Israel before the Promised Land
Where did God and Israel extend the promises He made to Abraham in a covenant?
Mt. Sinai
Who warned Israel about the dangers of having a human king.
Samuel
What nation conquered the Northern kingdom of Israel
Assyrians
What nation conquered the southern kingdom of Judah?
Chaldean Empire
What important gift did the Phoenicians carry with them?
An alphabet
Zeus
What was the name of the hilltop fortress in ancient Greek cities?
Acropolis
Oligarchy is rule by ________
few
What kind of government has God as king?
Theocracy
Who was the first human king of Israel?
Saul
Who prophesied the fall of Nineveh?
Nahum
Which king conquered all of Mesopotamia and established the Chaldean empire?
What is the peninsula of western Asia between the Black Sea, the Mediterranean Sea, and the Euphrates River
Asia Minor
Who were glorified human beings in Greek myth?
Heroes
What was the name for the market place in ancient Greek cities?
Agora
Democracy means rule by ______
many
In 404 B.C. who lost the Peloponnesian war?
Athens
What does philosopher mean
Lover of Wisdom
Which king conquered the Persian empire?
Alexander the Great
What is another name for the Ten Commandments?
Decalogue
Who led Israel to the peak of its greatness as a nation-state?
David
Who Warned Ninevah of God's coming judgement?
Jonah
Which king destroyed Jerusalem and carried away its inhabitants to captivity in Babylon?
Nebuchadnezzar
What is the first recorded date in Greek history and what happened on that date?
Olympic games - 776 B.C.
What kind of gov did Sparta have? What about Athens?
Oligarchy - Democracy
What form of democracy do people elect a few men to represent them in the government?
Representative
Who chose to kill himself instead of being exiled from Athens?
Socrates
What was the name of the many cities named of Alexander the Great?
Alexandria
How long did the Israelites wander the wilderness?
40 years
When God offered Solomon any gift of his choice, what did he choose?
Who collected a library of about 100,000 cuneiform clay tablets?
Ashurbanipal
Who was one of the chief advisors to Nebuchadnezzar?
Daniel
Which King did God move to allow the Jews to return to Jerusalem?
Cyrus the Great
Who was the blind poet who created the Iliad and Odyssey?
Homer
In the Greco-Persian war, where did the Persian fleet land where they were promptly defeated by the Athenians twice?
Marathon
What was the largest class of common laborers in Sparta called?
Helots
What form of democracy do the people themselves make the big decisions of government directly?
Direct Democracy
Who tutored Alexander the Great?
Aristotle
After Alexander the Great's death, how many parts was the empire divided into?
4
What river did Joshua lead the people across into Canaan?
Jordan River
What two kingdoms did Israel split into? Names of each
Northern - Israel
Southern - Judah
Who deported the ten tribes of the Northern Kingdom of Israel?
Shalmaneser V
Which king was hosting a banquet and a hand appeared and wrote on the wall?
Belshazzar
Which king built the Royal Road?
Darius II
What social structure (not building) was the center of Greek city leadership in ancient Greece?
Family
In the Greco-Persian war, which Spartan king decided to block the Persian advance? Bonus 500 points: Where?
Leonidas - Thermopylae
What was Sparta's alliance called?
Peloponnesian League
Who introduced democratic principles to the Athenian government?
Solon
Who wrote thirty or more works called dialogues?
Plato
Which king conquered most of Greece?
Philip II
Who was the first nation to have a complete written account of its history.
Which Assyrian king first began to build a world empire?
Tiglathpilesar III
Which nations invaded Babylon and and killed Belshazzar?
Medes and Persians
Who was the civ centered on the island of Crete who produced the Knossos?
Minoans
In the Greco-Persian war, what was the final battle where the Persians suffered a crushing defeat?
Battle of Salamis
What was Athen's alliance called?
Delian League
Who brought the Athenian democracy to its fullest measure?
Pericles
What term describes the time period between Alexander the Great's empire and the Roman Empire?
Hellenistic Age
What is the term for a large group of foot soldiers armed with spears and shields trained to charge the enemy as a group?
Phalanx