| Term | Definition |
|---|
| This is the process by which people or groups of people move from thier home area to a new area. | migration |
| This group, defeated by the Egyptians but unable to defeat them, made peace with them. | Hittites |
| These people spoke related languages that form the basis of a family of languages spoken by half of the current world population. | Indo-Europeans |
| This is the name of the sacred literature of the Aryan people. | Vedas |
| This poem with 106,000 verses is the longest peom ever composed. | Mahabharata |
| This is the name for the dry grasslands north of the Caucasus. | steppes |
| The people of this civilization were not merely legendary. In the 19th century, archaeologists excavated ___, it's capital city. | Knossos |
| The archaeologists named their civilization for ___ and called the people ___. | Minoans, King Minos |
| Across the ___, in what is now Lebanon, the civilization of the ___ arose. The people, who were seafaring traders, founded many city-states and colonies. | Med. Sea, Phoenicians |
| The civilizatioon of the ___ was conquered by the Babylonians and later by the Persians, led by ___. | King Cyrus I, Phoenicians |
| This military leader and peacemaker was the last great Egyptian pharaoh. | Ramses II |
| This ruler, known for encouraging the expansion of trade, took power during the New Kingdom to avoid having a child ruler. | Hatshepsut |
| These nomads used chariots to invade an Egypt that had been severly weakened and divided by war, etc. They ruled from 1640 to 1570. | Hyksos |
| This city, located south of Egypt near the Red Sea, was the home of kings as well as an important trade and iron manufacturing center. | Meroe |
| The non-Egyptian king overthrew the Libyan dynasty that ruled Egypt and upheld the Egyptian way of life. | Piankhi |
| This kingdom was long dominated by Egypt but emerged as a regional power after the Egyptian empire declined. They were ousted by the Assyrians. | Kush |
| These were regional govenors. | satraps |
| He was a prophet and religious reformer. | Zoroaster |
| The Babylonians and the Jews welcomed him as their conquerer. | Cyrus |
| He seized the Persian throne with the aid of an elite group of Persian soldiers. | Darius |
| He conquered Egypt and, despite his father's example, scorned its people's beliefs. | Cambyses |
| He established the manufacture and exchange of metal coins of standard value within the Persian Empire. | Darius |
| He established the Persian custom of honoring the traditions and beliefs of the peoples his armies conquered. | Cyrus |
| This is the philosophy that was adopted by Shi Huangdi. | Legalism |
| This is the group of rulers to which Shi Huangdi belonged. | Qin Dynasty |
| This is the type of government that was established by Shi Huangdi. | autocracy |
| He burned books and forced peasants to work on the Great Wall of China. | Shi Huangdi |
| This concept divides the world into powers that represent the natural rythms of life. | yin and yang |
| The teachings of this man, China's most influencial scholar, are found in the Analects. | Confucius |
| The followers of this philosophy were particularly drawn to the study of sciences such as astronomy and medicine. | Daoism |
| During the reign of Shi Huangdi, hundreds of followers of this philosophy were murdered for their belief. | Confucianism |
| Hindus believe that moksha is the good and bad deeds that a person engages in over one or more lifetimes. T or F | F |
| Hindus also believe that these good and bad deeds follow one's soul from one reincarnation to another. T or F | T |
| The circumstances of one's life are largely reflected by the class, or caste, into which one is born. T or F | F |
| The heightened state of understanding, which is available to anyone who pursues it long enough, is called illumination. T or F | F |
| The state of release from selfishness and pain that results from following the Eightfold Path is called nirvana? T or F | T |
| The Assyrian king responsible for the conguest and burning of Babylon was Ashurbanipal. T or F | F |
| The Chaldeans built an empire centered around Babylon. T or F | T |
| Sennacherib was a famous Assyrian prophet. T or F | F |
| Babylon was restored by Nebuchadnezzar. T or F | T |
| According to the Torah, the first covenant between God and the Hebrew people involved an agreement that___. | God would bless Abraham and his descendants, and they would be faithful. |
| Monotheism describes the Hebrews' belief-usual for the time-that their God was___. | the one and only God. |
| According to the Torah, the man who led the Hebrews out of slavery in Egypt and received the 10 Commandments was___. | Moses. |
| The man responsible for having a great temple built in Jerusalem, a temple that was later destroyed and rebuilt, was___. | Solomon. |
| The tribute paid by Israel and Judah to the Assyrians was an effort to___. | prevent an attack by the Assyrians on Israel and Judah. |
| In Buddhism, the release from selfishness and pain is known as ___. | nirvana. |
| The most sacred writings of the Jewish religion are the first five books of the Hebrew Bible known as the ___. | Torah. |
| Hinduism and Buddhism have a common belief in___. | reincarnation. |
| The Phoenicians contributed greatly to written communication by introducing the first use of ___. | phonetic symbols. |
| In Hebrew tradition, a covenant is___. | a mutal promise between God and humanity. |
| Essay: How were the Buddha's teachings similar and different from the Hindu tradition? | Look it up in your book. :) |
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