4.1-4.4 Vocabulary Crossword

2. Kushite king who, in 1751 B.C., overthrew the Libyan dynasty.
4. A trained civil service that runs the government by procedure.
8. I The successor to Cambyses.
10. She was one of the rulers of the New Kingdom who declared herself pharaoh because her stepson, who was heir to the throne, was a young child.
12. He is known to have collected more than 20,000 stone tablets from throughout the fertile crescent, including the "Epic of Gilgamesh.”
15. A region of Africa that straddles the upper Nile River.
17. A government in which the ruler has unlimited power and uses it arbitrarily.
18. A Southwest-Asian people who helped to destroy the Assyrian Empire.
19. He was a Persian king who began conquering neighboring kingdoms from 550 to 539 B.C.
20. Asiatic invaders who ruled Egypt from about 1640 to 1570 B.C.
22. A book of oracles intended to solve ethical or practical problems.

1. The founder of Daoism.
3. The Chaldean king who restored Babylon after it was conquered.
5. A Nubian kingdom that was dominated for centuries by Egypt.
6. He taught that the Earth is a battleground for the great struggle between good and evil.
7. The capital of Assyria.
9. A southwest Asian kingdom that controlled a large empire from about 850 to 612 B.C.
11. He was the son of Cyrus who conquered Egypt but had a very short reign.
13. Governors who rule locally, provincially, within the Persian Empire.
14. The pharaoh who, among other things, made a treaty w/ Hittites promising peace & brotherhood forever.
16. China's most influential scholar and teacher of moral character.
21. Chinese political philosophy that rests on the view that a highly efficient and powerful government is key to maintaining order.