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World Hisotry Chapter 3 Flashcards

1
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What was the first empire to rule the Middle East after Sumer?

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Babylon

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Word meaning the ‘“gate of God”

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Babel

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Word meaning “to confuse” in Hebrew

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Babel

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King that brought most of Mesopotamia under Babylonian rule and established the Old Babylonian Empire

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Hammurabi

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Writing that was composed during the reign of Hammurabi in order to exalt Babylon and its chief god, Marduk

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Babylonian Genesis or Enuma Elish

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What was the greatest mathematical achievement of the Babylonians?

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Place-value notation

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What was the greatest achievement of the Babylonian Empire

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In the realm of government and law

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What was the most important end marks of a civilization

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A written code of laws

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9
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Who collected and codified the existing Sumerian, Akkadian, and Babylonian laws?

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Hammurabi

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What was the purpose of Hammurabi nearly 300 laws?

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  • to cause Justice to prevail in the land
  • to destroy the wicked and evil
  • to prevent the strong from oppressing the weak
  • to further the welfare of the people
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The use of authority and power to uphold what is right, just, or lawful

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Justice

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12
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An indo-European people from Anatolia in Asia Minor that took down Babylon in 1600 B.C.

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Hittites

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13
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Who were the first people to use iron extensively

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The Hittites

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14
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Assyria’s first great monarch

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Tiglathpileser I

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Who seized Babylonia and established the Assyrian Empire about 1100 B.C.

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Tiglathpileser I

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Fall of Nineveh

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612 B.C.

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17
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What is the capital of the Assyrian Empire?

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Nineveh

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18
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Which year was the Assyrian Empire established

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1100 B.C.

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Who were responsible for the fall of the Norther Kingdom of Israel in 721 B.C.

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The Assyrian kings, Shalmaneser V and Sargon II

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What was the Assyrian kingdom’s one important contribution to civilization

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Building the world’s first great library

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21
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Who built the world’s first great library

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Ashurbanipal

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22
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Who was the Assyrian kingdom’s last great monarch

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Ashurbanipal

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23
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Who overthrew the Assyrian Empire in 600 B.C.

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The Chaldeans

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Who led the Chaldeans in overthrowing the Assyrian Empire and established the Neo- Babylonian Empire?

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Nabopolassar

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King that controlled the Fertile Crescent and destroyed Jerusalem in 586 B.C.

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Nebuchadnezzar

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26
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Counted among the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

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Hanging Gardens of Babylon

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27
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Jew who was taken captive by the Babylonians and became an important official in Babylon

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Daniel

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28
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Who overthrew the Neo-Babylonian Empire in 539 B.C.

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The Medes and Persians under Cyrus the Great

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29
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Under which two kings did the Persian Empire reach its greatest extent?

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Darius I and Xerxes I

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30
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Who established the world’s first postal service?

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Darius I

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31
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Who was the husband of Queen Esther in the Bible?

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Ahasuerus or Xerxes I

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32
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Who was Atraxerxes I cupbearer?

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Nehemiah

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33
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Who was Xerxes I successor?

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Artaxerxes I

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34
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In 536 B.C., which king issued a statement that all Jews could return to Jerusalem

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Cyrus the Great

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35
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What was the pagan religion practiced by the Persian Kings?

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Zoroastrianism

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36
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Persian kings had high regards for what? How did they rule?

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The sanctity of law; they ruled under the law

37
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What are the other names for the Promised Land?

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Canaan, Palestine, Israel

38
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The world’s three monotheistic religions that viewed the Promised Land as the Holy Land

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Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

39
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Which land has the greatest variety of climate and topography of any country in the world?

40
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What was the main highway of the ancient world?

41
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Who was the “Father of a great nation”

42
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God’s covenant promises passed from who to who?

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From Isaac to Jacob

43
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Who are the patriarchs of Israel ?

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Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and the 12 sons of Jacob

44
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What word means The founding fathers of the nation of Israel

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Patriarchs

45
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One of the greatest man on world history

46
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Solemn agreement

47
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Where did God make a covenant

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At Mt. Horeb or Mt. Sinai

48
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At Mt. Horeb, what set of rules did God give His people also called Decalogue?

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The Ten Commandments

49
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What is another name for the Ten Commandments?

50
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A summary of the basic principles of morality

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The Ten Commandments

51
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Nation ruled by God

52
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“A man after God’s own heart”

53
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Who became the second king of Israel after King Saul around 1048 B.C.

54
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Where did David establish his capital

55
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A phonetic system of writing in which letters are used to represent sounds rather than things or ideas.

56
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The first true alphabet

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Sinai Script

57
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The ancestor of our modern alphabet

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Sinai Script

58
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The ability to read and write one’s own language

59
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Whose name means “peace” in Hebrew

60
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How long did Solomon reign?

61
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Under which two kings did Israel become the greatest nation in the world? In which year?

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Under David and Solomon; 1000 B.C.

62
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What were Solomon’s two greatest building projects?

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The construction of the Lord’s Temple and his own palace

63
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What happened to the Israel after Solomon’s death?

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Israel was divided in the Northern kingdom (Israel) and the Southern Kingdom (Judah)

64
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What was the capital of the Northern Kingdom of Israel? Which year did it fall? Who overthrew it?

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Samaria; 721 B.C.; Assyrian invaders

65
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What year did the Southern Kingdom fall? Who overthrew it?

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586 B.C.; the Babylonians

66
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The Messiah of Israel and the Savior of world who was born while Rome ruled the world

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Jesus Christ

67
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When was the destruction of Israel?

68
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Which year was Rome divided into East and west?

69
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Who controlled parts of the Middle East for over a thousand years from its capital? What was it’s capital called?

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The Byzantine Empire; Byzantium or Constantinople

70
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Militant new religion in the Arabian Peninsula

71
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Who deciphered the Sinai Script? In what year?

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Sir Flinders Petrie; in 1948

72
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What is the language of the Old Testament Scriptures?

73
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The Hebrew language’s three major periods of development

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  • Biblical Hebrew
  • Rabbinic Hebrew
  • Modern Hebrew
74
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Jewish laws and traditions

75
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A language derived from medieval Germans and spoken by European Jews

76
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Arab mystic from the city of Mecca and founder of Islam

77
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Followers of Islam

78
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The holy book of Islam

79
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What are Mohammed’s successors called?

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The Caliphs

80
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“Flight”

81
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Who left behind translations of the New Testament in Arabic, Hindustani, and Persian

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Henry Martyn

82
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First man in modern times to attempt to reach the Muslims of Arabia with the gospel of Christ

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Ion-Keith Falconer

83
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Two young Americans of the Reformed Church that established the Arabian Mission

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Samuel Zwemer and James Cantine

84
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“The Apostle of Islam”

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Samuel Zwemer

85
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Why has the Middle East become an area of importance among nations?

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Because of its oil reserves that are located beneath its sands and along its shores

86
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What are the two varieties of the Arabic language?

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  • Classical (literary)
  • Colloquial
87
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Order of world empires

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Old Babylonian Empire
Hittite Empire
Assyrian Empire
Neo-Babylonian Empire
Persian Empire

88
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Sumerian Chronology

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Early Dynastic Age
Old Akkadian Period
Third Dynasty of Ur
Golden Age of Ur

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