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Persia and Palestine · 1001 Questions and Answers on General History

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  Chapter five of one thousand one Questions and Answers on General History. This is
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  a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more
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  one thousand one Questions and Answers on General History by Benjamin Hathaway. Persia and
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  Palestine. One. Where is Persia in southwestern Asia south of the Caspian Sea?
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  Two? What is the native name of Persia Iran? Three? In
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  two? How many states or provinces is it divided? Twenty two large and
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  ten small ones? Four? What is the capital and largest city Tehran?
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  Five? What is the biblical name for Persia? Elam? Six? Who
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  founded the Persian Empire and when Cyrus the Great in the sixth century BC?
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  Seven? What was its extent? It reached from the Eegean Sea to India
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  beyond the Euphrates. Eight? What did it include Media, Assyria, Babylon,
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  Asia Minor and Syria? Nine? By whom was he succeeded his son
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  Cambyses. Ten What was the chief event of the reign of Cambyses The invasion
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  and conquests of Egypt? In a single battle eleven. What stratagem did he
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  use? He placed before the army cats, dogs and other animals sacred to
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  the Egyptians Twelve? How did the Persians regard these two kings they called Cyrus
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  Father and Cambyses despot thirteen? Who was called the second founder of the Persian
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  Empire Darius I? Fourteen did he accomplish? He perfected the organization of the
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  empire, dividing it into twenty three provinces, over which he placed governors called
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  by the Persian Satraps fifteen Who was the son and successor of Darius Xerxes sixteen?
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  What great invasion did Xerxes attempt to conquer Greece seventeen? Was he successful?
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  He was not terrified by the destruction of his fleet. He fled into
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  Asia eighteen What effect did this failure have on Xerxes? He gave up to
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  luxury and was finally murdered by two of his servants in the year four hundred
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  sixty five BC. Nineteen What great change took place in the year three hundred
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  thirty one BC the Empire became a Grecian province twenty Who produced this change?
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  Alexander the Great Twenty one. What is the present government of Persia? It
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  is an absolute monarchy twenty two. What is the title of the ruler,
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  king or Shah twenty three. What one thing limits the power of the shaw
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  his inability to set aside any of the accepted doctrines of Mohammedanism Twenty four.
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  What were the characteristics of the Persians? Originally they were a hearty race of
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  simple manners and great courage in war. In later days they grew to be
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  luxurious and effeminate twenty five. What was the great end of Persian education?
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  To ride, to draw the bull, and to speak the truth? Twenty
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  six? What was notable in their architecture, broad sculptured staircases and tall,
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  slender columns Twenty seven. What wonderful ruins are in Persia Persepili, the magnificent
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  capital of the ancient empire, consisting now of fragments of the palaces of Xerxes,
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  Cyrus, and Darius, and the royal tombs Twenty eight. What was
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  the religion of the early Persians? A simple worship of the spirit of good
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  and a belief in an evil spirit to be hated and shnned Twenty nine What
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  did it become. Later the people became converts to the religion of zoroast and
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  worshiped the element of fire under priests called Meiji. Thirty What is said of
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  the power of the national customs of ancient Persia? The king was bound by
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  them as closely as his subjects. His command, once given, could not
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  be revoked even by himself. Hence arose the phrase unchangeable as the laws of
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  the medes and Persians. Thirty one. Where was ancient Palestine a part of
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  Syria lying between the Dead Wilt on the east and the Mediterranean Sea? Thirty
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  two? By what other names is it known? Holy Land and sometimes Judea?
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  Thirty three? How many divisions in Palestine four thirty four what are they?
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  Galilee, Samaria, Judea and the elevated district east of the Jordan thirty
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  five? Which was the most important province Judea? Thirty six. What was
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  the capital of Palestine Jerusalem? Thirty seven? Who made it the capital?
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  King David? Thirty eight. Why is it called Palestine? It is derived
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  from the Hebrew word Pelistia. Thirty nine. What is the principal river the
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  Jordan? Forty Describe the river Jordan? It rises in the Lebanon Mountains,
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  and, after flowing thirteen miles, enters Lake Tiberius, which is six hundred
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  twenty feet above the level of the sea. Then, flowing south a distance
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  of one hundred miles, it enters the Dead Sea, which is one thousand,
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  three hundred feet below the level of the Mediterranean Forty one What was Palestine
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  called in ancient times the land of Canaan? Forty two What do we know
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  of the early history of the Hebrews. Abram, founder of the Hebrews,
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  came from Chaldea about two thousand b c. They lived, like the Arabs
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  of to day, in tents with their flocks and herds. Later generations were
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  invited to settle in Egypt, where they were subsequently greatly oppressed and finally rescued
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  from bundage by Moses forty three, who accomplished the conquests of Palestine. Joshua,
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  the successor to Moses, destroyed thirty one cities of Canaan in six years
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  of hard fighting, and allotted the country to the twelve tribes of Israel forty
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  four. Named the three greatest kings of Israel, Saul, David, and
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  Solomon each reigned forty years forty five. Who was Saul, the first king
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  of Israel chosen of God through the prophet Samuel forty six. What was the
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  character of David's reign? He enlarged the boundaries of Palestine, fixed the capital
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  at Jerusalem, organized an army, and enforced the worship of Jehovah as the
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  national religion. Forty seven described the reign of Solomon. It was the most
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  splendid period of Jewish history. He built the Great Temple in Jerusalem, erected
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  magnificent palaces, and sent expeditions to India and Arabia. Forty eight. What
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  occurred after Solomon's death? The Empire was rent into the petty kingdoms Israel and
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  Judah, the former containing ten tribes, the latter two forty nine. What
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  was the fate of the Kingdom of Israel. It was idolatrous, and after
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  much tormol and many vicissitudes, the people vanished from history. They are known
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  as the Lost Tribes. Fifty What happened to the Kingdom of Judah. It
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  retained the national religion and existed for nearly four hundred years. Then Nebuconezzar destroyed
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  Jerusalem and sent the king and many of the inhabitants in chains to Babylon.
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  Fifty one What was the restoration After a captivity of seventy years, the Jews
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  were allowed by Cyrus to return to Judea and rebuild their temple. Fifty two.
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  When was Jerusalem taken by Rome and seventy eighty by Titus after a siege
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  of untold horror? Fifty three What was done with the Jews? They were
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  scattered as slaves or exiles fifty four Who as rue Palestine most of the time
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  since then? The Saracens and Turks, both Mohammedans. Fifty five What were
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  the Crusades and when did they occur? They were pilgrimages made to Palestine during
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  the Middle Ages by the people of Europe for the purpose of rescuing Jerusalem from
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  Mohammadan power. Fifty six Were they successful? They were not? Fifty seven
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  Who rules Palestine at present? It is subject to the Turks. Fifty eight.
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  How has the Jewish nation influenced the world? Its sacred books constitute the
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  Bible, and its religion has molded the faith of the most civilized nations.
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  Fifty nine What great interest has the Hebrew come in wealth? For us,
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  it was the first republic of which we have definite knowledge. Sixty What was
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  the character of the Mosaic laws? They were mouthed and far beyond the spirit
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  of the the age. Sixty one How was learning regarded by the Hebrews.
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  It was held in high esteem, and everyone received what we should call a
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  common school education. Also, every boy was compelled to learn a trade in
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  of Chapter five,