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Aknatun
Egyptian king who threw out the old religion and replaced it with Re (a disk god)
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Tutankhamen
overturned his dad's religion and before he can really do anything he dies.
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Hyksos
nomads who invaded and ruled Egypt from 1640 to 1570 BC
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New kingdom
the third period of Egyptian glory that lasted from 1550 to 1086 BC
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Hatshepsut
the first "queen" of Egypt who encouraged trade over war
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Thutmose 3
beleived to have murdured H. who died 1425 Egypts greatest warrior
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Nubia
a region of suthern Africa strattled by the upper nile
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Rhamses 2
One of the best pharohs, build abu simbel, fought the Hittites at Kadesh, buired at KV 5
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Aswan dam
was going to flood abu simbel
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Kadesh
battle vs Hittites, draw and peace treaty
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Assyria
850 to 612 BC empire that controlled that ancient world due to latter's, siege towers, training, tactics and tunnels.
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Sennacherib
an Assyrian king who was ruthless and allegedly sacked 89 cities and 820 villages and burned Babylon.
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Nineveh
Assyria's new capital after the burning of babylon
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Ashurbanipal
a king who could read several languages and collected 25000 clay tables
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Mededs/ Chaldeans
two armys combined in 612 and leveled nineveh
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Nebuchadnezzar
a cheldean king who restored babylon and made the hanging gardens.
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Cyrus
a Persian king who in 550 BC began conquest in Iran and extended the Persian Empire from the Indus river to Anatolia he ruled with tolerance.
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Cambyses
Cyrus' son who conquered Egypt and was the polar opposite of his father, he was murdered in 537 BC
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Satrap
a local ruler (20)
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Zoroaster
good and bad forces fighting for soul
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Confucius
- an influentual scholar who was born in 551 BC and tought that order could be restored 5 relation ships,
- ruler subject, husband wife, orlder and younger brother, friend and friend.
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filial piety
respect for parents and elders
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Daoism
philosophy taught by Latoli that teaches people should be guided by dao (way)
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Legalism
people who taought that rulers should provide rewards for good deeds and harsh punishments
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I Ching
thing used for ethical problems
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Yin & Yang
two powers together that representd the natural rythem of life
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Qin Dynasty
13 year old D
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Shi Huangdi
"first emporor" eho began his reighn halting battles killed all confuisms and tried to implement leaglism
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Autocracy
a goverment in which the ruler has unlimited power and uses it in an abituary way
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Direct Democracy
a form of government in which citizens rule directly and not representatively
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classical art
the art of ancient Greece and Rome which emphasized harmony, order and balance
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tragedy,
- a serious form of drama that is about the downfall of a heroic or noble character
- Aeschylus, sophocles euripides
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Arete
Greek example of life
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Comedy
- a humorous form of drama that often includes the slapstick and satire
- three writers
- aristophanes
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Peloponnesian war
a war lasting from 4312 to 404 BC in which Athens and its allies were defeated by Sparta and its allies.
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Philosophers
thinker who used logic and reason to investigate the nature of the universe, human society, and morality.
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Socrates
469-399 absolute standards for truth and justice
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Aristotle
384-322 Lyceum Alex the great
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Draco's code
a strict code that said that anyone who could not pay off depts would be a slave
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Pisistratus
546, first tyrant, took money from rich for poor.
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Solon
instituted economic and political reforms but no land
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Hippias
son of Pisistratus who snapped and started killing aristocrats and brought in the spartans.
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Cleisthenes
took and balanced land between poor and rich "father of democracy"
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Ostraca
process by which Athenians expelled people.
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Miletus
city state started the Persian war
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Miltiades
brang the fight to marathon bay and defeated the Persians.
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Themistocles,
a general that convinced Athens to make a big navy to protect trade routes.
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Xerxes
king of Persia during the Persian war
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Philip 2
the king of macedonia form 359 to 336
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