ENGL 390 Chapter 2: TOTch2p15-26
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Term -> promised land: the territory god promised to give to abraham and to his descendants forever; the land of israel. Bce: term -> babylonia: conquered assyria; most of the sixth century bce, term -> persia: conquered babylonia; late sixth through the late fourth centuries. Important names and terms: assyria: kingdom in northern mesopotamia that ruled much of the near east during the first millennium bce. They captured the northern kingdom of israel in. 722 bce and laid siege to jerusalem in 701 bce: babylon: the capital city of babylonia, a kingdom in southern mesopotamia that ruled much of the near east in the late seventh and sixth centuries bce. They laid siege to jerusalem in 597nand destroyed it in 586, exiling many of its inhabitants to babylonia: canaan: the name of the promised land before the israelite conquest. In second millennium bce egyptian sources, it refers to the entire southern levant.
