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ancientworld on October 4, 2012
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 hatshepsut | woman pharaoh |
| Ramses II | peace treaty with the Hitties |
| Kushites ` | from nabia |
| Assyria | empire took over mesopotamia |
| seenacherib | king of assyria |
| Nineveh | capital n assyria on the tigris |
| Ashurbanipal | king of assyria |
| Medes and Chaldean | armies that conquered assyria or nineveh |
| Nebuchadnexxar | chaldean king |
| persia | an empire that take over the middle east |
| cyrus | king of persia, military genius |
| darius | cyrus's grandson who brought stability to persia |
| satrap | kings reps that governed the provinces-king's eyes and ears |
| royal road | road in persian, unifies kingdom and allowed for trade and cultural diffusion. |
| zoroaster | persian prophet believed in a fight against good and evil |
| confucious | chinese philosopher |
| filial piety | devotion your parents q |
| bureaucracy | hiring people to be government workers |
| daoism | belief in nature |
| legalism | chinese philosophy- do what you are supposed or get punished |
| yin and yang | balance of opposites |
| Qin dynasty | first unified dynasty in china |
| the great wall | built to protect china during the qin dynasty |
| autocracy | a government where the ruler has unlimited power |
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