Key Terms
- Babylonian exile
- the deportation of Judeans to Babylon after the fall of Jerusalem
- chattel slavery
- a form of slavery in which one person is owned by another as a piece of property
- Exodus
- the mass migration of Hebrews out of Egypt under the leadership of Moses
- Hebrew Bible
- the holy book that, according to Jewish tradition, tells the history of the Hebrew people
- Iron Age
- the period beginning around 1200 BCE when iron became the preferred material for manufacturing tools and weapons
- Ramesside kings
- the line of kings that ruled New Kingdom Egypt following the reign of Ramses I
- satrapy
- one of twenty governing districts in Persia administered by royal governors called satraps, who answered directly to the king
- vassal state
- a state or kingdom that is nominally independent in the running of its internal affairs but must submit to the demands of a dominating empire and usually provide tribute to it
- Zoroastrianism
- the religion of the ancient Persians, named for its founder Zarathustra, pronounced Zoroaster in Greek