HI 101-8 Quiz 3 Flashcards
(20 cards)
Assyrian capital
Nineveh
Built world’s first great library (at Nineveh)
Ashurbanipal
Established Neo-Babylonian Empire (Chaldeans)
Nabopolassar
“My shepherd” “My anointed”
Cyrus the Great
Satrapies
Provinces
Satrap
Governor
Darius 1 established
World’s first postal service
Comes from hams son
Canaan
Comes from Philistines
Palestine
Comes from name God gave to Jacob
Israel
Greatest variety of climate and topography of any country in world
Israel
Main highway of ancient world
Canaan
Founding fathers of nation of Israel
Patriarchs
Decalogue
Ten Commandments
Much like our consonant-vowel blends
Syllabaries
Phonetic system of writing in which letters are used to represent sounds rather than things or ideas
Alphabet
First true alphabet
Sinai script
Ability to read and write one’s own language
Literacy
Greatest nation in world (under david and Solomon)
Israel in 1000 B.C.
Assyria’s first great monarch
Tiglathpilesar