Nations
The people to whom the Northern Kingdom and the Hittites fell in the 700s B.C.
Who were the Assyrians?
The king who led Israel to the peak of its greatness as a nation-state.
Who is David?
A solemn agreement
What is a covenant?
Leader who received he Ten Commandments at Mount Sinai
The place were God made a covenant with Israel and gave Moses the Ten Commandments.
Where is Mount Sinai?
The people who defeated the Southern Kingdom in 500s B.C.
Who were the Chaldeans?
The Persian king who allowed the Jews to return to Judah.
Who is Cyrus the Great?
Rule by God.
What is a theocracy?
Who is Samuel?
The gardens built by Nebuchadnezzar for his wife.
Where is the Hanging Gardens?
A group of people who controlled an empire in Asia Minor and who used their resources for war and conquest.
Who were the Hittites
The king who conquered all of Mesopotamia and established the Chaldean Empire.
Used by the Hittites to make weapons
What is iron?
The prophet who foretold that God would assist Cyrus in his conquests.
Who is Isaiah?
The great "highway" built by Darius.
Where is the Royal Road?
prosperous sea traders who established a great network of trading posts
Who were the Phoenicians?
The king who began in earnest the Assyrian drive to a world empire.
Who is Tiglath-pileser III?
The most important thing the Phoenicians carried with them on their trading ventures.
What is the alphabet?
The last great Assyrian king, who collected a library of about 100,000 cuneiform tablets.
The city built by Nimrod that became the Assyrian capital.
Where is Nineveh?
The powerful group of people that were defeated because God's power flowed through Moses' staff
Who were the Amalekites?
The Assyrian king who deported the ten tribes of the Northern Kingdom.
Who is Shalmaneser V?
What are the principles of morality?
The son of Nabonidus who handled the actual business of government and was killed by the Medes and Persians.
The area between the Black Sea, the Mediterranean Sea, and the Euphrates River.
Where is Asia Minor?