World History CH 4 vocabulary

5. Is Chinese political philosophy based on the idea that highly efficient and powerful government is the key to social order
9. Region of Africa that straddled the upper Nile river
10. Southwest Asian kingdom that controlled a large Empire from about 8:50 to 612BC
13. Assyrian King who bragged that he burned Babylon and ordered most of its inhabitants killed
17. Southwest Asian people who help destroy the Assyrian Empire
19. Persian king who founded an Empire that spanned over 2000 miles
21. A Persian prophet and religious reformer who lived around 600 BC
22. He prided himself on his ability to read in several languages
24. Ruled Egypt from 1640 to 1570BC
27. She declared herself pharaoh around 1472BC
28. II Hittite King that promised “peace and brotherhood between us forever”
30. A noble of the ruling dynasty that began his career as a member of the king’s bodyguard
31. III Warlike ruler, Hatshepsut's stepson

1. Kushite King Who led an army down the Nile and overthrew the Libyan Dynasty that had ruled for over 200 years
2. Ruler who extended the Persian Empire by conquering Egypt
3. Chaldean King who restored Babylon
4. and Yang 2 powers that together represented the natural rhythm of life
6. Dynasty A short lived dynasty that replaced the Zhou Dynasty in the 3rd century BC
7. China's most influential scholar
8. piety Respect shown by children for their parents and elders
11. Huangdi Name which means 1st emperor
12. Ancient Iranian people
14. Assyrian capital along the Tigris river
15. Is a system of departments and agencies formed to carry out the work of the government
16. Government in which the ruler has unlimited power and uses it in an arbitrary manner
18. Philosophy based on ideas that people should be guided by a universal force
20. A governor who ruled locally
23. Road A road stretching over 1600 miles from Susa and Persia to Sardis in Anatolia
25. kingdom Period of ancient Egyptian history that followed the overthrow of the Hyksos rulers
26. Nubian kingdom whose rulers controlled Egypt from 751 to 671BC
29. Ancient kingdom of Kush