988465 | Library of Ashurbanipal | A large collection of writings drawn from the ancient literary, religious, and scientific traditions of Mesopotamia. | 5 | |
| 143988466 | 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. | 6 | |
| 143988467 | Mass deportation | The forcible removal and relocation of large numbers of people or entire populations. | 7 | |
| 143988468 | Minoan | Prosperous civilization on the Aegean island of Crete in the second millennium B.C.E. | 8 | |
| 143988469 | Mycenae | Site of a fortified palace complex in southern Greece that controlled a Late Bronze Age kingdom. | 9 | |
| 143988470 | Neo Assyrian Empire | An empire extending from western Iran to Syria-Palestine conquered by the ________ people of northern Mesopotamia between the tenth and seventh centuries B.C.E. | 10 | |
| 143988471 | Ramesses II | A long-lived ruler of New Kingdom Egypt (r. 1290-1224 B.C.E.). | 11 | |
| 143988472 | Shaft graves | A term used for the burial sites of elite members of Mycenaean Greek society in the mid-second millennium B.C.E. | 12 | |
| 143988473 | Israel | In antiquity, the land between the eastern shore of the Mediterranean and the Jordan River, occupied by the _________s from the early second millennium B.C.E. | 13 | |
| 143988474 | Hebrew Bible | A collection of sacred books containing diverse materials concerning the origins, experiences, beliefs, and practices of the Israelites. | 14 | |
| 143988475 | First Temple | A monumental sanctuary built in Jersualem by King Solomon in the tenth century B.C.E. to be the religious center for the Israelite god Yahweh. | 15 | |
| 143988476 | Monotheism | Belief in the existence of a single divine entity. | 16 | |
| 143988477 | Diaspora | A Greek word meaning used to describe the communities of a given ethnic group living outside their homeland. | 17 | |
| 143988478 | Phoenicians | Semitic-speaking Canaanites living on the coast of modern Lebanon and Syria in the first millennium B.C.E. | 18 | |
| 143988479 | Carthage | City located in present-day Tunisia, founded by Phoenicians ca. 800 B.C.E. | 19 | |
| 143988480 | Neo-Babylonian Kingdom | Under the Chaldaens (nomadic kinship groups that settled in southern Mesopotamia in the early first millennium B.C.E.), ________ again became a major political and cultural center in the seventh and sixth centuries B.C.E. | 20 |
