People
God's chosen man to lead Israelites out of slavery
Moses
Lowest place on the earth's land surface; one of the saltiest bodies of water on Earth
Dead Sea
God's basic laws for right and wrong
Ten Commandments
Israel's first king
Saul
Walled city conquered by Israel
Jericho
Who did God use as leaders to deliver the Israelites from their conquerors?
Judges
The Jewish captive who was trained to serve the king of Babylon was named ________.
Daniel
King of Egypt
Pharaoh
Longest and most important river in Israel
Jordan River
A crack in the earth's surface
Fault
Israel's second king
Location of Solomon's Temple
Jerusalem
Darius III
The Greek ruler who invaded and defeated the Persian Empire was ____________ ____ _________.
Alexander the Great
Hebrews; descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob
Israelites
Mountain where God gave the Ten Commandments to Israelites
Mount Sinai
Sinai Peninsula
Israel's third king
Solomon
Ancient city on the banks of Euphrates River; center for world trade; and considered a powerful empire
Babylon
Who was the most well-known Canaanite god?
Baal
The Second (New) _________________ Empire was established by Chaldean King Nabopolassar
Babylonian
God's chosen man to lead Israelites into Canaan
Joshua
Israel's largest freshwater lake; also known as Lake Tiberias
Sea of Galilee
This kingdom was made up of ten tribes of Israel; also known as Israel
The Northern Kingdom
Assyrian king who attacked the two tribes of Judah and whose army was destroyed by God
Sennacherib
One of the largest empires in history under Cyrus the Great
The Persian Empire
What leader of Persia invaded Babylon, killed Belshazzar, and conquered the Second Babylonian Empire?
Cyrus the Great
The Chaldean king, ____________________ II, was the son of Nabopolassar and hoped to make Babylon the world's most beautiful city.
Nebuchadnezzar
Great ruler during the First Babylonian Empire
Hammurabi
Source of the Jordan River
Mount Hermon
This kingdom was made of two tribes of Israel; also known as Judah; location of Jerusalem
The Southern Kingdom
Powerful king of Assyrian Empire who controlled most of Fertile Crescent, part of Asia Minor, and part of the land of Egypt
Tiglath-Pileser III
Capital of Assyria
Ninevah
What king that ruled Babylon was the grandson of Nebuchadnezzar?
King Belshazzar
The Chaldeans, a people of southern Mesopotamia, overthrew the Assyrian Empire under the leadership of their king, __________________.
Nabopolassar