Adapted from "The Earth and its Peoples: A Global History," 5th ed., Chapter 3
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| 291375618 | Iron Age | the period during which iron was the primary metal for tools and weapons | 0 | |
| 291375619 | Hittites | people from central Anatolia who established an empire in Anatolia and Syria during the Late Bronze Age | 1 | |
| 291375620 | Hatshepsut | Queen of Egypt who dispatched naval expedition to Punt | 2 | |
| 291375621 | Akhenaten | Egyptian pharaoh who built capital at Amarna, fostered new style of naturalistic art, and created religious revolution | 3 | |
| 291375622 | Ramesses II | a long-lived ruler of New Kingdon Egypt; encountered Hittites in battle in Syria, built on grand scale throughout Egypt | 4 | |
| 291375623 | Minoan | prosperous civilization on island of Crete in second millenium BCE | 5 | |
| 291375624 | Mycenae | site of a fortified palace complex in southern Greece that controlled a late bronze age kingdom | 6 | |
| 291375625 | shaft graves | burial sites of elite members of Mycenaean Greek society | 7 | |
| 291375626 | Linear B | set of syllabic symbols derived from Minoan and used in Mycenaean palaces to write an early form of Greek | 8 | |
| 291375627 | Neo-Assyrian Empire | empire extending from western Iran to Syria-Palestine | 9 | |
| 291375628 | mass deportation | forcible removal and relocation of large numbers of people or entire populations | 10 | |
| 291375629 | Israel | the land between the eastern shore of the Mediterranean and the Jordan River | 11 | |
| 291375630 | Hebrew Bible | collection of sacred books containing diverse materials concerning origins, experiences, beliefs, and practices of the Israelites | 12 | |
| 291375631 | First Temple | monumental sanctuary built in Jerusalem by King Solomon in the tenth century BCE to be the religious center for the god Yahweh | 13 | |
| 291375632 | monotheism | belief in the existence of a single divine entity | 14 | |
| 291375633 | Diaspora | Greek word meaning "dispersal," used to describe the communities of a given ethnic group living outside their homeland | 15 | |
| 291375634 | Phoenicians | Semitic speaking Canaanites living on the coast of modern Lebanon and Syria in the first millenium BCE | 16 | |
| 291375635 | Carthage | city located in present-day Tunisia, founded by Phonecians in 800 BCE | 17 | |
| 291375636 | Neo-Babylonian kingdom | empire centered around the conquests of the Chaldaeans that made Babylon the most powerful city in the world during 6th century BCE | 18 |
