The Earth and its Peoples: Chapter 3 Flashcards
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213708553 | Iron Age | Period where iron tools and weapons instead of bronze | 0 | |
213708554 | Hitties | foremost power in Anatolia from 1700 to 1200 B.C.E. | 1 | |
213708555 | Hatsheput | Queen of New Kingdom of Egypt | 2 | |
213708556 | Akhenaten | Egyptian pharoah who changed his name to spread the belief in Aten as the supreme god | 3 | |
213708557 | Ramesses II | Long-lived ruler of New Kingdom Egypt who undertook monumental building projects | 4 | |
213708558 | Minoan | Civilization of Aegean Island of Crete in second millennium B.C. | 5 | |
213708559 | Mycenae | Fortified palace complex that controlled Late Bronze Age kingdom | 6 | |
213708560 | shaft graves | Bodies buried with jewelry, weapons and utensils | 7 | |
213708561 | Linear B | Pictorial symbols that represented syllables | 8 | |
213708562 | Neo-Assyrian Empire | Large empire that used terror tactics to maintain control | 9 | |
213708563 | Mass deportation | The forcible removal and relocation of large numbers of people or entire populations | 10 | |
213708564 | Library of Ashurbanipal | A large collection of writings drawn from the ancient literary, religious and scientific traditions of Mesopotamia | 11 | |
213708565 | Israel | In antiquity, the land between the eastern shore of the Mediterranean and the Jordan River, occupied by the Israelites from the early second millennium | 12 | |
213708566 | Hebrew Bible | A collection of sacred books containing diverse materials concerning the origins, experiences, beliefs and practices of the Israelites | 13 | |
213708567 | 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 | |
213708568 | monotheism | Belief in the existence of a single divine entity or god | 15 | |
213708569 | Diaspora | The Greek word meaning "dispersal," used to describe the communities of a given ethnic group living outside their homeland | 16 | |
213708570 | Phoenicians | Semitic-speaking Canaanites living on the coast of modern Lebanon and Syria in the first millennium B.C.E. | 17 | |
213708571 | Carthage | City located in present-day Tunisia, founded by Phoenicians ca. 800 B.C.E. | 18 | |
213708572 | Neo-Babylonian kingdom | Under the Chaldaeans (nomadic kingship groups that settled in southern Mesopotamia in the early first millennium B.C.E.), Babylon again became a major political and cultural center in the seventh and sixth century B.C.E. | 19 |