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14 Cards in this Set
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What name has been given to God's first command of man found in Genesis 1:28 that man should "subdue" the earth and exercise "dominion" over it?
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The Creation Mandate
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Where do we hear the first glimmer of hope for our fallen race and a glimpse of the gospel?
What did the Lord say? |
Genesis 3:15
"I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel." What does this mean? Although the seed of the woman and the seed of Satan would war, finally God's own Son eventually would crush the serpent's head, a promise fulfilled in Christ's victory over Satan, thus securing our salvation. |
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Through which son of Adam is the line of Christ traced?
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Seth
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Where did the earliest form of writing originate and what is is called
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Sumer, cuneiform
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Name three Sumerian inventions
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Possibilities... the arch, the wheel, division of a circle into 360 degrees, hours and minutes into 60 units
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Amorite king who united Mesopotamia and is best remembered for his code of laws
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Hammurabi
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Epic flood narrative in Babylonian literature
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Epic of Gilgamesh
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Why did one Greek historian call Egypt the "gift of the river"?
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Because there was almost no rain there, only the Nile held back the menacing desert wasteland. The river's rising every year deposited tons of rich silt on Egypt annually providing fertile soil for the crops. The Nile was also important as a highway; therefore the Nile greatly contributed to a unified Egypt.
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Which Pharoah do most scholars believe refused to let God's people leave Egypt?
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Amenhotep II, (not Rameses as in the Prince of Egypt!
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Describe how the Rosetta Stone was deciphered
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Because the stone was written in Greek, demotic (common Egyptian), and hieroglyphics, the Greek text, which was readily understood, revealed that the same decree was set forth in all three scripts. The difficult task of comparing the known Greek to hieroglyphics was the key, although the task proved to be very arduous.
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Which people supplied needed resources for Solomon's temple? Name the people and one of the resources
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The Phoenicians; cedar
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How did this Phoenicians adversely affect Israel?
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Tyre, the leading Phoenician city-state, advocated the worship of Baal. Jezebel, daughter of a Phoenician king, married Ahab king of Israel. She introduced Baal worship to Israel.
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Discuss why Israel split into two kingdoms and mention its resulting judgment and consequences.
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Oppressive taxation instituted by Solomon, and his son, Rehoboam's, additional tax increase, divided the kingdom into two camps. The northern tribes rebelled and made Jeroboam king, while the southern tribes became the kingdom of Judah, remaining loyal to Rehoboam. The divide resulted not only in constant warfare, but idolatry as well. Eventually God judged Israel in 722 BC and allowed them to be taken captive by the vicious Assyrians; the Chaldeans, also called the Babylonians, destroyed Jerusalem in 586BC and carried many Jews to Babylonia under Nebuchadnezzar's command.
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How is it evident that God did not forsake His people following these judgments?
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God raised up the Persians under Cyrus to free His people from their captivity after the Persians conquered Babylon in 539 BC
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