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Chapter 3
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History
10th Grade
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Iron Age
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Age when iorn was made use of from 1100 BC to 200 AD
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Hittites
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A people living in north-central Turkey around the 18th century BC
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Hatshepsut
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the fifth pharaoh of Ancient Egypt
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Akhenaten
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a Pharaoh of the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt who ruled for 17 years popularized monothesiam
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Ramesses II
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Ramesses the Great, most celebrated, and most powerful pharaoh of the Egyptian Empire
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Minoan
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a bronze-aged civilization that arose on the island of Crete
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Mycenae
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a military stronghold which dominated much of southern Greece
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shaft graves
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a type of burial structure formed from a deep and narrow shaft sunk into natural rock
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Linear B
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a syllabic script that was the erlest know form of Greece
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Neo-Assyrian Empire
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an empire in Mesopotamian history
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mass deportation
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A mass exotus forced by the government
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Library of Ashurbanipal
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a collection of thousands of clay tablets and fragments containing texts of all kinds from the 7th century BC in the Neo-Assyrian Empire
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Israel
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A country on the east cost of the isrel cost
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Hebrew Bible
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the Tanakh a collection of jewish texts
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First Temple
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Solomon's Temple a very holey place for jews
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monotheism
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The act of observing a single god
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Diaspora
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mass-dispersions of people
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Phoenicians
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an ancient Semitic Canaanite civilization situated on the western, coastal part of the Fertile Crescent
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Carthage
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centre of the Carthaginian Empire
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Neo-Babylonian kingdom
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a period of Mesopotamian history which began in 626 BC and ended in 539 BC
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