aristocracy
government - power in hands of ruling family
autocracy
government - ruler has all power
Bronze Age
period where people used bronze to make tools and weapons
bureaucracy
system of departments and agencies formed to carry out work of government
Chaldeans
a Southwest Asian people who helped destroy the Assyrian Empire
Daoism
a philosophy - Chinese thinker Laozi - people should be guided by a universal force called the Dao Way
democracy
government - people have power
empire
a political unit in which peoples or countries are ruled by one ruler
Hittites
an Indo-European group who settled in Anatolia
Hyskos
a group of nomadic invaders from Southwest Asia who ruled Egypt
I Ching
a religious image used by Eastern Christians
legalism
an efficient and powerful government = the key to social order
Medes
a Southwest Asian people who helped to destroy the Assyrian Empire
Minoans
a seafaring and trading people that lived on the island of Crete
Mycenaean
an Indo-European person who settled on the Greek mainland
myth
a traditional story about gods, ancestors, or heroes
New Kingdom
the period of ancient Egyptian history that followed the overthrow of the Hyksos rulers
oligarchy
government - power in hands of few people
Phoenicians
seafaring people that lived in Southwest Asia traded with colonies in Mediterranean region
Qin Dynasty
a short-lived Chinese dynasty that replaced the Zhou Dynasty
Royal Road
a road in the Persian Empire
satrap
a governor of a province in the Persain Empire
tribute
a payment made by a weaker power to a stronger power
tyrant
powerful individual who gained control of a city-state’s government by appealing to the poor for support
yin and yang
in Chinese thought, the two powers that govern the natural rhythms of life
Knossos
Minoan city capital
King Minos
Minoan king; owned the Minotaur
Hatshepsut
female ruler of the New Kingdom in Egypt
Thutmose III
Hatshepsut’s son; warlike ruler
Nubia
a region in Africa near Upper Egypt
Piankhi
a Kushite king who overthrew the Libyan dynasty
Sennacherib
Assyrian king; said he destroyed 89 cities and 820 cites on his own
Darius
Cambyses’s successor; seized throne wih help of elite soldier group (Ten Thousand Immortals)
Cambyses
Cyrus’s son; expanded Persain Empire by conquering Egypt
Confucius
China’s most influential scholar; Confucianism
Homer
storyteller who composed epics (The Illiad and The Odessey)
Trojan War
ten year war between Greeks and Trojans
Theocracy
government = power in hands of the gods