New Kingdom
Cyrus rose as a leader of a Persian tribe during this year.
What is 559 BC?
He began the religion of Zoroastrianism.
The valuable items that Cyrus gave back to the Jews.
What is the temple articles that Nebuchadnezzar had taken?
How Daniel ended up in Babylon.
What is he was taken as a captive?
One big thing different about the book of Esther compared to the other books of the Bible.
What is the name of God is never mentioned?
The four capitals of the Persian empire.
What are Susa (Shusan), Ecbatana, Persepolis, and Babylon?
Zoroaster wanted to eliminate this from religion.
What is polytheism and animal sacrifice?
The modern country that is where Persia used to be.
What is Iran?
This happened to Daniel when he refused to pray to King Darius.
What is he was thrown into the lion's den, but God closed up the mouths of the lions?
The tribe that Mordecai was from.
What is Benjamin?
The language of international commerce during the time of the Persian empire.
What is Aramaic?
The famous theologian that was Manichaean for 9 years before converting to Christianity.
Who is St. Augustine?
Some of Cyrus' personality traits that you learned about.
What are generous, devoted to learning, and ambitious?
Daniel said this about Belshazzar's gods of gold, silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.
What is they could not see, hear, or understand?
The way in which the day was determined for when the Jews were to be annihilated.
What is casting a lot or pur?
He took over the Persian empire in 330 BC.
Who is Alexander the Great?
The most sacred days to the cult of Mithraism.
What are Sundays and December 25?
The early capital city of the Kingdom of Kush and its location.
What is Napata and located along the upper Nile, south of Egypt?
This happened to Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego when they refused to worship the golden image.
What is they were thrown into the fiery furnace?
The Jews commemorate this at Purim.
What is the Lord's deliverance on the day Haman had set for their destruction?
Daily Double - The job of the satraps and the king appointed secretaries.
What is satraps were civil authorities who governed the satrapies or provinces of the Persian empire. The king appointed a secretary for each satrapy who examine the satrap's mail and served as the king's personal representative?
What Zoroaster believed about the coming Messiah.
What is a messiah, Sashoyant, was to come at the end of the 12,000 years he believed the earth would last?
The year and how Cyrus died, the place where his tomb was built, and the length of his dynasty lasted in Persia.
What is 529 BC, during a military expedition, Pasargade, and 200 years?
The issue regarding food that Daniel and his three friends took up with the king.
What is they wanted only vegetables and water?
The provincial leaders took this side on the day that had been fixed for destruction of the Jews. And this is why they took it.
What is the Jews and because they were afraid of Mordecai?