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40 Cards in this Set
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Hammurabi |
king of Babylon |
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Hittites |
an Indo-European people from Anatolia in Asia Minor (modern Turkey) |
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Tiglath- pileser I |
seized Babylonia and established the Assyrian Empire about 1100 B.C. |
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Assyrians |
an inhabitant of ancient Assyria |
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Sennacherib |
king of Assyria 705 BC–681 BC |
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Ashurbanipal |
Babylons last great monarch served from 668-630 B.C. |
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Chaldeans |
A Semitic people from Arabia, formed a coalition with the Medes and Scythians and overthrew the Assyrian Empire about 600 B.C. |
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Nabopolassar |
they established the Neo-Babylonian Empire |
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Nebuchadnezzar |
ruled the Chaldeans, controlled the fertile all the fertile Cresent including the southern kingdom of Judah |
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Daniel |
one of the Jews taken into captive by the Babylonians, eventually became an important official in Babylon |
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Cyrus the Great |
this monarch and his successors built an Empire that streached from Egypt to India |
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Darius I |
ruled Judah from 521- 486 B.C. |
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Xerxes I |
ruled when the Persian EMpire reached its greatest extent (486-465 B.C.) |
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Artaxers |
the fifth king of persia |
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Abraham |
he led his family westward across the fertile cresent to Canaan |
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Patriarchs |
the founding fathers of the nation of Isreal |
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Moses |
Delivered the Isrealites from slavery |
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David |
Established his capitol at the former Jebusite stronghold of Jerusalem and became a ruler of a united monarchy |
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Solomon |
the wisest king of Isreal |
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Phoenicians |
an ancient Semitic thalassocratic civilazation situated on the western, coastal part f the fertile cresent |
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Mohammed |
the prophet of Islam |
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Muslim |
an Islamic religion |
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Caliph |
a person considered a political and religious successor to the Islamic prophet |
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Henry Martyn |
An Anglican priest and missionary to the people of India and Persia |
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Ion-Keith Falconer |
A scottish missionary and Arbic scholar |
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Samuel Zwemer |
the apostle of Islam |
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Enuma Elish |
a clay tablet with history on it |
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Place- Value Notation |
is a method for representing numbers |
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justice |
just behavior or treatment |
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Hanging Gardens of Babylon |
one of the seven wonders of the Ancient World |
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Zoroastrianism |
a pagan religion |
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covenant |
solemn aggrement |
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Decalogue |
the Ten Commandments |
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Theocracy |
nation ruled by God |
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Alphabet |
a phonetic system of writing in which letters are used to represent sounds rather than things or ideas |
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Sinai Script |
the first true alphabet |
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Literacy |
the ability to read and write one's own language |
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Islam |
a fanatical, militant new religion in the Arabian Peninsula |
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Hegira |
flight |
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Koran |
The holy book of Islam |
