Language
What was the language of the Romas?
Latin
What are gold, silver, bronze, and iron?
This was the first Jewish King.
Who is Saul?
This Greek conquered the great Persian empire.
Who is Alexander the Great?
What was the traditional language of the Jews?
Hebrew
In Daniel 2, the golden head symbolizes this.
What is Babylon?
These are the two Jewish kingdoms, separated after David.
What are Israel and Judah?
This is who inherited Alexander the Great's vast empire.
Who are the four generals, who fought over the empire and split it into four kingdoms ( of the Seleucids, Ptolemaics, Antigonids, Attalids)?
This was the day to day language of many Jews in Jesus' day, due to lingering influence of the Persians.
What is Aramaic?
In Daniel 2, the silver kingdom symbolizes this.
What is Persia?
This is who the Maccabees fought to regain control of Jerusalem.
Who are the Seleucid Greeks?
This is why Christian missionaries were able to travel so far without being killed or stopped at border crossings.
What is the Pax Romana - the widespread safety and peace brought about within Rome by Rome's extreme force?
This was the lingua franca of the Roman empire.
What is Greek?
In Daniel 2, the bronze symbolizes this.
What is Greece?
This is the kingdom that conquered Judah.
What is Nebuchadnezzar's Neo-Babylon?
This was the first Christian emperor.
Who was Constantine the Great?
"Graecia capta ferum victorem cepit." - Horace
What is "Captured Greece took captive her savage conqueror"?
Babylon, conquered by Persia, conquered by Greece, conquered by Rome.
This is the original idea of what the messiah would do.
What is violently and militarily revolt against foreign oppressors and restore a fully independent, Jewish, Davidic kingdom?
This is the reason Nero gave for beginning a persecution of Christians in 64AD.
What is the fire of 64AD?