history ch 3 quiz

Question 1

First to rule after Sumer

Answer 1

Old Babylonian Empire

Question 2

What does “Babel” mean in Babylon?

Answer 2

“the Gate of God”

Question 3

What does “Babel” mean in Hebrew?

Answer 3

“To Confuse”

Question 4

Whos rule officially started the Babylonian empire

Answer 4

Hummurabi

Question 5

Oldest form of literature outside of the Bible

Answer 5

Epic of Gilgamesh

Question 6

“Babylonian Genesis”

Answer 6

Enuma Elish

Question 7

greatest mathematical achievement

Answer 7

Place-Value Notation

Question 8

Babylonians greatest achievement

Answer 8

Their law code

Question 9

What do law codes create?

Answer 9

A sense of justice

Question 10

The use of authority and power to uphold what is right, just, or lawful

Answer 10

Justice

Question 11

First empire to use iron weapons

Answer 11

Hittites

Question 12

Conquered Babylon and set up Assyrian Empire

Answer 12

Tiglath-pileser I

Question 13

Capital of Assyria

Answer 13

Nineveh

Question 14

Who captured Northern Kingdom of Israel

Answer 14

Assyria

Question 15

Built the world’s first great library

Answer 15

Ashurbanipal (from Assyria)

Question 16

Conquered Assyria during Nabopollasar’s rule

Answer 16

Chaldeans (from Arabia)

Question 17

Conquered the fertile crescent and southern israel

Answer 17

Nebuchadnezzar

Question 18

Conquered the Bab(ylonian empire?)

Answer 18

Cyrus the Great

Question 19

What did cyrus allow the israelites to do?

Answer 19

To return to Jerusalem to build their temple

Question 20

When was the greatest extent of Persian power?

Answer 20

When they were under the rules of Darius and Xerxes

Question 21

Established the first postal system

Answer 21

Darius

Question 22

Husband of Queen Esther

Answer 22

Xerxes (Ahasuerus)

Question 23

Xerxes’ successor

Answer 23

Artaxerxes

Question 24

Who was Artaxerxes cupbearer?

Answer 24

Nehemiah

Question 25

False religion of Persia

Answer 25

Zoroastrianism

Question 26

What was the Persian ruler under?

Answer 26

He was under the law

Question 27

Order of Empires

Answer 27

-Old Babylonian Empire -Hittites -Assyria -New Babylonian Empire Persia

Question 28

What is Israel called?

Answer 28

Canaan, Promised Land, Palestine

Question 29

View Israel as central to their beliefs

Answer 29

Christianity, Judaism, Islam

Question 30

What was important about Israels location?

Answer 30

Israel was a main highway for trade and travel

Question 31

What was Abraham?

Answer 31

Father of the nation of Israel

Question 32

Called out of Sumerian culture to start a new godly culture

Answer 32

Abraham

Question 33

The patriarchs (founding fathers) of Israel

Answer 33

Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob

Question 34

Garden in Babylon that was given as a gift to the kings wife

Answer 34

The Hanging Gardens of Babylon

Question 35

led Israel out of Egypt into the Promised Land

Answer 35

Moses

Question 36

Solemn agreement between God and Israel

Answer 36

Gods covenant

Question 37

The terms/conditions for Gods covenant

Answer 37

God would bless and honor His people if they chose to obey Him

Question 38

God’s basic principles of right, wrong, and morality; “The Decalogue”

Answer 38

10 commandments

Question 39

nation ruled by God

Answer 39

Theocracy

Question 40

Human leaders who were chosen by God

Answer 40

Moses, Joshua, the Judges

Question 41

2nd King of Israel (after Saul)

Answer 41

David

Question 42

capital of Israel during Davids reign

Answer 42

Jerusalem

Question 43

David's son who reigned as a king for 40 years

Answer 43

Solomon

Question 44

What did Solomons name mean?

Answer 44

Peace

Question 45

What happened after Solomon died?

Answer 45

Israel split into Northern (Israel) and Southern (Judah) kingdoms

Question 46

Who conquered Samaria

Answer 46

The Assyrian empire

Question 47

Who was Jerusalem captured by?

Answer 47

The Babylonian empire

Question 48

conquered Israel a few years before Jesus’ birth

Answer 48

The Roman Empire

Question 49

Created the first postal system

Answer 49

Darius

Question 50

Whos descendants continued Jesus’ line

Answer 50

David

Question 51

ruled over the Middle East

Answer 51

Byzantine (Eastern Roman Empire)

Question 52

The capital of Byzantine

Answer 52

Byzantium (Constantinople)

Question 53

Arabic religious leader from Mecca who founded Islam

Answer 53

Mohammed

Question 54

Received visions from Allah (the islamic god) who told him he was the leader of a new, world-wide religion

Answer 54

Mohammed

Question 55

followers of Islam

Answer 55

Muslim

Question 56

Arabic for “flight”

Answer 56

Hegira

Question 57

What were Mohammed and his followers (Muslims) forced to do?

Answer 57

Flee Mecca

Question 58

Who did Mohammed and his followers conquer

Answer 58

Medina and most of the Middle East

Question 59

Arabic for “Holy War”

Answer 59

Jihad

Question 60

Mohammed’s successors; ruling religious leader

Answer 60

Caliphs

Question 61

Islam’s holy book; contains promises of pleasure for Muslims and death for infidels

Answer 61

Koran

Question 62

Religious requirements of Islam

Answer 62

Daily prayer Giving to the poor Fasting during Ramadan 1 lifetime pilgrimage to Mecca

Question 63

pioneer missionary to the Middle East

Answer 63

Henry Martyn

Question 64

first modern missionary to the Muslims

Answer 64

Ion Kieth-Falconer

Question 65

established the Arabian mission

Answer 65

Samuel Zwemer

Question 66

Why is the Middle East an area of importance

Answer 66

its oil reserves