The Empires of Egypt and Nubia Collide
An ancient Nubian kingdom whose rulers controlled Egypt from 751 to 671 B.C. ...
Answer: Kush.
The ancient capital of Assyria: its ruins are opposite Mosul, on the Tigris river, in N Iraq ...
Answer: Nineveh.
King of Persia, 558?-529 B.C.; founder of the Persian Empire ...
Answer: Cyrus the Great.
A short-lived Chinese dynasty that replaced the Zhou Dynasty in the third century B.C. ...
Answer: Qin Dynasty.
Egyptian queen and pharaoh, sixth ruler of the 18th Dynasty of Egypt, c. 1479-c. 1458 B.C. ...
Answer: Hatshepsut.
King of Assyria, 705-681 B.C. ...
Answer: Sennacherib.
A road in the Persian Empire, stretching over 1,600 miles from Susa in Persia to Sardis in Anatolia ...
Answer: Royal Road.
A philosophy based on the ideas of the Chinese thinker Laozi, who taught that people should be guided by a universal force called the Dao (Way) ...
Answer: Daoism.
The period of ancient Egyptian history that followed the overthrow of the Hyksos rulers, lasting from about 1570 to 1075 B.C. ...
Answer: New Kingdom
A king of Babylonia, 604?-561? B.C., and conqueror of Jerusalem ...
Answer: Nebuchadnezzar.
A governor of a province in the Persian Empire ...
Answer: satrap.
Chinese philosopher and teacher of principles of conduct. His highest standards of conduct were treating others as you wish to be treated, loyalty, intelligence, and the fullest development of the individual in the five chief relationships of life: ruler and subject, father and son, elder and younger brother, husband and wife, friend and friend ...
Answer: Confucius.
Fifth Egyptian pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty of Egypt, 1479-1425 B.C. ...
Answer: Thutmose III.
A Southwest Asian people who helped to destroy the Assyrian Empire ...
Answer: Chaldeans.
King of Persia, 521-486? B.C. ...
Answer: Darius the Great.
First emperor of China, 221-210 B.C. ...
Answer: Shi Huangdi (or Qin Shi Huang).
A region in what is now S Egypt and the Sudan N of Khartoum, extending from the Nile to the Red Sea ...
Answer: Nubia.
King of Assyria, 668?-626? B.C. ...
Answer: Ashurbanipal.
Persian religious teacher ...
Answer: Zoroaster.
A Chinese political philosophy based on the idea that a highly efficient and powerful government is the key to social order ...
Answer: Legalism.