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18 Cards in this Set
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Tiglath-pileser III |
Under his rule, the drive to build a world empire started. |
World empire. |
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Shalmaneser V |
He deported the ten tribes of the northern kingdom to Israel. |
Deported tribes |
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Ashurbanipal |
The last great Assyrian king, who collected a library of about 10,000 cuneiform tablets |
Collected tablets. |
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Jonah |
A Jewish prophet who warned Nineveh of gods coming judgement. |
Jewish prophet |
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Sennacherib |
An Assyrian king who boasted that the god of Judah could do no better than the gods of the peoples he had already conquered, who was defeated by God. |
Assyrian king |
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Nahum |
A prophets book filled with biblical prophecies who prophesied the destruction of Nineveh. |
Prophets book |
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King Nabopolassar |
Formed an alliance with the Medes and Scythians who had overthrown the Assyrian empire. He conquered mesopotamia and established the Chaldean empire. |
He conquered mesopotamia |
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Nebuchadnezzar |
Under him, the Chaldeans conquered the western part of the fertile crescent, including the southern Kingdom of Judah. |
He conquer d the southern Kingdom of Judah. |
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Daniel |
A captive who eventually became the chief assistant to Nebuchadnezzar |
Their assistant |
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Nabonidus |
A Chaldean king, that by the time of his rule, the Chaldeans would openly blasphem God. |
Blasphem God. |
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Belshazzar |
Nabonidus' son who was not king, but actually ruled the chaldeans. He took care of the business if the government while his dad traveled. |
Son who actually ruled the ch- |
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Cyrus the great |
United the Persians and led them to victory over the Medes. He also led the Jews back to Judah. |
United the Persians |
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Isaiah |
A prophet who wrote that God would be Cyrus's ally in world conquest hundreds of years ago. |
A prophet who wrote that god- |
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Darius |
A Christian Persian king who used tax money to build a temple. He made the middle east a giant market place. |
A Christian Persian king. |
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Nineveh |
A city in Assyria that later replaced Assur as the Capitol of the Assyrian empire. Nimrod built it. |
A city in Assyria |
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Hanging gardens |
A structure of receding terraces supported by arches and columns and filled with flowers and trees. |
A structure if receding terraces |
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Royal Road |
The highway of the Persian Empire, which stretched over 1600 miles from susa, to Sardis, a city in Asia minor. Darius built it. |
The highway of the Persian empire. |
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Nebuchadnezzar |
He destroyed Jerusalem, enslaved all of Judah, conquered the western part of fertile crescent, including the southern Kingdom of Judah, and built his wife the hanging gardens. |
A bad man. He destroyed Jerusalem. |
