Assyria, Neo-Babylonian Empire, Persian Empire, Ancient Greece
Places and Geography
Aegean Sea
Ashur
Assyria
Athens
Corinth
Ecbatana
Hellespont
Ionia
Israel
Jerusalem
Judah
Lachish
Lydia
Macedonia
Media
Nineveh
Persepolis
Persia
Sardis
Sparta
Susa
Tema
Thebes (Greece)
Thrace
Know the basic facts (who, what, when, where) about the following names or terms.
People Groups
Assyrians
Israelites
Judeans / Jews
Magi
Medes
Persians
Philistines
Phoenicians
Sea Peoples
Kingdoms and Empires
Kingdom of Media
Kingdom of Lydia
Neo-Assyrian Empire
Neo-Babylonian Empire
Persian Empire
Kings and Rulers
Artaxerxes I
Ashurbanipal
Astyges
Bardiya / Smerdis
Cambyses II
Croesus
Cyrus (II) the Great
Darius (I) the Great
David
Esarhaddon
Hezekiah
Jehu
Leonidas
Nabopolassar
Nabonidus
Nebuchadnezzar
Pericles
Sargon II
Saul
Sennacherib
Shalmaneser III
Shalmaneser V
Solomon
Solon
Tiglath-Pileser III
Xerxes I
Zedekiah

People
Atossa
Belshazzar
Harpagus
Hystaspes
Mandane
Zoroaster
Deities
Ahura Mazda
Angra Mainyu
Apis
Asshur
Marduk (or Bel)
Nabu
Sin
Artifacts
Behistun Inscription
Cyrus Cylinder
Lachish Reliefs
Ishtar Gate lamassu statues
Oxus gold chariot
Sennacherib’s Prism
Terms archon democracy ephor hoplite phalanx polis (city-state) sarissa satrap / satrapy siege tyrant vassal
Events
722 BC Fall of Israel to the Assyrians
612 BC Fall of Nineveh to the Babylonians and
Medes
586 BC Fall of Jerusalem to the Babylonians
546 BC Conquest of Lydia by Persia
539 BC Fall of Babylon to Persia
530 BC Death of Cyrus the Great
525 BC Conquest of Egypt by Persia
522 BC Death of Cambyses II and rise of Darius to power
490 BC Battle of Marathon
480 BC Battle of Thermopylae
479 BC Battle of Plataea