Chapter 3 - AP World History Flashcards

3064411124	Iron Age	a period when iron was the primary source for tools and weapons	0
3064426795	Hiltites	people from central Anatolia who established an empire in Anatolia and Syria in the late Bronze Age	1
3064461067	Hatsheput	queen of Egypt who dispatched a naval expedition to Punt, the faraway source of myth	2
3064478461	Akhenaten	Egyptian pharaoh who built a new capital of Amarna, fostered a new style of naturalistic art, and created a religious revolution by imposing worship of the sun - disk	3
3064558216	Ramesses	a long-lived ruler of New Kingdom Egypt who reached an accommodation with the Hiltites of Anatolia after a standoff in battle in Syria	4
3064597585	Minoan	prosperous civilization on the Aegean island of Crete - exerted powerful cultural influences	5
3064614698	Mycenae	site of a fortified palace complex in southern Greece that controlled a late bronze age age kingdom - the based of King Agamemnon, who commanded the Greeks besieging Troy	6
3064654488	Shaft Graves	the burial sites of elite members of Mycenean Greek society	7
3064671511	Linear B	a set of syllabic symbols, used in Mycenaean palaces of the late bronze age to write an early form of Greek	8
3064683155	Neo - Assyrian Empire	an empire from western Iran to Syria - Palestine, conquered by the Assyrians, of northern Mesopotamia - used for force and terror and exploited the wealth and labor of their subject	9
3064711953	Mass Deportation	the forcible removal and relocation of large numbers of people or entire popular - practical by the Assyrian and Persian Empires	10
3064723182	Library of Ashurbanipal	a large collection of writings drawn from the ancient literacy, religious and scientific traditions of Mesopotamia	11
3064738705	Israel	the land between the eastern shore of the Mediterranean and the Jordan River, occupied by the Isaelities	12
3064748777	Hebrew Bible	a collection of sacred books containing diverse materials concerning the origins, experiences, beliefs, and practices of the Israelities	13
3064757938	First Temple	a monumental sanctuary built in Jerusalem by King Solomon to be religious center for the Israelites god Yahweh	14
3064769984	Monotheism	belief in the existence of a single divine entity	15
3064777308	Diaspora	greek word meaning "dispersal", used to describe the communities of a given ethnic group living outside their homeland	16
3064783334	Phoenicians	semitic speaking Canaanites living on the coast of modern Lebanon and Syria	17
3064789297	Carthage	city located in present day Tunisia, became a major commercial and naval power in the western Mesopotamia until defeated by Rome	18
3064804832	Tophet of Carthage	the cremated bodies of sacrificed children were buried, Carthaginians sacrificed markers decorated with magical signs and symbols of divinities as well as family names	19
3064817289	Neo - Babylonian Kingdom	Babylon again became a major political and cultural center	20