Chapter 3 Flashcards
What was the first empire to rule the Middle East after Sumer?
Babylon
What does the name Babel mean in the Akkadian tongue?
“the gate of God”
What does the name Babel mean in the Hebrew language?
“to confuse”
Who is the king of Babylon who brought most of Mesopotamia under Babylonian rule and established the old Babylonian Empire?
Hammurabi
What was the mythical work of literature that was composed during the reign of Hammurabi in order to exalt Babylon and its chief god Marduk?
Babylonian Genesis
What was the greatest mathematical achievement of the Babylonians?
Please - value notation
What was the greatest achievement of the Babylonian empire?
The realm of government and law
What is the use of authority and power to uphold what is right, just, or lawful?
Justice
What was an Indo-European people from Anatolia and Asia Minor who plundered the Great City of Babylon and were the first to use iron extensively?
Hittites
What is now modern day Turkey?
Asia Minor
Who is the Assyria’s first great monarch who established the Assyrian Empire?
Tiglath-pileser I
What was the capital of the Assyrian Empire?
Nineveh
Who is the series last great monarch who built the world’s first great library at Nineveh?
Ashurbanipal
Who were the Semitic people from Arabia that formed a coalition with the Medes and the Scythians to overthrow the Assyrians?
Chaldeans
Who established the Neo-Babylonian Empire?
Nabopolassar
Who controlled all of the Fertile Crescent including the Southern Kingdom of Judah?
Nebuchadnezzar
What were the terraced roof gardens of Babylon that were counted among the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World?
Hanging Gardens of Babylon
Who was one of the Jews taken captive by the Babylonians who eventually became an important official in Babylon?
Daniel
When was Jerusalem destroyed?
586 B.C.
Who was the leader of the Medo-Persian Empire whom the God of Israel had called “my shepherd” and “my anointed”?
Cyrus the Great
What was the section of modern Iran bordering the Persian Gulf in the southwest called?
Persia
Who established the world’s first postal service?
Darius I
Who was called Ahasuerus in the Bible who was the husband of Queen Esther?
Xerxes I
Who was the Persian king whose cupbearer was Nehemiah?
Artaxerxes I
What was the false pagan religion that the Persian kings practised?
Zoroastrianism
What was the land given to Abraham known as?
Canaan, Palestine, Israel
Where does the name Canaan originate from?
Ham’s son who had the same name
Where does the name Palestine originate from?
The Philistines who dwelt on the southwestern coast of the land
Where does the name Israel come from?
The name God gave to Jacob
What are the world’s three great monotheistic religions that have viewed the Promised Land as the Holy Land?
Judaism, Christianity and Islam