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What is another name for Mesopotamia?

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Land bw the rivers

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What forms the western boundary of the Fertile Crescent?

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Mediterranean Sea

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Floods were?

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Unpredictable

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Difficulties in Mesopotamia?

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Lack of water
No natural defenses
Few resources for tools

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Where did the people of Mesopotamia get their water?

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Irrigation

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How many gods did the typical Sumerian have?

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3000

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Two phrases to describe Sumerian gods?

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Capricious and all powerful

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Who knew how to please the gods?

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Priests only

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Who became the rulers?

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Priests and warriors

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What did the Sumerians do for defense besides build walls?

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Stick together

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What developed in the time of the Sumerians?

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Specialized trade

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Where was writing first developed?

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Sumer

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What was writing used for?

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Record business transactions, temple records

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Where did Sargon I create the first empire?

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Akkad

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Who was Hammurabi?

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Amorite King who ruled Babylon

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What did Hammurabi do?

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Develop uniform law code

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What was hammurabi’s code?

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Lex talionis
Eye for an eye
Exodus 21

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Two characteristics of hammurabi’s code?

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Different punishments for different social classes

Written down for all to see

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What did the Assyrians do with their captives?

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Dispersed them

19
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In which books of the Bible is Assyria mentioned?

A

Isaiah
Jonah
Nahum

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Who were the Chaldeans?

A

New Babylonians

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Who built the hanging gardens?

A

Nebuchadnezzar II

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Where was Nebuchadnezzar mentioned?

A

Daniel

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Who did Babylon fall to?

A

Medes and Persians

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Where were the Phoenician colonies?

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Around the Mediterranean

25
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What did the Phoenicians invent?

A

The alphabet

The sail

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Why did the Phoenicians offer sacrifices to molech?

A

Blessings

More children

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Which patriarch carried on the covenant?

A

Isaac

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Who received the blessing besides the patriarchs?

A

Ishmael

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Who are ishmael’s modern descendants?

A

Arabs

30
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What did Joseph do?

A

Became second in command
Bought land for pharaoh
Saved family

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What is the Decalogue to the Hebrews?

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Not arbitrary, but a response

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Which book did the wandering take place in?

A

Exodus and numbers

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What was the time of the judges called?

A

The time of apostasy

34
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What did David do militarily?

A

United Kingdom

Expanded borders

35
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Which dynasty was omri?

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4

36
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Who assassinated jehu?

A

Jehu

37
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Who made Israel become strong again?

A

Jeroboam II

38
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Who told off bed defeat of Jerusalem from Babylon?

A

Daniel and Ezekiel

39
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When do the Romans raze Jerusalem?

A

70 ad

40
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What are the concepts associated with Judaism?

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Radical monotheism
Ethical monotheism
Salvation history

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What is radical monotheism?

A

Only one God

Idolatry is stupid

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Ethical monotheism?

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Our standards emerge from God’s character

Be holy for I am holy. Leviticus

43
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Salvation history?

A

God makes covenants with his people
Abraham, Moses, and David
Disobedience has consequences, but messiah will come

44
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How did King Cyrus rule?

A

Limited self government

Toleration

45
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What was Darius’s government?

A

Efficient
Set up satrapies
Sent inspectors
Standardized coinage

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Who did Persia fall to?

A

Alexander the Great and the Greeks

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