ap world ch 3 Flashcards

201424327	Iron Age	Term for the period during which iron was the primary metal for tools and weapons.	0
201424328	Hittities	People from central Anatolia and Syria in the Late Bronze Age.	1
201424329	Hatshepsut	Queen of Egypt.	2
201424330	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
201424331	Ramesses II	Long-lived ruler of New Kingdom Egypt.	4
201424332	Minoan	Prosperous civilization on the Aegean island of Crete in the second millennium B.C.E.	5
201424333	Mycenae	Site of a fortified palace complex in southern Greece that controlled a Late Bronze Age kingdom.	6
201424334	shaft graves	Term used for the burial sites of elite members of Mycenaean Greek society in the mid-second millennium B.C.E.	7
201424335	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
201424336	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
201424337	mass deportation	Forcibly uprooting entire communities and resettling them elsewhere.	10
201424338	Library of Ashurbanipal	Large collection of writings drawn from the ancient literary, religious, and scientific traditions of Mesopotamia.	11
201424339	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
201424340	Hebrew Bible	Collection of sacred books containing diverse materials concerning the origins, experiences, beliefs, and practices of the Israelites.	13
201424341	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.	14
201424342	monotheism	Belief in the existence of a single divine "god".	15
201424343	Diaspora	Greek word meaning "dispersal", used to describe the communities of a given ethnic group living outside their homeland.	16
201424344	Phoenicians	Semitic-speaking Canaanites living on the coast of modern Lebanon and Syria in the first millennium B.C.E.	17
201424345	Carthage	Founded by Phoenicians. It became a major commercial center and naval power in the western Mediterranean.	18
201424346	Neo-Babylonian kingdom	Under the Chaldaeans, Babylon again became a major political and cultural center in the seventh and sixth centuries.	19