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22 Cards in this Set
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Assyria
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originally a small area in the rolling hill country of the upper Tigris River valley but which at the peak of its greatness, included all of the fertile crescent, part of central Asia Minor, and Egypt
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Assyrians
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named after Shem's son Asshur who built the city of Assur; conquered Israel and Judah; deported the nations they conquered
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Tiglath-pileser III
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the Assyrian king who began to drive to build a world empire in earnest during the 700s B.C.
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Shalmaneser V
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the Assyrian king who deported the ten tribes of the Northern Kingdom
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Ashurbanipal
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the last Assyrian king; he collected a library of about 100,000 cuneiform clay tablets
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Jonah
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the Jewish prophet who warned the Assyrians that God would punish them if they did not repent
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Sennacherib
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the Assyrian king who boasted that the God of Judah could do no better than the gods of the other peoples he had already conquered; in response, God destroyed all of the Assyrian forces
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the three nations which invaded Assyria
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the Chaldeans from southern Mesopotamia, the Medes from the east, and the Scythians from the north
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Nahum
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the book in the Bible prophesies about the fall of Nineveh
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When did Nineveh fall?
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612 B.C.
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Chaldeans
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conquered all of Mesopotamia and established the New, or Second, Babylonian Empire
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King Nabopolassar
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the Chaldean king who formed an alliance with the Medes and the Scythians; under him, the Chaldeans conquered all of Mesopotamia and established the Chaldean Empire
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Second or New Babylonian Empire
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the empire established by King Nabopolassar; the First or Old Babylonian Empire was Hammaurabi's Empire
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Nebuchadnezzar
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Nabopolassar's son; under him the Chaldeans destroyed Jerusalem and carried the inhabitants of Judah away
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Daniel
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an Israelite captive who eventually became the chief adviser to Nebuchadnezzar
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Nabonidus
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the last Chaldean king; his son Belshazzar actually ruled because Nabonidus cared more for travel rather than for government
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Belshazzar
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the son of Nabonidus who handled the actual business of government in Babylon while his father was king
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Who invaded Babylon?
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the Medes and the Persians
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Indo-Europeans
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Japheth's descendants who settled the continent of Europe and even reached as far as India in Asia
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Cyrus the Great
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the great Persian leader who united the Persians and led the to victory over the Medes and many other nations; he used many clever strategies in his conquests; he allowed the Jews to return to Israel
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Darius
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the Persian leader who helped to make the Middle East a common market by making taxation uniform and systematic and standardizing weights, measures, and units of money
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"Royal Road"
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the road which stretched over 1600 miles from Susa, the Persian capital, to Sardis, a city in Asia Minor.
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