TOG Year 1 Wk 23 UG:The Medes and Persians:The Israelites Return Home
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- satrap
- the governor of a province of the ancient Persian Empire
- satrapies
- the province or dependency controlled by a satrap
- Codified
- to classify and organize, especially into a legal code
- genocide
- the intentional attempt to exterminate all members of a certain race, nationality, or ethnic group
- exterminate
- to get rid of by totally destroying
- dispatch
- to send off to a specific place or for a specific purpose
- province
- one of the administrative divisions of a country or empire
- impaled
- to make immobile or helpless, as with a sharp word or look
- signet ring
- a finger ring that features a small seal or emblem
- decree
- an official and authoritative order or decision, especially by a ruler or government
- gallows
- a wooden frame from which one or more nooses are suspended for the execution by hanging of condemned prisoners
- rubble
- fragments of crumbled or crushed rock, masonry, or the like, as resulting from demolition