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| 213698345 | Iron Age | Historians' term for the period during which iron was the primary metal for tools and weapons. The advent of iron technology began at different times in different parts of the world. | 0 | |
| 213698346 | Hitties | A people from central Anatolia who established an empire in Anatolia and Syria in the Late Bronze Ager. With wealth from the trade in metals and military power based on chariot forces, the Hitties vied with New Kingdom Egypt for control of Syria-Palestine before falling to unidentified attackers ca. 1200 B.C.E. | 1 | |
| 213698347 | Hatshepsut | Queen of Egypt (r. 1473-1458 B.C.E.) She dispatched a navel expedition to Punt (possibly northeast Sudan or Eritrea), the far-away source of myrrh. There is evidence of opposition to a woman as ruler, and after her death her name and image were frequently defaced | 2 | |
| 213698348 | Akhenaten | Egyptian pharoh (r. 1353-1335 B.C.E.). He built a new capital at Amarna, fostered a new style of art, and created a religious revolution by imposing worship of the sun-disk. | 3 | |
| 213698349 | Ramesses II | A long lived ruler of New Kingdom Egypt (r. 1290-1224 B.C.E.). He reached an accommodation with the Hitties of Anatolia after a standoff in battle at Kadesh in Syria. He built on a grand scale throughout Egypt. | 4 | |
| 213698350 | Minoan | Prosperous civilization on the Aegean island of Crete in the second milennium B.C.E. The minoans engaged in far-flung commerce around the Medditeranian and exerted powerful cultural influences on the early Greeks | 5 | |
| 213698351 | Mycenae | Site of a fortified palace complex in southern Greece that controlled a late bronze age kingdom. In Homer's epic poems, Mycenae was the base of King Agamemnon, who commanded the Greeks besieging Troy. | 6 | |
| 213698352 | shaft graves | A term used for the burial sites of elite members of Mycenaean Greek society in the mid-second millennium B.C.E. At the bottom of deep shafts lined with stone slabs, the bodies were laid out along with gold and bronze jewelry, implements, weapons, and masks | 7 | |
| 213698353 | Linear B | A set of syllabic symbols, derived from the writing system of Minoan Crete, used in the Mycenaean oakaces of the Late Bronze Age to write an early form of Greek. | 8 | |
| 213698354 | 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. The used force and terror and exploided the wealth and labor of their subjects. | 9 | |
| 213698355 | mass deportation | The forcible removal and relocation of large numbers of people or entire populations. | 10 | |
| 213698356 | Library of Ashurbanipal | A large collection of writings drawn from the ancient literary, religious, and scientific traditions of Mesopotamia. It was assembled by the seventh-century B.C.E. Assyrian ruler Ashurbanipal. | 11 | |
| 213698357 | Israel | In antiquity, the land between the eastern shore of the Mediteranean and the Jordan River, Occupied by the Israelites from the early second mullennium B.C.E. The modern state of Israel was founded in 1948 | 12 | |
| 213698358 | Hebrew Bible | A collection of sacred books containing diverse materials concerning the origins, experiences, beliefs, and practices of the Israelites. | 13 | |
| 213698359 | First Temple | A 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. | 14 | |
| 213698360 | monotheism | Belief in the existance of a single divine entity. | 15 | |
| 213698361 | Diaspora | Greek word meaning "disperal," used to describe the communities of a given ethnic group living outside their homeland | 16 | |
| 213698362 | Phoenicians | Sematic speaking Canaanites living on the coast of modern Lebanon and Syria in the first millennium B.C.E. | 17 | |
| 213698363 | Carthage | A city located in present-day Tunisia, founded by Phoenicians ca. 800 B.C.E. It became a major commercial center and naval power in the western Mediterranean until defeated by Rome in the third century B.C.E. | 18 | |
| 213698364 | Neo-Babylonian kingdom | Under the Chaldaeans, Babylon became a major political and cultural center in the seventh and sixth century B.C.E. | 19 |
