Chapters 4-6 Flashcards
The leaders of Israel during its first 300 years in Canaan
Judges
Another name for the Ten Commandments
Decalogue or Law of Moses
The first human king of Israel
Saul
The Northern Kingdom after Israel split into two separate kingdoms
Israel
Asked God for wisdom to rule the kingdom
Solomon
Joshua led Israel across this body of water and into Canaan
Jordan River
A theocracy is a land ruled by whom?
God
God and Israel made a covenant, or solemn agreement, here
Mt. Sinai
Deported the ten tribes of the Northern Kingdom
Shalmaneser V
Collected a library of 100,000 cuneiform tablets
Ashurbanipal
Saw the handwriting on the wall during a great feast
Balshazzar
Built the Hanging Gardens
Nebuchadnezzar
Allowed the Jews to return to their homeland
Cyrus
Daniel was an adviser to these rulers
Cyrus
Belshazzar
Nebuchadnezzar
Warned the city of Nineveh of God’s coming judgment
Jonah
Interpreted Nebuchadnezzar’s prophetic dream about empires
Daniel
Prophesied by Isaiah to be Cyrus’s ally in world conquest
God
Blind poet famous for his works the Iliad and the Odyssey
Homer
What happened in 776 B.C., the first recorded date in Greek history?
The first Olympic Games were held
The supposed king of the Greek gods
Zeus
Heroes in Greek mythology
Achilles or Odysseus
Where Athenians defeated a Persian landing force
Marathon
Hilltop fortress that was the east if government and religion
Acropolis
Minoan homeland
Crete
Mountain pass where brave Spartans held off Persians
Thermopylae
Controlled the Delian League
Athens
Rule by the many
Democracy
Common laborers in Sparta
Helots
Rule by a few rich
Oligarchy
Philosopher who drank poison instead of being exiled from Athens
Socrates
What the spartan ruling class spent its time doing
Training for war
Brought Athenian democracy to its fullest measure
Pericles
The war Athens lost
Peloponnesian War
A student of Socrates who wrote the dialogues, a series of philosophical works
Plato
Lover of wisdom
Philosopher
Built the palace at Knossos
Minoans
The Macedonian king who conquered almost all of Greece before he was assassinated
Philip II
The king of all Greek gods
Zeus
The Southern Kingdom of Israel fell to whom?
Chaldeans
A government ruled by God
Theocracy
Ways the Greeks displayed their humanism
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
What kind of city was Tyre
Phoenician
The last great Assyrian king
Ashurbanipal
City that Controlled the Peloponnesian League
Sparta
The battle that was a defeat for the Persians
Battle of salamis
Tutored Alexander the Great
Aristotle
Allowed the Jews to return to their homeland
Belshazzar
Led the brave Spartans at the Battle of Thermopylae
Leonidas
The Hittites weapons were made of
Iron
Went insane and lived like an animal for seven years
Nebuchadnezzar
Pushed Israel to its greatest extent
David
Goddess of wisdom
Athena
Young Greek conqueror
Alexander
Ancestor of the Greeks
Javan
Great Athenian statesman
Pericles
Built the Royal Road
Darius
Godly adviser to many kings
Daniel
The Greek credited with creating the Iliad and the Odyssey
Homer
The Southern Kingdom of Israel
Judah
Greek tribes and villages united to form a
Polis
Solomon asked for this to help him rule his kingdom
Wisdom
Israel’s neighbors who were a sea-trading people
Phoenicians