Geography
Lowest place on earth
What is the Dead Sea?
Who was Israel's second and greatest king?
Who was King David?
Sheltered place where ships may anchor safely
What is a harbor?
What Assyria north or south of Babylon?
Ruler of the First Babylonian Empire
Who was Hammurabi?
Israel’s longest and most important river?
What is the Jordan River?
Who was Israel’s first king?
Who was Saul?
The most well-known Canaanite god
What was Baal?
Capital of ancient Assyria
Nineveh
King Nebuchadnezzar’s grandson who ruled Babylon
Who was Belshazzaar?
Where was Solomon’s Temple located
What is Jerusalem?
God’s basic laws for right and wrong were called The….
Ten Commandments
Boundary where ocean and land meet
What is a seacoast?
Powerful king of the Assyrian Empire
Who was Tiglath-Pileser III?
Chaldean king, son of Nabopolassar who hoped to make Babylon the world’s most beautiful city
Nebuchadnezzar II
Which parts of Israel became Judah?
Who was God’s chosen man to lead the Israelites into Canaan?
Who was Joshua?
Part of ocean or sea which reaches into the land, generally with a narrower opening than a bay
What is a gulf?
Assyrian King who attacked the two tribes of Judah and whose army was destroyed by God
Who was Sennacherib?
Ancient city on the Banks of Euphrates River, center for world trade and considered a powerful empire
What is Babylon?
Land did God promise Abraham's descendants for an inheritance
What is Canaan?
Name for the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob
What is Israelites or Hebrews?
Narrow, man-made channel of water
What is a canal?
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People of southern Mesopotamia; land of Ur
Who were the Chaldeans?