Test 3 Flashcards
What is another name for Mesopotamia?
Land bw the rivers
What forms the western boundary of the Fertile Crescent?
Mediterranean Sea
Floods were?
Unpredictable
Difficulties in Mesopotamia?
Lack of water
No natural defenses
Few resources for tools
Where did the people of Mesopotamia get their water?
Irrigation
How many gods did the typical Sumerian have?
3000
Two phrases to describe Sumerian gods?
Capricious and all powerful
Who knew how to please the gods?
Priests only
Who became the rulers?
Priests and warriors
What did the Sumerians do for defense besides build walls?
Stick together
What developed in the time of the Sumerians?
Specialized trade
Where was writing first developed?
Sumer
What was writing used for?
Record business transactions, temple records
Where did Sargon I create the first empire?
Akkad
Who was Hammurabi?
Amorite King who ruled Babylon
What did Hammurabi do?
Develop uniform law code
What was hammurabi’s code?
Lex talionis
Eye for an eye
Exodus 21
Two characteristics of hammurabi’s code?
Different punishments for different social classes
Written down for all to see
What did the Assyrians do with their captives?
Dispersed them
In which books of the Bible is Assyria mentioned?
Isaiah
Jonah
Nahum
Who were the Chaldeans?
New Babylonians
Who built the hanging gardens?
Nebuchadnezzar II
Where was Nebuchadnezzar mentioned?
Daniel
Who did Babylon fall to?
Medes and Persians
Where were the Phoenician colonies?
Around the Mediterranean
What did the Phoenicians invent?
The alphabet
The sail
Why did the Phoenicians offer sacrifices to molech?
Blessings
More children
Which patriarch carried on the covenant?
Isaac
Who received the blessing besides the patriarchs?
Ishmael
Who are ishmael’s modern descendants?
Arabs
What did Joseph do?
Became second in command
Bought land for pharaoh
Saved family
What is the Decalogue to the Hebrews?
Not arbitrary, but a response
Which book did the wandering take place in?
Exodus and numbers
What was the time of the judges called?
The time of apostasy
What did David do militarily?
United Kingdom
Expanded borders
Which dynasty was omri?
4
Who assassinated jehu?
Jehu
Who made Israel become strong again?
Jeroboam II
Who told off bed defeat of Jerusalem from Babylon?
Daniel and Ezekiel
When do the Romans raze Jerusalem?
70 ad
What are the concepts associated with Judaism?
Radical monotheism
Ethical monotheism
Salvation history
What is radical monotheism?
Only one God
Idolatry is stupid
Ethical monotheism?
Our standards emerge from God’s character
Be holy for I am holy. Leviticus
Salvation history?
God makes covenants with his people
Abraham, Moses, and David
Disobedience has consequences, but messiah will come
How did King Cyrus rule?
Limited self government
Toleration
What was Darius’s government?
Efficient
Set up satrapies
Sent inspectors
Standardized coinage
Who did Persia fall to?
Alexander the Great and the Greeks
