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15 Cards in this Set
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Levant
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The strip along the Mediterranean Sea
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Southern Levant
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Southern most 1/2; basically middle? of Lebanon; land bridge?
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Syro-Palestine
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Basically the same of Southern Levant?
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Holy Land / Land of the Bible
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Usually Israel, Jordan
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Geographical Determinism
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Its geography determines its fate; attractive coastal area
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The Great Rift Valley
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The deepest fissure on the earth?
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Coastal Plain
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Attractive because on the shore; the Philistine or Phoenecian Plain?
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Shephelah
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-Low-lying
-Basically the next north-south partition -Some important trade routes went through here -Gets a decent amount of rain here |
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Tel Lachish
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-2nd most important city in Biblical times after Jerusalem
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Tel
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An artificial mound
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Lebanon range
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-Hill country
-West Bank -Inhospitable -not a lot of water sources -built terraces |
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Mt. Hermon
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Source of the Jordan River
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Anti-Lebanon Range
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Beyond this in Jordan is desert
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Kathleen Kenyon
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-learned her strategraphic methods from other countries
-Wheeler-Kenyon method -She was all about the vertical -The baulk- strip of dirt shows stratigraphy |
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Judges- II Kings
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Where there is history embedded
-Judges- 1200-1000 BCE (Iron Age) -II Kings- 1000-586 BCE (Iron II) |
