The Old Babylonian Empire
Who was ascended as King of Babylon?
Hammurabi
Who dominated Asia Minor?
Hittites
Assyrias first great monarch.
a Semitic people from Arabia, formed a coalition with the Medes and Scythians and overthrew the Assyrian Empire about 600 B.C.
Cyrus the Great, whom the God of Israel had called"____" and "_____"
my shepherd
My anoited
What was the greatest mathematic achievement of the Babylonians?
place-value notation
The Hitties are noted for being the first people to use_____.
Iron extensively
What is their great capital.
Nineveh
Who destroyed Jerusalem in 586 B.C. and carried away the remaining inhabitants of Judah to captivity in Babylon
Nebuchadnezzar
How many Jews returned to the land of Judah?
42,360
___ was the first empire to rule the Middle East after sumer.
Babylon
At its height (c. 1400 B.C.) the Hitties Empire even rivaled mighty ____
Egypt
The last great monarch of the Assyrians was?
Ashurbanipal
One of the Jews taken captive by the Babylonians.
Daniel
What established Darius?
The worlds first postal postal service
____ was composed during the reing of Hammurabi in orden to exalt Babylon and its chief god, Marduk.
Enuma Elish, or Babylonian Genesis
In what year the Hittite kings had consolidated their power in Asia Minor
1700 B.C.
Which profet was warned of Gods coming judgment?
The Jewish prophet Jonah.
The ruins of Babylon bear testimony to the ____.
Judgment of God
Who was the husban of Queen Esther?
Ahasuerus