Chapters 4-6 Flashcards

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The leaders of Israel during its first 300 years in Canaan

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Judges

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Another name for the Ten Commandments

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Decalogue or Law of Moses

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2
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The first human king of Israel

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Saul

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3
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The Northern Kingdom after Israel split into two separate kingdoms

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Israel

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4
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Asked God for wisdom to rule the kingdom

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Solomon

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5
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Joshua led Israel across this body of water and into Canaan

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Jordan River

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6
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A theocracy is a land ruled by whom?

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God

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7
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God and Israel made a covenant, or solemn agreement, here

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Mt. Sinai

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8
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Deported the ten tribes of the Northern Kingdom

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Shalmaneser V

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9
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Collected a library of 100,000 cuneiform tablets

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Ashurbanipal

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10
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Saw the handwriting on the wall during a great feast

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Balshazzar

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11
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Built the Hanging Gardens

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Nebuchadnezzar

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12
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Allowed the Jews to return to their homeland

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Cyrus

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13
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Daniel was an adviser to these rulers

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Cyrus
Belshazzar
Nebuchadnezzar

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14
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Warned the city of Nineveh of God’s coming judgment

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Jonah

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15
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Interpreted Nebuchadnezzar’s prophetic dream about empires

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Daniel

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16
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Prophesied by Isaiah to be Cyrus’s ally in world conquest

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God

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17
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Blind poet famous for his works the Iliad and the Odyssey

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Homer

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18
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What happened in 776 B.C., the first recorded date in Greek history?

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The first Olympic Games were held

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19
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The supposed king of the Greek gods

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Zeus

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20
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Heroes in Greek mythology

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Achilles or Odysseus

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21
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Where Athenians defeated a Persian landing force

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Marathon

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22
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Hilltop fortress that was the east if government and religion

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Acropolis

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23
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Minoan homeland

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Crete

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Mountain pass where brave Spartans held off Persians
Thermopylae
25
Controlled the Delian League
Athens
26
Rule by the many
Democracy
27
Common laborers in Sparta
Helots
28
Rule by a few rich
Oligarchy
29
Philosopher who drank poison instead of being exiled from Athens
Socrates
30
What the spartan ruling class spent its time doing
Training for war
31
Brought Athenian democracy to its fullest measure
Pericles
32
The war Athens lost
Peloponnesian War
33
A student of Socrates who wrote the dialogues, a series of philosophical works
Plato
34
Lover of wisdom
Philosopher
35
Built the palace at Knossos
Minoans
36
The Macedonian king who conquered almost all of Greece before he was assassinated
Philip II
37
The king of all Greek gods
Zeus
38
The Southern Kingdom of Israel fell to whom?
Chaldeans
39
A government ruled by God
Theocracy
40
Ways the Greeks displayed their humanism
Through their philosophical teaching that man must look to himself to provide the answers to life By creating many false gods that were little more than glorified human beings By emphasizing the beauty if man and his abilities over the Creator of man
41
What kind of city was Tyre
Phoenician
42
The last great Assyrian king
Ashurbanipal
43
City that Controlled the Peloponnesian League
Sparta
44
The battle that was a defeat for the Persians
Battle of salamis
45
Tutored Alexander the Great
Aristotle
46
Allowed the Jews to return to their homeland
Belshazzar
47
Led the brave Spartans at the Battle of Thermopylae
Leonidas
48
The Hittites weapons were made of
Iron
49
Went insane and lived like an animal for seven years
Nebuchadnezzar
50
Pushed Israel to its greatest extent
David
51
Goddess of wisdom
Athena
52
Young Greek conqueror
Alexander
53
Ancestor of the Greeks
Javan
54
Great Athenian statesman
Pericles
55
Built the Royal Road
Darius
56
Godly adviser to many kings
Daniel
57
The Greek credited with creating the Iliad and the Odyssey
Homer
58
The Southern Kingdom of Israel
Judah
59
Greek tribes and villages united to form a
Polis
60
Solomon asked for this to help him rule his kingdom
Wisdom
61
Israel's neighbors who were a sea-trading people
Phoenicians