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The leaders of Israel during its first 300 years in Canaan

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Judges

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Another name for the Ten Commandments

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Decalogue or Law of Moses

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The first human king of Israel

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Saul

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The Northern Kingdom after Israel split into two separate kingdoms

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Israel

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Asked God for wisdom to rule the kingdom

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Solomon

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Joshua led Israel across this body of water and into Canaan

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Jordan River

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A theocracy is a land ruled by whom?

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God

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God and Israel made a covenant, or solemn agreement, here

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Mt. Sinai

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Deported the ten tribes of the Northern Kingdom

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Shalmaneser V

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Collected a library of 100,000 cuneiform tablets

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Ashurbanipal

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Saw the handwriting on the wall during a great feast

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Balshazzar

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Built the Hanging Gardens

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Nebuchadnezzar

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Allowed the Jews to return to their homeland

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Cyrus

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Daniel was an adviser to these rulers

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Cyrus
Belshazzar
Nebuchadnezzar

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Warned the city of Nineveh of God’s coming judgment

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Jonah

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Interpreted Nebuchadnezzar’s prophetic dream about empires

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Daniel

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Prophesied by Isaiah to be Cyrus’s ally in world conquest

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God

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Blind poet famous for his works the Iliad and the Odyssey

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Homer

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What happened in 776 B.C., the first recorded date in Greek history?

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The first Olympic Games were held

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The supposed king of the Greek gods

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Zeus

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Heroes in Greek mythology

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Achilles or Odysseus

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Where Athenians defeated a Persian landing force

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Marathon

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Hilltop fortress that was the east if government and religion

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Acropolis

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Minoan homeland

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Crete

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Mountain pass where brave Spartans held off Persians

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Thermopylae

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Controlled the Delian League

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Athens

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Rule by the many

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Democracy

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Common laborers in Sparta

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Helots

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Rule by a few rich

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Oligarchy

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Philosopher who drank poison instead of being exiled from Athens

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Socrates

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What the spartan ruling class spent its time doing

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Training for war

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Brought Athenian democracy to its fullest measure

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Pericles

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The war Athens lost

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Peloponnesian War

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A student of Socrates who wrote the dialogues, a series of philosophical works

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Plato

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Lover of wisdom

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Philosopher

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Built the palace at Knossos

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Minoans

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The Macedonian king who conquered almost all of Greece before he was assassinated

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Philip II

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The king of all Greek gods

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Zeus

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The Southern Kingdom of Israel fell to whom?

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Chaldeans

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A government ruled by God

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Theocracy

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Ways the Greeks displayed their humanism

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Through their philosophical teaching that man must look to himself to provide the answers to life

By creating many false gods that were little more than glorified human beings

By emphasizing the beauty if man and his abilities over the Creator of man

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What kind of city was Tyre

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Phoenician

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The last great Assyrian king

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Ashurbanipal

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City that Controlled the Peloponnesian League

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Sparta

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The battle that was a defeat for the Persians

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Battle of salamis

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Tutored Alexander the Great

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Aristotle

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Allowed the Jews to return to their homeland

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Belshazzar

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Led the brave Spartans at the Battle of Thermopylae

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Leonidas

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The Hittites weapons were made of

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Iron

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Went insane and lived like an animal for seven years

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Nebuchadnezzar

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Pushed Israel to its greatest extent

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David

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Goddess of wisdom

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Athena

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Young Greek conqueror

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Alexander

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Ancestor of the Greeks

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Javan

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Great Athenian statesman

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Pericles

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Built the Royal Road

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Darius

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Godly adviser to many kings

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Daniel

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The Greek credited with creating the Iliad and the Odyssey

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Homer

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The Southern Kingdom of Israel

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Judah

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Greek tribes and villages united to form a

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Polis

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Solomon asked for this to help him rule his kingdom

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Wisdom

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Israel’s neighbors who were a sea-trading people

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Phoenicians

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