chapter 4 vocab

1. Huandgi Means “First Emperor”
5. A Southwest Asian people who helped to destroy the Assyrian empire
7. II Made an alliance with a Hittite king, later made a treaty that promised “peace and brotherhood between them forever”
10. A group of nomadic invaders from Southwest Asia who ruled Egypt from 1640 to 1570 B.C.
13. A governor of a province in the Persian Empire
14. Cambyses’s successor, a noble of the ruling dynasty, had began his career as a member of the king’s bodyguard
16. China’s most influential scholar, lived when the Zhou dynasty declined, led a scholarly life, studying and teaching history, music, and moral character
17. A system of departments and agencies formed to carry out the work of the government
22. A government in which the ruler has ultimate power and uses it in an arbitrary manner
24. Chaldean king that restored the city
26. Kingdom The period of ancient Egyptian history that followed the overthrow of the Hyksos rulers, lasting from about 1570 B.C. to 1075 B.C.
27. Center of the Kush dynasty from about 250 B.C. to A.D. 150; known for its manufacture of iron weapons and tools
29. A Chinese political philosophy based in the idea that a highly efficient and powerful government is the key to social order.

2. Declared herself Pharaoh around 1472 B.C., took over because her stepson, rightful pharaoh, was just a young child at the time
3. A region of Africa that straddled the upper Nile River
4. Collected more than 20,000 clay tablets from throughout the Fertile Crescent
6. A Southwest Asian kingdom that controlled a large empire from about 850 to 612 B.C.
8. Persia’s king, began to conquer several neighboring kingdoms
9. A Southwest Asian people who helped to destroy the Assyrian empire
11. Bragged that he destroyed 89 cities and 820 villages, burned Babylon, and ordered most of its inhabitants killed
12. Piety Respect shown by children for their parents and owners
15. A Persian prophet who lived around 600 B.C., offered an answer of a basic world question
18. III Warlike ruler, possibly murdered Hatshepsut
19. A philosophy based on the ideas of the Chinese thinker Laozi, who taught that people should be guide by a universal force called the Dao
20. An ancient Nubian kingdom whose rulers controlled Egypt between 2000 and 1000 B.C.
21. Road A road in the Persian empire, stretching over 1,600 miles from Susa in Persia to Sardis in Anatolia
23. and Yang In Chinese thought, the two powers that govern the natural rhythm of life
25. Named after Cyrus’s father, expanded the Persian Empire by conquering Egypt
26. Assyria’s capital
28. Overthrew the Libyan dynasty that had ruled Egypt for over 200 years