| A | B |
|---|
| Phoenicians | alphabet, traders, and shipbuilders |
| barter | form of trade, people exchange goods and services without using money |
| Hebrews | Group of people First Monotheists |
| Monotheism | belief in one God |
| Covenant | promise or agreement |
| Exodus | Moses led Hebrews out of Egypt |
| Hittites | iron and chariots |
| Assyrians | Fierce warriors |
| Ninevah | Assyrian capital, first library |
| Nebuchadnezzar | Chaldean Hanging Gardens in Babylon |
| Persians | empire in what is Iran today, Darius, Cyrus, and Xerxes |
| Satraps | a governor who worked locally |
| Darius I | Expanded Persian empire over 2500 miles |
| Xerxes | his army marched to a narrow pass at Thermopylae, Persians won ( |
| Battle of Salamis | Water Battle, Xerses (Persian) was defeated |
