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25 Cards in this Set
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covenant
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solemn agreement
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Mount Sinai
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where God made a covenant with Israel
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theocracy
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rule by God
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Laws of Moses
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another name for the Ten Commandments
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Decalogue
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another name for the Ten Commandments
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Ten Commandments
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the first ten of God's laws which briefly state the principles of morality
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principles of morality
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the basic rules or right and wrong, good and evil
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Joshua
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the man who became the leader of Israel after Abraham died
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Jericho
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the heavily fortified Canaanite city which the Israelites conquered
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judges
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the leaders of Israel during its first 300 years in Canaan
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Saul
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the first king of Israel
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David
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the second king of Israel; he led Israel to the peak of its greatness as a nation-state
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Solomon
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the son of David who became the third king of Israel
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Northern Kingdom
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Israel; conquered by the Assyrian Empire in the 700s B.C.
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Southern Kingdom
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Judah; conquered by the Chaldean Empire in the 500s B.C.
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Phoenicians
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means "blood-red people"; prosperous sea traders; established a great network of trading posts; became famous for the red and purple cloth that they made from murex
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Tyre and Sidon
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two great Phoenician cities
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murex
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a kind of sea snail from which the Phoenicians learned to make dye for their wool and silk cloth
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cedar trees
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used by the Phoenicians to decorate buildings and make fine furniture and sturdy boats
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Carthage
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an great Sumerian city in northern Africa
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alphabet
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the most important thing that the Phoenicians carried with them on their trading ventures which they simply gave away
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Greeks
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developed a "true alphabet" using the Phoenicians alphabet
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Hittites
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an almost completely forgotten neighbor of Israel in world history who lived in Asia Minor and used their resources for war and conquest; they learned how to work with iron and make iron weapons
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Asia Minor
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a peninsula of western Asia between the Black Sea, the Mediterranean Sea, and the Euphrates River
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Hattusas
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the capital of the Hittite Empire
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