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33 Cards in this Set
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the first empire to rule the Middle East after Sumer.
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Babylon
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king of Babylon.
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Hammurabi
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was composed during the reign of Hammurabi in order to exalt Babylon and its chief god, Marduk.
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Babylonian Genesis
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the greatest mathematical achievement of the Babylonians.
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place-value notation
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the greatest achievement of the Old Babylonian Empire.
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government and law
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is the use of a authority and power to uphold what is right, just, or lawful.
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justice
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the first people to use iron extensively.
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Hittites
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Assyria's first great monarch.
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Tiglathpileser I
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the last great monarch of Ninevah, the world's first great library.
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Ashurbanipal
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established the Neo-Babylonian Empire.
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Nabopolassar
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destroyed Jerusalem in 586 B.C.
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Nebuchadnezzar
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the terraced roof gardens.
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Hanging Gardens of Babylon
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one of the Jews taken captive by the Babylonians, eventually became an important official in Babylon.
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Daniel
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God of Israel had called "my shepherd" and "my anointed"
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Cyrus the Great
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was merely the sectoin of modern Iran bordering the Persian Gulf in the south-west.
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Persia
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rules when the Persian Empire reached its greatest extent.
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Darius I and Xerxes I
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established the world's first postal service.
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Darius I
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was the husband of Queen Esther.
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Ahasuerus
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Nehemiah was the cupbearer to his successor.
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artaxerxes I
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the Persian kings pagan religion.
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Zoroastrianism
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the land God promised Abraham and his descendants.
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Canaan, Palestine, and Israel
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the world's three great monotheistic religions.
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Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
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the greatest variety of climate and topography of any country in the world.
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Israel
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the main highway of the ancient world.
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Canaan
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"father of a great nation"
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Abraham
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the founding fathers of the nation of Israel.
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patriarchs
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one of the greatest men in world history. lead the Israelites from Egyptian bondage and to lead them into land promised to their fathers.
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Moses
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solemn agreement.
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covenant
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a summary of the basic principles of morality.
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Ten Commandments
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a nation ruled by God.
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theocracy
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a phonetic system of writing in which letters are used to represent sounds rather than things or ideas.
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alphabet
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the ability to read and write one's own language.
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literacy
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the Messiah of Israel and the Savior of the world, was born while Rome ruled the world.
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Jesus Christ
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