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BJ His chpt 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| polytheism | belief in many gods |
| cuniform | the earliest know form of writing |
| ziggurats | pyramid like structures that had terraces at different levels along their exterior |
| empire | the rule of one people over another |
| astronomy | the study of celestial bodies |
| pharoh | ruler of Egypt |
| heiroglyphics | a form of picture writing |
| theocracy | government directly by God |
| monotheism | belief in only one God |
| Babylonian Captivity | seventy-year exile of Israel in Babylon |
| Diaspora | the scattering of the Jewish people |
| satrapies | provinces in the Persian Empire |
| Sargon I | came to power int he city-state of Kish;conquered other city-states and established the first known empire empire, Akkadian empire |
| Hammurabi | the 6th of the Ammorites; united the lands of Mesopotamia under his rule;know for his code of law |
| Epic of Gilgamesh | noted example of Babylonians literature; epic poem of the hero Gilgamesh and his search for eternal life |
| Menes | united the two lands of upper and lower Egypt |
| Khufu (Cheops) | most famous pharaoh in the Old Kingdom of Egypt; built the Great Pyramid at Giza |
| Hatshepsut | First great woman ruler in Egypt; may have been Moses' adoptive mother |
| Thutmose III | greatest Egyptian warrior-king; Napoleon of Egypt |
| Amenhotep II | wouldn't let the children of Israel go |
| Rameses II | ruled Egypt a century and a half after the exodus; built mammoth temples and monuments |
| Baal | the word Hebrews used to refer to any of the Canaanites' gods |
| Abraham | the man God called out of Mesopotamian paganism |
| Abrahamic Covenant | covenant God made with Abraham to 1. give him a great seed of descendants that the Messiah would come from, 2. give his descendants the land of Canaan, and 3. bless the whole world through his descendants |
| Jacob (Israel) | Isaac's son; God changed his name to Israel |
| Joseph | one of Jacobs sons; given a leadership role in Egypt |
| Judah | most important tribe; kings and Messiah would be from this tribe |
| Moses | the man God raised up to lead His people out of Egypt |
| Joshua | the leader of Israel that began the conquest of Canaan |
| David | the man God chose to be king after Saul; a man "after God's own heart"; Messiah would come from his lineage |
| Solomon | son of David; built the temple; Israel peaked during his reign |
| 586 BC | The Chaldeans under Nebuchadnezzar destroyed Jerusalem and carried many Jews back to Babylon |
| 722 BC | The Assyrian army destroyed Samaria and took captive the ten northern tribes of Israel |
| Sargon II | leader of the Assyrian army that destroyed Samaria |
| Sennacherib | Assyrian king that tried to take Jerusalem from King Hezekiah; defeated by God's angel; murdered by his own sons |
| Nebuchadnezzar | ruler at the height of the Babylonian Empire |
| Belshazzar | a co-ruler of Babylon who used vessels from God's temple to toast the Chaldean gods and brought about Babylon's end |
| Cyrus | Persian king, one of the greatest conquorers to ever live |
| Croesus | Lydian king defeated by Cyrus and allowed to live as a prisoner in the royal court |
| Zoroaster | a religious leader who lived during the sixth century BC; instituted the worship of one god, Ahura Mazda |
| Avesta | The sacred writings of Zoroastrianism consisting of myths, regulations, and hymns of praise |
| Darius the Great | ruled at the height of the Persian Empire |
| List the three major rivers in this chapter and identify the civilizations which began along their banks | Tigris, Euphrates, and Nile Sumerian (T&E), Amorite (E), Egypt (N) |
| List at least one way in which each of the following civilizations played a role in the history of Israel: Sumerians, Egyptians, Hittites, Phoenicians | Sumerians- Abraham was born into this civilization Egyptians- The Hebrews were held captive there Hittites-Abraham purchased a burial site from them Phoenicians- responsible for the growth of paganism in Israel |
| astrology | the practice of trying to interpret human events and destiny by the position of the planet and stars |
| List at least one way in which each of the following civilizations played a role in the history of Israel: Assyrians, Chaldeans, and Persians | Assyrians- God used them to punish His people for their disobedience. Chaldeans-destroyed Jerusalem and took Jews captive Persians-freed God's people from captivity in Babylon |
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