Tue., 3/3

Do Now—Exercise 35A—Model answer (complete as HW): Number the sentences..………………………………………………………!!!

1.Sennacherib’s successors, Esarhaddon and Ashurbanipal, tried raising Egyptian noble children in Assyria and then using them as vassals in Egypt. 2.Their plan backfired, however, when Psammetichus relied upon the Assyrian army to soundly thrash the Nubian dynasty in Thebes in 663 B.C., securing his position as pharaoh over all Egypt, and then, with some help from the Lydians, drove the Assyrians away. 3.After repelling an attack from the Cimmerians, Medes, and Persians with the help of the Scythians, Ashurbanipal wiped out Elam and deported Elamites to Israel. 4.Phrygian and Lydian colonists who mixed with native Villanovans and became known as the Etruscans helped develop Roman culture and infrastructure. 5.In 610 B.C., the Babylonian king, Nebuchadnezzar, finished the job of obliterating the Assyrian empire (that his father, Nabopolasar, had begun two years earlier with some help from Cyarxes, king of the Medes and Persians) and then married Cyarxes’ daughter, Amytis, and went on to destroy Jerusalem and deport the Hebrews to his magnificent city, Babylon, in 587 B.C.

Read:

Ch. 59 (p. 455) – p. 458, ¶ 1.

HW:

Complete Exercise 35A (above).