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What was the first empire to rule the Middle East after Sumer?

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Babylon

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What does the name Babel mean in the Akkadian tongue?

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“the gate of God”

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What does the name Babel mean in the Hebrew language?

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“to confuse”

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Who is the king of Babylon who brought most of Mesopotamia under Babylonian rule and established the old Babylonian Empire?

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Hammurabi

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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?

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Babylonian Genesis

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What was the greatest mathematical achievement of the Babylonians?

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Please - value notation

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What was the greatest achievement of the Babylonian empire?

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The realm of government and law

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What is the use of authority and power to uphold what is right, just, or lawful?

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Justice

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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?

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Hittites

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What is now modern day Turkey?

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Asia Minor

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Who is the Assyria’s first great monarch who established the Assyrian Empire?

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Tiglath-pileser I

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What was the capital of the Assyrian Empire?

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Nineveh

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Who is the series last great monarch who built the world’s first great library at Nineveh?

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Ashurbanipal

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Who were the Semitic people from Arabia that formed a coalition with the Medes and the Scythians to overthrow the Assyrians?

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Chaldeans

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Who established the Neo-Babylonian Empire?

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Nabopolassar

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Who controlled all of the Fertile Crescent including the Southern Kingdom of Judah?

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Nebuchadnezzar

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What were the terraced roof gardens of Babylon that were counted among the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World?

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Hanging Gardens of Babylon

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Who was one of the Jews taken captive by the Babylonians who eventually became an important official in Babylon?

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Daniel

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When was Jerusalem destroyed?

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586 B.C.

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Who was the leader of the Medo-Persian Empire whom the God of Israel had called “my shepherd” and “my anointed”?

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Cyrus the Great

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What was the section of modern Iran bordering the Persian Gulf in the southwest called?

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Persia

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Who established the world’s first postal service?

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Darius I

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Who was called Ahasuerus in the Bible who was the husband of Queen Esther?

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Xerxes I

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Who was the Persian king whose cupbearer was Nehemiah?

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Artaxerxes I

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What was the false pagan religion that the Persian kings practised?
Zoroastrianism
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What was the land given to Abraham known as?
Canaan, Palestine, Israel
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Where does the name Canaan originate from?
Ham's son who had the same name
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Where does the name Palestine originate from?
The Philistines who dwelt on the southwestern coast of the land
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Where does the name Israel come from?
The name God gave to Jacob
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What are the world's three great monotheistic religions that have viewed the Promised Land as the Holy Land?
Judaism, Christianity and Islam
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What were the proverbial limits of Israel and Old Testament Times?
northern Dan to southern Beer-Sheba
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Which country has the greatest variety of climate and topography of any country in the world?
Israel
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who was the “father of a great nation” who left Ur around two thousand B.C.?
Abraham
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Who was Abraham's son?
Isaac
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Who was Isaac's son?
Jacob
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Who is the Founding Fathers of the nation of Israel that include Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Jacob's 12 sons?
Patriarchs
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Who was one of the greatest men in world history who delivered the Israelites from Egyptian bondage?
Moses
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What is a solemn agreement?
Covenant
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Where did God make a covenant with Israel?
mount Horeb (Mount Sinai)
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What is the summary of the basic principles of morality (also called the Decalogue)?
The Ten Commandments
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What does the nation ruled by God called?
Theocracy
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What is a phonetic system of writing in which letters are used to represent sounds rather than things or ideas?
Alphabet
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What was the first true alphabet?
Sinai script
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Who were Semitic seafarers and merchants who carried an early form of the alphabet to the Mediterranean world?
Phoenicians
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What is the ability to read and write one's own language?
Literacy
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What is the system of reading and writing?
phonetic
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Who was the first king of Israel?
Saul
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Who was the second king of Israel who was a “man after God's own heart”?
David
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Which king of Israel reigned 7 years in Hebron as king of Judah then 33 years over all of Israel?
David
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What is the capital of Israel that was a former Jebusite stronghold?
Jerusalem
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Which king of Israel received the divine promise that the Messiah would be 1 of his descendants?
David
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Who was the third king of Israel whose name means peace; was David's son and reigned for 40 years?
Solomon
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Which two construction projects was Solomon known for?
The construction of the Lord's temple and his own palace
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In what year was Israel the greatest nation in the world under David and Solomon?
1000BC
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When did the northern kingdom of Israel fall and to who?
721BC; the Assyrians
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What was the capital of the northern kingdom of Israel?
Samaria
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When did the southern kingdom of Israel fall and to who?
586BC; the Babylonians
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What was the capital of the southern kingdom of Israel?
Jerusalem
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Who ruled the world when Jesus Christ was born?
Rome
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When was Jerusalem destroyed by the Romans?
A.D. 70
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When do the Jews get the nation of Israel back?
1948
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Which language is one of the world's oldest living languages that originated from the Sinai script, consists of 22 consonants with 11 vowel sounds each, and is the only spoken language based upon a written language?
Hebrew
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What was the eastern Roman Empire whose capital was Byzantium or Constantinople known as?
Byzantine empire
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What was a fanatical militia new religion that threatened Byzantium and is still around today?
Islam
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Who was in Arab Mystic from the city of Mecca who started the religion of Islam?
Mohammed
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What was a throng of devoted followers to Mohammed known as?
Muslims
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What is the flight of Mohammed, his family, and his followers from Mecca to Medina in 622 that marked year one in the Muslim calendar also known as?
hegira
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Who were Mohammed's successors who ruled much of the Middle East and North Africa?
Caliphs
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What was the series of holy wars which overran the Middle East and North Africa?
Jihads
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What is the holy book of Islam?
Koran
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What is the holy month of the Muslims during which they have to fast from sunrise to sundown?
Ramadan
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Who was the Englishman who was the pioneer missionary in Persia; left behind translations of the New Testament in Arabic, Hindustani, and Persian?
Henry Martyn
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Who was the first man in modern times to attempt to reach the Muslims of Arabia?
Ion - Keith Falconer
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Who was known as “the Apostle to Islam”?
Samuel Zwemer
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Why has the Middle East become an area of importance among nations?
Because of the oil reserves located beneath its sands and along its shores
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What generally consists of three consonants that give lexical meaning to a word in Arabic?
The root
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What consists of vowels and give grammatical meanings to a word in Arabic?
The pattern

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