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- 3. a carriage without wheels that carried servants
- 6. was the ruler of ancient Assyria at the height of Assyrian military and cultural accomplishments
- 7. groups of traveling merchants
- 8. was the founder of the Achaemenid Empire. Under his rule, the empire embraced all the previous civilized states of the ancient Near East, expanded vastly and eventually conquered most of Southwest Asia and much of Central Asia and the Caucasus.
- 9. Language used by Middle Eastern merchants
- 11. territories ruled by a single ruler or nation
- 14. people who collect, study and explain facts about the heavenly bodies
- 15. Developed system of smelting
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- 1. Assyrian Capital
- 2. ancient Iranian-speaking prophet whose teachings and innovations on the religious traditions of ancient Iranian-speaking peoples developed into the religion of Zoroastrianism, which by some accounts was the first world religion. He inaugurated a movement that eventually became the dominant religion in Ancient Persia
- 4. 1125–1104 BC, He ruled for 22 years and was the most prominent monarch of this dynasty Extended the empire to Syria and Palestine..
- 5. meaning the land of Aryans- modern Persians are Iranians
- 10. was the third king of the Persian Achaemenid Empire. Also called Darius the Great, he ruled the empire at its peak, when it included much of West Asia, the Caucasus, parts of the Balkans most of the Black Sea coastal regions, parts of the North Caucasus, Central Asia, as far as the Indus Valley in the far east, and portions of north and northeast Africa including Egypt
- 12. political districts
- 13. heated iron ore – hammered out the impurities and rapidly cooled the metal