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Hebrews |
semitic-speaking people; thier history and origin is in the __________ bible, known to christians as the Old Testament lived in Israel |
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Judaism |
the monotheistic religion of the Jews, having its ethical, ceremonial, and legal foundation in the precepts of the Old Testament and in the teachings and commentaries of the rabbis |
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Abraham |
God promised that he would make this man a father of many nations, land and blessing.......patriach of who the Hebrew's descended from |
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Ur |
The place where abraham the patriarch was born |
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Isaac |
son of abraham and sarah he was the "mama's boy" who relied on God his whole life |
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Jacob |
Issaac's son who stole the blessings from his brother Esau |
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Joseph |
Son of Jacob, his 11 brothers sold him into slavery in egypt and God blessed him by what ever he touched would grow or multiply so he was productive and rose to the second in command in all of Egypt |
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Moses |
Led Hebrews out of egypt in the Exodus |
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The Ten Commandments |
The set of Rules that God sent down to Moses to tell how his people should live |
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Joshua |
Moses' apprentice who went and led the chose people into the promise land(canaan) |
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King Saul |
First king of the Israelites |
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David |
a man after Gods own heart, and God promised that he would have his bloodline on the throne forever(he did sin and broke about all of the ten commandments) |
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Solomon |
David's Son; strengthens the royal power; built the temple in jerusalem holding the Ark of the Covenant |
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Divided Kingdom |
After Solomon's death tensions between the northern and the southern tribes of israel split |
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Israel |
had 10 of the 12 tribes of israel that divided, capital is at Samaria |
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Judah |
had 2 of the 12 tribes of israel that divided, capital is at Jerusalem |
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Monotheism |
belief in one God; To the Jewish people it was YHWH |
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prophets |
People sent by God to serve as his voice to the people |
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Torah |
The Old Testament in the Christian Bible |
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Diaspora |
The scattering of the Jews after Babylonian captivity in 6th century BC |
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Old Testament |
the first of two testaments in the Christian Bible, to the Hebrews it is the Torah |
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Philistines |
These people invaded from the sea and established five towns on the coastal plain.....they used to reside in palestine......they settled down as farmers and eventually came into conflict with the Israelites |
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Phoenicians |
These people where sea traders, that had three major sea ports in Byblos, Tyre, and Sidon.....They also had an alphebet |
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Tiglath-Pileser |
a brutal conquerer (ruler of the assyrian army) that brough power back to assyrian after it experienced a flux of expansion and declining |
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Shalmaneser 3 |
an assyrian ruler that brought power back again to assyria in the 9th century though he made assyria strong again it did not go unchallanged they faced lots of wars |
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Assurbanipal |
one of the strongest assyrian rulers, but when he got the throne it was already over expanded with the nobals fighting thier own little seiges and not as a whole assyria |
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Military Machine |
This is how the assyrians conquered so much, they did not have a large militia but it was decisive, able to fight on any terrain, using seige warfare and guerilla warfare, they also used thier climate of terror to scare other empires from attacking them |
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Chaldeans |
a semitic-speaking peoples also called the neo babylonians this group of people, thier king Nabopolassar joined forces with Medes to capture the Assyrian Capital Nineveh, thier other two kings Nebuchadnezzar who made significant changes to babylon making it famous and Nabonidus was the last king who had great intrest in history collecting scholors to record it |
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Nebuchadnezzar |
the second king of the Chaldean empire his father Nabopolassar built the kingdome up and he continued it putting quite alot of his time into babylon making walls of 8 miles around it, surrounded by a moat filled with the euphrates, and it also had the Ishtar Gate in it and the most famous HANGING GARDENs of babylon |
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Persians |
an Indo-European speaking people who lived in south western Iran, later became a humongeous empire its kings where cyrus the great, cambyses2, darius, and xerxes |
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Cyrus, the great |
a persian ruler he is the first to start the persian empire, he conqueres media, lydia, the Greek city-states along the Ionian Coast, the eastern part of the Iranian Plateau, sogdia and even western india, they also viewed him as kind and compationate |
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Cambyses 2 |
the second famous persian ruler, this king did what cyrus did not get the chance to do and that was take over egypt (with the aid of phoenician fleets) |
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Darius |
Durring this persian king's rule persia was the largest the world had ever seen, he strengthened the empire with codes/laws and a canal to link the red sea and the mediterranian |
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Royal Road |
The road which lead from Sardis to Susa |
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Zoroastrianism |
the religion of persia it focused on the forces of nature, thier priest were magi, it was founded by Zoraster, who wrote thier bible the Zend Avesta. Thier religion had a supreme god who was Ahuramazda which means "Wise Lord", though he was supreme he was not unopposed, there was also an evil god Ahriman |
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Israelites |
semitic-speaking people; thier history and origin is in the Hebrew bible, known to christians as the Old Testament lived in _________ |
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Assyrians |
thier chief town was nineveh they where strong and had a good military, their kings where: sargon of akkad, the third Dynasty of Ur, and the Babylonian king Hamurabi |
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satrapy |
a persian provence run by satraps or governers |
