Chapter 4 Definitions Flashcards
A people from central Anatolia who established an empire in Anatolia and Syria in the Bronze Age. With wealth from the trade in metals and military power based on chariot forces, they vied with Néw kingdom Egypt for control of Syria Palestine before falling to un identified attack in 1200 BCE
Hittes
Queen of Egypt (r 1473-1458 BCE). She dispatched a naval expedition to punt(possibly northwest Sudan or Eritrea) the far away source for myrrh.
Hatshepsut
Egyptian pharaoh (r 1353-1335 BCE) he built a new capital at Amarna, forested a new style of naturalistic art, and created a religious revolution by imposing worship of the sun-disk
Akhenaten
A long lived ruler of New kingdom Egypt (r 1290-1224 BCE) he reached an accommodation with the Hittites of Anatolia after a standoff in a battle at Kadesh in Syria. He built on a grand scale throughout Egypt
Ramesses II
Prosperous civilization on the Aegean island of Crete in the second millennium BCE. THE _____ engaged in far flung commerce around the Mediterranean and exerted powerful cultural influences on the early Greek events
Minoan
Site of a fortified palace complex in southern Greece that controlled a Late Bronze Age kingdom. In homers epic poems, Mycenae was the base of King Agamemnon, who commanded the Greeks besieging Troy. Contemporary archaeologists call the complex Greek society of the second millennium BCE
Mycenae
A term used for burial sites of elite members of Mycenaean Greek society in the mid-second millennium BCE. At the boo tom of deep shafts lined the stone slabs, the bodies were laid out along with gold and bronze jewelry, implements, weapons, and masks.
Shaft graves
An empire extending from western Iran to Syria-Palestine, conquered by the Assyrians of northern Mesopotamia between the tenth and seventh centuries BCE. THEY used force and terror and exploited the wealth and labor of their subjects. They also preserved and continued the cultural and scientific developments of Mesopotamian civilization
Neo-Assyrian Empire
The forcible removal and relocation of large numbers of people or entire populations. The mass deportations practiced by the Assyrian and Persian Empires were meant as a terrifying warning of the consequences of rebellion. They also brought skilled and unskilled labor to the imperial center
Mass deportation
A large collection of writings drawn from the ancient literary, religious, and scientific traditions of Mesopotamia. It was assembled by the seventh-century BCE Assyrian ruler Ashurbanipal . The many tablets unearthed by archaeologists constitute one of of the most important sources of present day knowledge of the long literary tradition of Mesopotamia.
Library of Ashurbanipal
In antiquity, the land between the eastern shore of the Mediterranean and the Jordan river, occupied by the Israelites from the early second millennium BCE. The modern state of Israel was founded I’m 1948
Israel
A collection or sacred books containing diverse materials concerning the origins, experiences, beliefs, and practices of the Israelites. Most of the extant was complied by members of the priestly class in the fifth century BCE and reflects the concerns and views of this group
Hebrew bible
A monumental sanctuary built in Jerusalem by King Solomon in the tenth century BCE, to be the religious center for the Israelite god Yahweh. The temple priesthood conducted sacrifices, received a tithe or percentage of agricultural revenues, and became economically and politically powerful
First temple
Belief in the existence of a single divine entity
Monotheism
Greek word meaning, “dispersal” used to communicates of a given ethnic group living outside thier homeland. Jews, for example spread from Israel to Western Asia and Mediterranean lands in antiquity and today can be found throughout the world
Diaspora
