Exam 2: The Promised Land: Geography, History, and Importance

_____________ conquered _____________ in 539 BCE and maintained control of the Levant until 332 BCE.

The political structure of Ammon, Moab, and Edom is best described as a collection of city-states.

The term "Israel" can refer to all of the following except:

Another name for Jerusalem is:

The Israelites were the first inhabitants of Israel.

__________________ has enabled archaeologists to dated excavated materials with greater accuracy.

The ____________ blame everyone, including the common men and women of Israel and Judah, for the Babylonian exile.

Psalm 137 portrays all of the following except:

The terms "Levant" and "Canaan" are equivalent.

The ____________ Empire is described as "the rod" of Yahweh's anger that was used to punish his sinful people.

The king who released the deportees from Babylon in 538 bce was:

The group of city-states that formed diplomatic alliances and intermarried with the royal family of Israel is known as:

The term _______________ refers to the lands adjacent to the eastern Mediterranean Sea, the western part of the Near East between modern Turkey and Egypt.

In what ways did the period known as the Babylonian Exile function "as the impetus for preserving, editing, and developing the writings of the Hebrew Bible"?

Mesopotamia means "in the middle of the rivers."

Judeans living in exile remembered Yahweh's covenant with their king, __________, to establish an eternal kingdom.

The word "Palestine" is derived from the word for _______________.

The traditional eastern boundary of Israel is:

The words "Jew" and "Judaism" are derived from the name "Judah."

_____________ was a group of city-states on the northwest portion of the Fertile Crescent along the Mediterranean.