History Chapter 3 review
Everything is from the book, and only the book so if there is more info, please add it. And good luck I hope you don't fail, have to leave randolph, live on the street, and die because no one would take mercy on your soul and spare a dime so you could eat. GOOD LUCK!!!
And read the book to get all the facts, this is just some of the most important.
And read the book to get all the facts, this is just some of the most important.
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- Assyrians
- Would kill and torture thousands of captives
- Canaan
- Made of modern day Lebanon, Israel, and Jordan
- Battering Rams
- Used by Assyrians to get through enemies' walls.
- Chaldeans
- Lived in Babylon, formed an alliance with Medes, which captured Nineveh and destroyed the Assyrian empire in 612 B.C.
- Israelites
- Lived in Canaan
- Torah
- The first five books in the bible: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy
- Farming
- The only land for the Phoenicians is inbetween western Syria and the Meditteranian Sea, which was used for
- Diaspora
- Greek word meaning "scattered"
- Lydians
- Had developed a wealthy and independent kingdom with gold deposites by the late 600 B.C's.
- Assyrian kings
- Governed an empire stretching from the Persian Gulf to Egypt, to Asian Minor.
- Confederation
- Loose Union of independent city-states
- Persepolis
- The most magnificent city in the Persian empire.
- Satraps
- Provincial governors.
- Yahweh
- The name of the God that the Israelites worshipped.
- Assyrians
- Were considered to be the most lethal fighters, with foot soldiers, chariots, slodiers on horseback.
- Hittites
- Captured the Asian Minor at around 2000 B.C came from areas beyond the Black sea.
- Persians
- Captured Babylon and the rest of the Chaldean Empire.
- Political weakness
- This was a weakness for the Aramaeans
- Covenant
- The agreement made by God to Abraham.
- David
- Fought Goliath on behalf of Saul and took the throne in 1012 B.C.
- Nineveh
- The Assyrian capital
- Darius 1
- The best organizer among the persian kings that reigned from 522 B.C to 486 B.C.
- Colonies
- A system of settlements for trading
- Alphabet
- A series of written symbols that represent sounds
- Exodus
- Departure.
- Barter
- Exchanging of wares and goods.
- Jews
- A series of prophets that arose among the Israelites.
- Lydians
- Lived in the Asia Minor
- Solomon
- David's son who succeeded him in 961 B.C.
- Phoenicians
- Migrated from the Arabian peninsula around 3000 B.C and settled in northern Canaan
- Jacob
- Abraham's son.
- Abraham
- A herder and trader who lived in Ur.
- Cambyses
- Conquered Egypt, bringing middle east under Persian control, he was the son of Cyprus.
- Prophet
- Holy messengers
- 22
- The number of characters in the Phoenicians' alphabet
- Aramaic
- The main language used in the Fertile Crescent until A.D 800
- Judaism, Christianity, Islam
- The three religions that were taught by the Israelites.
- Deborah
- A judge widley admired for her wisdom, who also planned an attack on Cannanite.
- Aramaeans settled in
- Syria around 1200 B.C
- Hittie Empire
- Spread the Asian Minor, Syria, and part of Mesopotamia, lasted until about 1200 B.C.
- Persians
- Conquered the Chaldeans in 539 B.C.
- Zoroaster
- A prophet that began to call for reform in the Persian Empire in 570 B.C.
- Nebuchadnezzar
- One of the Chaldeans most powerful leaders. Lead from 605 B.C tp 562 B.C.
- Assyrians
- Lived in northern Mesopotamia-were able to rebel against western attacks by about 900 B.C.
- Chaldeans
- Gained contol of Judah in 586 B.C.
- Moses
- Lead people out of Egypt in an exodus, into the Sinai Desert, to escape slavery.
- Tyre, Byblos, Sidon, Berytus
- The main city-states built by the Phoneicians along their coast by 1200 B.C
- Monotheism
- The belief that there is only one God who commands prophets.
- Babylon
- The Hitties captured this city in about 1595 B.C.
- Hitties
- First to weild iron weapons.
- Hattusas
- The Hitties capital.
- Cyrus
- Developed a strong army and cunquered the Medes in the 540's B.C.
- Egypt and Mesopotamia
- Hitties borrowed most of their culture ideas from.
- Babylon
- Chaldean capital city
- Hittites
- Had built a well organized kingdom by 1650 B.C.
- Phoenicinas traded
- Items such as cedar logs, textiles dyed purple, glass objects, jewelry, metal.
- Hammurabi
- The Empire of of 1700's B.C.
- Aramaeans and Phoenicians
- These two groups of people lived near the Fertile Cresent area who shared their culture, sailed, and traded; trading brought languages, goods, and ideas
- Southern coast of Spain, Western coast of Africa
- Were reached by the Phonecians by 1100 B.C