Test III Flashcards
(30 cards)
Iron III/Babylonian
586-539
Iron IIC/ Assyrian
720-586
Neo-Assyrian Winged Bull Raised Relief
Stone
Palace of Sargon II
Dur Sharrukin
Ca. 720 BCE
Who was the last king of Israel?
Hoshea
Who campaigned in Israel and sieged Lachish in 701 BCE
Sennacherib
Details from the Siege of Lacish
701
Palace of Sennacherib
Nineveh
What did Assyrians do to conquered people?
Deported them.
Who built a tunnel under jerusalem so water could be accessed during siege?
Hezrkiah
Sennacherib Prisms
ceramic
Nineveh
Where is the Ishtar Gate?
Babylon
When did Nineveh fall to the Neo-Babylonians?
612
Cyrus the Great Cylinder
539
Who are the important Persian kings between 559-478 BCE
Cyrus II (the Great), Darius I, Xerxes
What battle did Darius lead the Persians against the Greeks?
Marathon (490)
What battles did Xerxes lead the Persians against the Greeks?
Thermopylea and Salamis (480)
What society creates a courier system?
The Persians.
Early Hellenistic
332-198
Alexander the Great
356-323
What was the cataclysmic battle between the Roman legion and the Greek hoplite phalynx?
Cinoscephalae (197)
Late Hellenistic
198-63
Who expelled the Seleucids from Yehud Medinata?
The Hasmoneans (Maccabean Revolt)
What Seleucid king forbade Judaism?
Antiochus IV
Marble Head of Alexander with Red Pigment
Beth Shean
200 BCE
Hefzibah Inscription
Correspondence in Greek between Antiochus III and Ptolemy son of Thraseas
limestone
Beth Shean Valley
ca 201-195 BCE