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after the death of solomon, first 2 kings of divided kingdom of Judah and Israel
rehoboam and jeroboam
king of israel forced to pay tribute to Assyrian King shalmanesar III
Jehu
Son of Esarhaddon appointed as King of Babylonia who rose against assyria and was eventually crushed by his own brother assurbanipal
Shamash-shum-ukin
Chaldean Ruler of Babylonia in the late 8th century
Marduk-apla-iddina
Babylonian King who took Jerusalem at the beginning of the 6th century and who kept the city of Tyre under siege for 13 years
Nebuchadnezzar II
Median King who entered a treaty with nabopolassar to fight the assyrians together
cyaxares
Last king of Babylon before Cyrus II conquered it in 539
nabonidus
achaemenid king whose navy and infantry were defeated at salamis(480) and Plataea (479) respectively
Xerxes
names of 3 egyptian kings of Dynasty IV for whome the pyramids of Giza were built
Khufu, Khafre, Mankaure
Foreign Group that ruled Egypt during the second intermediate period (Dynasty XV)
Hyksos
Woman who ruled egypt during dynasty XII, in the Middle Kingdom
Sobeknefru
woman who ruled egypt during dynasty XVIII in the New Kingdom
Hatshepsut
Name of Akhenaten’s wife
Nefertari
site in a mining area in the sinai, at which a strong northwest semitic presence can be detected (graffitti included) during the middle kingdom
Serabit el-Khadim
Famous Egyptian city inhabited by craftsmen and artists during the New Kingdom, at which a number of administrative & economic ostraca and papyri have been found
deir el-Medina
Site on the island of Thera, in the Cyclades famous for it’s frescoes dating to the Minoan Period
Akrotiri
German excavator who found Troy and dug at Mycenae
Schliemann
English archaeologist who excavated Knossos and gave its name to the Minoan Period
Evans
Script in which the first text in the Greek language are preserved
Linear B
Three main cities in Continental Greece during the mycenaen period
mycenae, pylos, & Thebes
Spartan assembly that consisted of 30 elders, including 2 kings
gerousia
term used to refer to the serfs of the spartan state (e.g. the population of Messenia)
helots
athenian politician under whose aegis the parthenon was built
Pericles
Spartan general who invaded Attica in 431, during the first phase of the Peloponnnesian War
Archidamus
Athenian Politician who proposed the annihilate the whole male pop. of Mytilene (in Lesbos) after their revolt in 428
Cleon
Sicilian City that was a target of a disastrous Athenian Naval Expedition in 415-413
Syracuse
Persian king against whom his brother Cyrus organized the expedition of the so-called “Ten Thousand”
Artaxerxes II
Greek historian who wrote a famous account of the Peloponnesian War
Thucydides
Greek historian who participated in and then wrote about the expedition of the so-called “Ten Thousand” organized by Cyrus
Xenophon
Final Battle of the Peloponnesian war in which the Athenian fleet was destroyed in 405
Aegospotami
Battle in which Philip II of Macedonia defeated an alliance of theban and athenian forces
Chareonea
Orator who advocated the Athenian opposition against Philip II of Macedonia-
Demostenes
Name of the Spear used by the Macedonian Phalanx formation
sarissa
Theban general who commande the Boeotian League at battles Leuctra (371) and Mantinaea (362) and put an end to spartan supremacy in Greece
Epaminondas
League created by Philip II of Macedonia which established a federation of Greek States
LEague of Corinth
Before the final battle of Gaugamela (331) this is the battle in 333 where Alexander defeated Darius III and began his final assault on the Achaemenid Empire
Issus
Dynast of Macedonian Origin that ruled Egypt after Alexander’s death up to the Roman conquest
Ptolemaic dynasty
Tell- Ad-daba’a
Avaris
Croessus
Lydia
Achilles
Patroclus
Zeus
Ganymede
Hector
Andromache
Thera
Santorini
Lycrugus
Sparta
Pindar
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