Answer Key:
- Sardanapalus died and the Medes took Nineveh
- Babylon
- Nebuchadnezzar
- A - Egypt
- The highways of traffic connecting the Mediterranean with the farther East
- Judeans
- Josiah of Judah
- Daniel
- Nice climate and abundant food
- Egypt
- Answers will vary
- Answers will vary
- 43 years
- Hanging Gardens
- Bel
- Answers will vary, but should include the fact that the land is very barren except during the flood season, and irrigation was therefore necessary for agriculture
- Answers will vary, but should center around some sort of psychological ailment
- Answers will vary, but should center around the idea that the more evidence there is, the better (Explaining this to students, you might want to focus on a criminal trial, since most kids will have seen "Law and Order" or something like it. Each source is like a witness or piece of evidence in a trial. No one would be convicted based on one biased witness, and in the same way. historians cannot be safely certain of the truth of a piece of evidence unless it is duplicated elsewhere.)
- Many of the Hebrews rose to positions of power in Babylon
- Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego
- Answers will vary
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