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aristocracy

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government - power in hands of ruling family

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autocracy

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government - ruler has all power

3
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Bronze Age

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period where people used bronze to make tools and weapons

4
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bureaucracy

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system of departments and agencies formed to carry out work of government

5
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Chaldeans

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a Southwest Asian people who helped destroy the Assyrian Empire

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Daoism

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a philosophy - Chinese thinker Laozi - people should be guided by a universal force called the Dao Way

7
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democracy

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government - people have power

8
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empire

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a political unit in which peoples or countries are ruled by one ruler

9
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Hittites

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an Indo-European group who settled in Anatolia

10
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Hyskos

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a group of nomadic invaders from Southwest Asia who ruled Egypt

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I Ching

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a religious image used by Eastern Christians

12
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legalism

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an efficient and powerful government = the key to social order

13
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Medes

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a Southwest Asian people who helped to destroy the Assyrian Empire

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Minoans

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a seafaring and trading people that lived on the island of Crete

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Mycenaean

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an Indo-European person who settled on the Greek mainland

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myth

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a traditional story about gods, ancestors, or heroes

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New Kingdom

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the period of ancient Egyptian history that followed the overthrow of the Hyksos rulers

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oligarchy

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government - power in hands of few people

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Phoenicians

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seafaring people that lived in Southwest Asia traded with colonies in Mediterranean region

20
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Qin Dynasty

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a short-lived Chinese dynasty that replaced the Zhou Dynasty

21
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Royal Road

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a road in the Persian Empire

22
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satrap

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a governor of a province in the Persain Empire

23
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tribute

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a payment made by a weaker power to a stronger power

24
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tyrant

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powerful individual who gained control of a city-state’s government by appealing to the poor for support

25
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yin and yang

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in Chinese thought, the two powers that govern the natural rhythms of life

26
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Knossos

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Minoan city capital

27
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King Minos

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Minoan king; owned the Minotaur

28
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Hatshepsut

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female ruler of the New Kingdom in Egypt

29
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Thutmose III

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Hatshepsut’s son; warlike ruler

30
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Nubia

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a region in Africa near Upper Egypt

31
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Piankhi

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a Kushite king who overthrew the Libyan dynasty

32
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Sennacherib

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Assyrian king; said he destroyed 89 cities and 820 cites on his own

33
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Darius

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Cambyses’s successor; seized throne wih help of elite soldier group (Ten Thousand Immortals)

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Cambyses

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Cyrus’s son; expanded Persain Empire by conquering Egypt

35
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Confucius

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China’s most influential scholar; Confucianism

36
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Homer

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storyteller who composed epics (The Illiad and The Odessey)

37
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Trojan War

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ten year war between Greeks and Trojans

38
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Theocracy

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government = power in hands of the gods