Thu., 1/30

Do Now—Exercise 29C—copy the following verbatim:

Parsua – The Parsua, a group of northern mountain-dwellers who were settled just across the Zagros mountains on the western side of Elam, acted as a buffer against Elamite power for the Assyrian kingdom. Later the Parsua would be named the Persians by the Greeks.

Arcadia – Arcadia, in the center of the southern Greek peninsula called the Peloponnese, was home to the surviving remnants of Mycenaean civilization.

Read:

p. 349, ¶ 3 – end of Ch. 48.

HW—Exercise 29D:

The last sentence of p. 349, ¶ 1 reads, “We have no record of what the queen of Assyria, his sister, said to him when he arrived.” We need to know about two kings in order to understand this sentence.

1) Who were the two kings and how were they related to the queen of Assyria?

2) What happened? Use the Answer Bank to fill in the blanks.

3) What kingdoms did each rule?

Assyria was ruled by __________________

Prior to this incident, Babylon was ruled by __________________

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