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This was the first king of Israel before the kingdom fractured.
Who is King Saul?
The ancient nomadic nation of Israel adhered to this system of government.
What is a theocracy?
Hieratic Scale in ancient carvings, paintings, and sculptures indicate this idea.
What is importance or power?
Archaeological sites of destroyed cities exist, such as Jericho, supporting this time period in Ancient Israelite history.
What is the Conquest of Canaan?
These were the individual military rulers of the Israelite tribes who would occasionally unite the fractured tribes to defeat their enemies.
Who were the Judges?
This man was the king of Babylon when it conquered the Southern Kingdom of Judah.
Who is King Nebuchadnezzar?
This is another name for the Ten Commandments, issued by God to Moses on Mount Sinai?
What is the Decalogue?
This Assyrian mythical sculpture represented intelligence, strength, and freedom.
What is Lamassu?
This ziggarat was first built by Hammurabi, but renovated and expanded under Nebuchadnezzar.
What is Etemenanki?
This alliance ensured the overthrow of the Assyrian Empire.
What is the Chaldean-Median Coalition?
This king united the Persians and the Medes to establish the largest empire the world had yet seen.
Who is Shah Cyrus the Great?
This was the chief Mesopotamian god and the patron god of Babylon.
Who is Marduk?
Because they were a war-based society, Assyrian art was focused on communicating these two things.
What are power and fear?
This object records the decrees of Shah Cyrus, including his commands regarding displaced peoples within the Persian Empire.
What is the Cyrus Cylinder?
Upon Babylon's fall to the Medes and Persians, this man was king (1), but his son ruled in his stead (2).
Who are (1) Nabonidus and (2) Belshazzar?
This king established the Neo-Babylonian Empire.
Who was Nabopolassar?
Many Ancient Near Eastern kings used this to legitimize their rule over the people.
What is the Divine Right to Rule?
This panel on the Black Obelisk depicts King Jehu of the Northern Kingdom of Israel bowing before King Shalmaneser III of Assyria, paying tribute.
What is the Jehu Panel?
This was the enormous burnt-brick entryway located over the main thoroughfare in Babylon.
What is the Ishtar Gate?
This method of empire management set Persia apart from the deportation policies of Assyria and Babylon.
What is a Policy of Tolerance?
This Assyrian king created the first professional army, employing siege machines and extensive iron weaponry.
Who is Tiglath-pilaser III?
This man was the primary prophet of the state religion of Persia.
Who is Zarathustra?
These narratives were frequently depicted in Assyrian relief carvings to assert their dominance over nature and mastery of weaponry.
What are Lion Hunts?
This was the most famous of the extensive network of roads that connected the vast Persian Empire.
What was the Royal Road?
These two battles saw the fall of Persia to the Greeks.
What are the Battle of Issus and the Battle of Gaugamela?