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A people from central Anatolia who established an empire in Anatolia and Syria in the Bronze Age. With wealth from the trade in metals and military power based on chariot forces, they vied with Néw kingdom Egypt for control of Syria Palestine before falling to un identified attack in 1200 BCE

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Hittes

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Queen of Egypt (r 1473-1458 BCE). She dispatched a naval expedition to punt(possibly northwest Sudan or Eritrea) the far away source for myrrh.

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Hatshepsut

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Egyptian pharaoh (r 1353-1335 BCE) he built a new capital at Amarna, forested a new style of naturalistic art, and created a religious revolution by imposing worship of the sun-disk

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Akhenaten

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A long lived ruler of New kingdom Egypt (r 1290-1224 BCE) he reached an accommodation with the Hittites of Anatolia after a standoff in a battle at Kadesh in Syria. He built on a grand scale throughout Egypt

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Ramesses II

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Prosperous civilization on the Aegean island of Crete in the second millennium BCE. THE _____ engaged in far flung commerce around the Mediterranean and exerted powerful cultural influences on the early Greek events

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Minoan

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Site of a fortified palace complex in southern Greece that controlled a Late Bronze Age kingdom. In homers epic poems, Mycenae was the base of King Agamemnon, who commanded the Greeks besieging Troy. Contemporary archaeologists call the complex Greek society of the second millennium BCE

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Mycenae

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A term used for burial sites of elite members of Mycenaean Greek society in the mid-second millennium BCE. At the boo tom of deep shafts lined the stone slabs, the bodies were laid out along with gold and bronze jewelry, implements, weapons, and masks.

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Shaft graves

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An empire extending from western Iran to Syria-Palestine, conquered by the Assyrians of northern Mesopotamia between the tenth and seventh centuries BCE. THEY used force and terror and exploited the wealth and labor of their subjects. They also preserved and continued the cultural and scientific developments of Mesopotamian civilization

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Neo-Assyrian Empire

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The forcible removal and relocation of large numbers of people or entire populations. The mass deportations practiced by the Assyrian and Persian Empires were meant as a terrifying warning of the consequences of rebellion. They also brought skilled and unskilled labor to the imperial center

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Mass deportation

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A large collection of writings drawn from the ancient literary, religious, and scientific traditions of Mesopotamia. It was assembled by the seventh-century BCE Assyrian ruler Ashurbanipal . The many tablets unearthed by archaeologists constitute one of of the most important sources of present day knowledge of the long literary tradition of Mesopotamia.

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Library of Ashurbanipal

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In antiquity, the land between the eastern shore of the Mediterranean and the Jordan river, occupied by the Israelites from the early second millennium BCE. The modern state of Israel was founded I’m 1948

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Israel

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A collection or sacred books containing diverse materials concerning the origins, experiences, beliefs, and practices of the Israelites. Most of the extant was complied by members of the priestly class in the fifth century BCE and reflects the concerns and views of this group

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Hebrew bible

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A monumental sanctuary built in Jerusalem by King Solomon in the tenth century BCE, to be the religious center for the Israelite god Yahweh. The temple priesthood conducted sacrifices, received a tithe or percentage of agricultural revenues, and became economically and politically powerful

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First temple

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Belief in the existence of a single divine entity

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Monotheism

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Greek word meaning, “dispersal” used to communicates of a given ethnic group living outside thier homeland. Jews, for example spread from Israel to Western Asia and Mediterranean lands in antiquity and today can be found throughout the world

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Diaspora

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Semitic speaking Canaanites living on the coast of modern Lebanon and Syria in the first millennium BCE. From major cities such as tyre and Sidon, Phoenician merchants and sailors explored the Mediterranean, engaged in widespread commerce, and founded Carthage and other colonies in the western Mediterranean

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Phoenicians

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City located in present-day Tunisia, founded by Phoenicians ca.800 BCE it became a major commercial center and naval power in the western Mediterranean until defeated by Rome on the third century BCE.

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Carthage

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Under the Chaldeans (nomadic kinship groups that settled in southern Mesopotamia in the early first millennium BCE) a Babylonian again became a major political and cultural center in the seventh and sixth centuries BCE. After participating in the destructions of Assyrian power,the monarchs Nabopolasser And Nebuchadnezzar took over the southern portion of Assyrian domains.

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Neo-Babylonian kingdom