Became ruler of Egypt.

He declared that Aton, a minor sun god, was the only gods that could be worshipped and makes him the main god.

Changes his own name to Akhenaton to honor Aton.

Successor of Akhenaton, a boy pharaoh of Egypt, changed his name in a sugn that the god Amon had returned to favor.

Only Egyptian pharaoh whose tomb was not robbed in antiquity.

King of the Babylonians (Created the Old Babylonoian Empire), Used shrewed mix of democracy and military might.

Required marketplaces to use standard weights based on the talent(currency type).

Issued standard legal code that placed everyone under same laws.

Assyrians

(From modern Lebenon) Another of the Semetic peoples.

Engaged in sea trade.

Each Phoenician city was it own city-state governed by a king avided by a council of nobles.

Was the most effective Chaldean King who captured Jerusalem.

Strengthed walls of Babylon.

Created the hanging gardens for his queen.

Blind Greek poet.

Wrote poems called the Iliad and Odyssey (They told og the Trojan War)

Athenian leader who est. democracy (The rise of the Greeks)

It was called a radical democracy because all people where responisible for governing.