The Middle East Vocab

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Hammurabi

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He was the king of Babylon and created the code of Hammurabi

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Hittites

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Indo-European people from Anatolia in Asia Minor

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Tiglath-pileser I

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Seized Babylonia and established the Assyrian Empire

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Assyrians

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The people of Syria

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Sennacherib

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King of Assyria (705 BC- 681 BC)

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Ashurbanipal

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Built the world's first great library at Ninevah

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Chaldeans

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Semitic people from Arabia

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Nabopolassar

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Led the Assyrian Empire and helped establish the Neo-Babylonian Empire

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Nebuchadnesser

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Nabopolassar's son; was a king

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Daniel

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One of the Jews taken captive by the Babylonians

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Cyrus the Great

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Called "my Shepard" by God; one of the most remarkable men in history; one of the rulers of Persia

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Darius I

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Ruled the Persian Empire 521 BC- 486 BC

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Xerxes I

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Ruled the Persian Empire at it's peak of greatness (486 BC - 465 BC) Married to Esther

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Ataxerxes I

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Son of Xerxes; one of the rulers of the Persian Empire

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Abraham

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"Father of a great nation"; given a new name by God

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Patriarchs

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The founding fathers of the nation of Israel

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Moses

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Helped save the Israelites from the slavery in Egypt; one of the greatest men in history

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David

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"A man after God's own heart"; became the second king of Israel

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Solomon

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Succeed his father, David, in 1015 BC; reigned for 40 years

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Phoencians

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Semitic seafarers and merchants

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Mohammed

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An Arabic mystic from the city of Mecca; lead Islam

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Muslims

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Devoted followers of Mohammed

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Caliphs

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Muhammed's successors

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Henry Martyn

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Englishman pioneer missionary in Persia

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Ion- Keith Falconer

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A Scottish nobleman and graduate of Cambridge University

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Samuel Zwemer

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Established the Araibian mission

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Enuma Elish

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Was composed during the reign of Hammurabi in order to exalt Babylon and its cheif god, Marduk

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Place-Value Notation

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The greatest mathematical achievement of the Babylonians

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Justice

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The use of authority or power to uphold what is right

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Hanging Gardens of Babylon

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The tarraced roofed gardens

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Zoroastrianism

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Religion the Persian kings practiced

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Covenant

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Solemn agreement

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Decalouge

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The Ten Commandments

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Theocracy

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A nation ruled by God

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Alphabet

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Phonetic system of writting in which letters are used to represent sounds rather than things or ideas

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Sinai Script

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The first true alphabet

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Literacy

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The ability to read and write one's own launguge

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Islam

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A fanatical, militant new religion and place in the Arabian Peninsula

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Hegria

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Muhammad and his family flees in 622 to Medina

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Koran

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The holy book of Islam