Tue., 2/25

Do Now—Exercise 33E:

List three things Tarquin the Elder (Lucumo) was credited for developing in Rome:

Answers:

1) The Circus Maximus

2) Fortifying the city’s walls

3) Installing a sewage system

Read:

p. 436, ¶ 3 to the end of Ch. 57.

HW

Finish reading to the end of Ch. 57 and complete Exercise 33F.

Exercise 33F—copy the following verbatim:

Josiah of Judah – Josiah took advantage of the Assyrian disintegration to reestablish Hebrew independence. Like Hezekiah, Josiah was a monotheistic reformer. Josiah was killed at Megiddo by Necho II when he attempted to stop the Egyptians from marching up Canaan to support the Assyrians in a fight with the Medes and Chaldaens.

Assur-uballit – The last king of the mighty Assyrian empire, Assur-uballit fell in battle to Nebuchadnezzar in 605 B.C. in Carchemish.

Nebuchadnezzar II – The son of Nabopolassar and son-in-law of Cyarxes, Nebuchadnezzar built the Hanging Gardens of Babylon for his Median wife, Amytis, beat back his Egyptian competitors, and enacted the Babylonian Exile of Jerusalem in 587 B.C.

Shaphan presents the Hebrew Book of the Law” to Josiah after it was discovered by the priest, Hilkiah, during renovations of Solomon’s Temple.