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40 Cards in this Set
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Hammurabi |
He was the king of Babylon and created the code of Hammurabi |
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Hittites |
Indo-European people from Anatolia in Asia Minor |
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Tiglath-pileser I |
Seized Babylonia and established the Assyrian Empire |
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Assyrians |
The people of Syria |
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Sennacherib |
King of Assyria (705 BC- 681 BC) |
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Ashurbanipal |
Built the world's first great library at Ninevah |
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Chaldeans |
Semitic people from Arabia |
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Nabopolassar |
Led the Assyrian Empire and helped establish the Neo-Babylonian Empire |
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Nebuchadnesser |
Nabopolassar's son; was a king |
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Daniel |
One of the Jews taken captive by the Babylonians |
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Cyrus the Great |
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 |
Ruled the Persian Empire 521 BC- 486 BC |
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Xerxes I |
Ruled the Persian Empire at it's peak of greatness (486 BC - 465 BC) Married to Esther |
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Ataxerxes I |
Son of Xerxes; one of the rulers of the Persian Empire |
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Abraham |
"Father of a great nation"; given a new name by God |
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Patriarchs |
The founding fathers of the nation of Israel |
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Moses |
Helped save the Israelites from the slavery in Egypt; one of the greatest men in history |
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David |
"A man after God's own heart"; became the second king of Israel |
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Solomon |
Succeed his father, David, in 1015 BC; reigned for 40 years |
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Phoencians |
Semitic seafarers and merchants |
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Mohammed |
An Arabic mystic from the city of Mecca; lead Islam |
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Muslims |
Devoted followers of Mohammed |
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Caliphs |
Muhammed's successors |
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Henry Martyn |
Englishman pioneer missionary in Persia |
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Ion- Keith Falconer |
A Scottish nobleman and graduate of Cambridge University |
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Samuel Zwemer |
Established the Araibian mission |
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Enuma Elish |
Was composed during the reign of Hammurabi in order to exalt Babylon and its cheif god, Marduk |
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Place-Value Notation |
The greatest mathematical achievement of the Babylonians |
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Justice |
The use of authority or power to uphold what is right |
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Hanging Gardens of Babylon |
The tarraced roofed gardens |
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Zoroastrianism
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Religion the Persian kings practiced |
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Covenant |
Solemn agreement |
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Decalouge |
The Ten Commandments |
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Theocracy |
A nation ruled by God |
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Alphabet |
Phonetic system of writting 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 launguge |
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Islam |
A fanatical, militant new religion and place in the Arabian Peninsula |
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Hegria |
Muhammad and his family flees in 622 to Medina |
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Koran |
The holy book of Islam |