History, Pt 2

Question 1

Who were the Hasidim?

Answer 1

Pious common people who fought against the two aristocratic parties and the Hellenistic changes.

Question 2

How did Antiochus Epiphanes IV incite a rebellion?

Answer 2

He looted the temple treasury to fund his Egypt campaign

Question 3

Who changed Jerusalem’s status to a katoikia?

Answer 3

Antiochus Epiphanes IV

Question 4

What was the significance of changing Jerusalem’s status to a katoikia?

Answer 4

Gentiles could now vote on reforms and even change temple practices

Question 5

Which kingdom was Antiochus Epiphanes IV part of?

Answer 5

The Seleucids

Question 6

Under which ruler were the Jews persecuted?

Answer 6

Antiochus Epiphanes IV

Question 7

Why did Antiochus Epiphanes IV persecute the Jews?

Answer 7

He reasoned that the rebellion had come from pious Jews and so the religion needed to be outlawed.

Question 8

What was the abomination of the desolation?

Answer 8

Something the Seleucids put in the Jewish temple during the persecution.

Question 9

Whose actions began the Maccabean Revolt?

Answer 9

Mattathias

Question 10

What did Mattathias do?

Answer 10

He killed an officer trying to enforce pagan worship.

Question 11

What does Hanukkah commemorate?

Answer 11

The rededication of the temple after the Maccabean revolt.

Question 12

Who lead the Maccabean Revolt?

Answer 12

First Mattathias and then his son Judas

Question 13

What year was the temple rededicated after the Maccabean Revolt?

Answer 13

164 BC

Question 14

Which son of Mattathias succeeded in being recognized by the Seleucid king as an independent ruler of Jerusalem?

Answer 14

Simon

Question 15

Which leader of the Maccabean Revolt oversaw the rededication of the temple?

Answer 15

Judas Maccabeus

Question 16

Which dynasty (beginning with Simon) ruled a newly independent Jerusalem?

Answer 16

Hasmoneans

Question 17

Who succeeded Simon as ruler of Jerusalem?

Answer 17

John Hyrcanus

Question 18

Which dynasty was John Hyrcanus part of?

Answer 18

Hasmonean

Question 19

What was John Hyrcanus known for?

Answer 19

Expanding his territory and trying to force people to be Jewish

Question 20

Which dynasty was Simon part of?

Answer 20

Hasmonean

Question 21

Which dynasty was Alexander Jannaeus part of?

Answer 21

Hasmonean

Question 22

Who succeeded John Hyrcanus?

Answer 22

Alexander Janneaus

Question 23

Which Hasmonean first endured much conflict with the Pharisees?

Answer 23

Alexander Janneaus

Question 24

Which Roman governor did two fighting Hasmonean brothers appeal to for help against each other?

Answer 24

Pompey

Question 25

Who turned Jerusalem into a Roman province and began the diaspora?

Answer 25

Pompey

Question 26

Who united the Roman Republic?

Answer 26

Julius Caesar

Question 27

Who succeeded Julius Caesar and became the first emperor of Rome?

Answer 27

Augustus

Question 28

Who set the Roman Republic up to become the Roman Empire?

Answer 28

Julius Caesar

Question 29

Who established the Roman Empire?

Answer 29

Augustus

Question 30

Who succeeded August to become second emperor of Rome?

Answer 30

Tiberius

Question 31

Who was emperor of Rome during Jesus's ministry and death?

Answer 31

Tiberius

Question 32

Who was Quirinius?

Answer 32

A Roman prefect

Question 33

What position did Pontius Pilate hold?

Answer 33

Roman prefect

Question 34

Who founded Caesarea Maritima?

Answer 34

Herod the Great

Question 35

Who killed the last Hasmonean?

Answer 35

Herod the Great

Question 36

What construction projects was Herod the Great known for?

Answer 36

- Founding Caesarea Maritima | - Rebuilding the temple

Question 37

Name Herod the Great's three sons who succeeded him.

Answer 37

Archelaus Herod Philip Herod Antipas