Western Civ. Ch. 2

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Late Bronze Age

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1500-1100 BC. For 500 years, networks of commerce and diplomacy tied together the distinct cultures of Egypt, Greece, Anatolia, and Southwest Asia. This time made it have an unprecedented degree of international trade and diplomatic change.

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The Club of Great Powers

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Egypt, Neo-Assyria, Neo-Babylonia (Mesopotamia), the Hittites of Anatolia, Mycenaean Greece and Minoan Crete, the Syrians, and the Canaanites of the Levant

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The Hebrews

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People who originated in Canaan in the tumultousnera at the end of the Late Bronze Age. They have two distinctions: 1. History and 2. Religion. 1History- Old Testament 600's-500's and from 1100-500 that 600 years of oral tradition. 2. Religion - belief in one god, monotheism and also they are considered the israelites

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The Levant

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It consisted of the Syrians and the Canaanites. The North to South land from Asia Minor all the way to Egypt. This has been described as the "crossroads of western Asia, the eastern Mediterranean and northeast Africa". This includes most of modern Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Israel, and Palestine.

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Anatolia

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in 1650 BCE the Hittites had established a prosperous kingdom in asia minor called Hatti. It started from the city-state of Troy all the way to ending close to Mesopotamia.

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Indo-Europeans

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This term dominated european languages. It was part of Egypt, Minoans of Crete, Myceneans of Greece, Hittites of Anatolia, Iran, and Indian languages of Northern India. This term is a linguistic term: Armenian, Persian, and a majority of European languages, share similarities in vocabulary and grammar inherited from an parent language.