worshipped Baal
child sacrifices
shrine-prostitutes
Canaanites
Tyr + Sideom
great builders
Jezebel-Baal worshiper
Phoenicians
Gaza
Goliath
iron smelting/iron weapons
Philistines
Who were the transjordan people
Ammonites, Moabites, Edomites
Descendants of Lot
Moabites
Descendants of Esau; hated by Hebrews
Edomites
worshipped Asshur
cruel people
Capital city: Ninevah
Assyria
King Cyrus-tolerant good
Esther
Persians
King Nebuchanezzar
Advanced culture
Babylonians
altar to Zeus
gymnasium
Greeks