World History

History quiz 4 unit 1 

13 cards   |   Total Attempts: 182
  

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Persian history began with the
Medes
According to Daniel 5:31 Babylon was taken by:
Darius the Mede
In the history of Israel, Persian rule is known as the
Restoration
Who defeated the Persians in 331 B.C., ending Persian rule?
Alexander
The Restoration leaders who wrote books of the Bible were Ezra and
Nehemiah
The early Persians worshiped gods of:
Nature
fertilitythe heavens
Zoroaster believed in doing good, not evil.
True
Persian administration laid the foundations for government in the_____ Empire.
Roman
Governors of the provinces were called:
Satraps
contemporary
Belonging to the same period of time; coexistent.
Isaiah 45:1-4,
He made a remarkably explicit prediction
Explain how the Persians were not like the Assyrians or the Babylonians. Give at least one example from each culture.
The Persians were not like the Assyrians or the Babylonians because they were tolerant of people. They took stuff from people that the Babylonians and Assyrians didn't.
(465-423 B.C.)
Artaxerxes was the contemporary of Ezra and Nehemiah