History Vocab

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  1. 3. Road in the Persian Empire, stretching over 1600 miles from Susa in Persia to Sardis in Anatolia
  2. 4. Respect for one’s parents and ancestors
  3. 8. Hatshepsut’s stepson; expands Nubian empire by invading Palestine, Syria, and Nubia
  4. 10. Persian king who began to conquer several neighboring kingdoms in the year 550 BC; honored his conquered civilizations’ religions and customs
  5. 14. China’s most influential scholar; born in 551 BC and had a deep desire to maintain peace and harmony through the use of respect for others and for themselves
  6. 15. Region around the upper Nile; original home to the Kushites
  7. 17. Assyrian king who bragged that he destroyed 89 cities and 820 villages, burned Babylon, and ordered most of its inhabitants killed
  8. 19. Pharoah whose reign most noted for her trade expeditions, not war
  9. 21. Southwest Asian kingdom that controlled a large empire from about 850 to 612 BC
  10. 22. Pharaoh who made a treaty between him and the Hittite king to provide peace for both their people; built great palaces and magnificent temples
  11. 25. King Cyrus’s son who expanded the Persian empire by conquering Egypt; did not honor other civilizations’ religions and customs
  12. 27. Ancient Nubian kingdom whose rulers controlled Egypt between 2000 and 1000 BC
  13. 28. Kushite king who overthrew the Libyan dynasty and started Egypt’s 25th dynasty
  14. 29. The belief that the law was the answer to resolving problems in China’s society
  15. 30. Center of the Kush dynasty from about 250 BC to AD 150; known for its manufacture of iron weapons and tools
Down
  1. 1. Chaldean king who restored Babylon
  2. 2. Short-lived Chinese dynasty that replaced the Zhou Dynasty in the third century BC
  3. 5. a government that has unlimited power and uses it in an arbitrary manner
  4. 6. Group of nomadic invaders from Southwest Asia who ruled Egypt from 1640 to 1570 BC
  5. 7. 2 powers that together represented the natural rhythms of life
  6. 9. Noble of the ruling dynasty in Persia who seized the throne after Cambyses and brought order to the empire; conquered parts of India and Afghanistan
  7. 10. Southwest Asian people who helped to destroy the Assyrian empire; home to Abraham, as he come from Ur of the __________
  8. 11. Persian prophet who developed the religion of Zoroastrianism to answer the question as to why there is so much suffering on Earth
  9. 12. Trained civil service
  10. 13. Assyria’s capital established by Sennacherib; sits along the Tigris River
  11. 16. A governor of a province in the Persian empire
  12. 18. Search for knowledge and understanding of nature; nothing human-made/needed matters; only natural relations do
  13. 20. Period of ancient Egyptian history that followed the overthrow of the Hyksos rulers, lasting from about 1570 to 1705 BC
  14. 23. Ruler of the Qin Dynasty who eliminated internal strife and began to conquer neighboring lands; name means “First Emperor”
  15. 24. Assyrian king who built one of the world’s largest library, which included more than 20000 clay tablets from throughout the Fertile Crescent
  16. 26. Southwest Asian people who helped destroy the Assyrian empire