Ch.3 Ap world vocab Flashcards
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| 32003572 | Iron Age | the period following the Bronze Age; characterized by rapid spread of iron tools and weapons | 0 | |
| 32003573 | Hittites | A people from central Anatolia who established an empire in Anatolia and Syria in the Late Bronze Age. With wealth from the trade in metals and military power based on chariot forces, the hittites vied with New Kingdom Egypt over Syria (p.64) | 1 | |
| 32003574 | Hatshepsut | queen of egypt (1503-1482). after husband's death (Thutmose II), she bestowed the title of pharaoh on herself and adopted all pharaonic customs, including wearing the false beard | 2 | |
| 32003575 | Hatshepsut | female pharaoh who expanded Egypt through trade | 3 | |
| 32003576 | Akhenaten | early ruler of Egypt who rejected the old gods and replaced them with sun worship (died in 1358 BC) | 4 | |
| 32004402 | Ramesses II | A long-lived ruler of New Kingdom Egypt (r. 1290-1224 B.C.E.). He reached an accommodation with the Hittites of Anatolia after a standoff in battle at Kadesh in Syria. He built on a grand scale throughout Egypt. | 5 | |
| 32004403 | An archaeologist excavating the ruins of a great palace on Crete named the palace and the civilization after its king. It is known to us as the ___________ civilization. | Minoan | 6 | |
| 32004404 | Mycenaen | First advanced civilization in Greece | 7 | |
| 32004405 | shaft graves | A circle of graves at the base of a deep rectangular shaft | 8 | |
| 32004406 | Linear B | modern name for the script (composed of signs and pictures) in which Mycenaean Greeks kept records on tablets of clay | 9 | |
| 32004407 | Neo-Assyrian Empire | Powerful and aggressive empire, first to rule many lands and peoples | 10 | |
| 32004408 | mass deportation | Forcibly uprooting entire communities and resettling them elsewhere | 11 | |
| 32004409 | Library of Ashurbanipal | Contained official documents as well as literary and scientific texts | 12 | |
| 32004410 | Israel | Land the Israelites occupy | 13 | |
| 32004411 | Hebrew Bible | Compilation of several collections of materials that originated with different groups, employs many vocabularies, advocated certain interpretations of events | 14 | |
| 32004412 | First Temple | Was built by Solomon to strengthen the link between religious and secular authority | 15 | |
| 32004413 | monotheism | Absolute belief in Yahweh as the one and only god | 16 | |
| 32004414 | Diaspora | Greek word meaning dispersion or scattering | 17 | |
| 32004415 | Phoenicians | Name of a major element of the ancient population of Syria/Palestine | 18 | |
| 32004416 | Carthage | Controlled the middle portion of the Mediterranean where Europe comes closest to Africa | 19 | |
| 32004417 | Neo-Babylonian kingdom | x | 20 | |
| 32006035 | first site excavated in Greece | Mycenae | 21 | |
| 32009734 | Crossroads that link Anatolia, Egypt, Arabia, and Mesopotamia | Israel | 22 |