Herod built this technologically state-of-the art port city on the coast of modern day Israel:

This Hasmonean Queen ruled from 76-67 BCE, being the only woman to reign over Judea.

This wealthy sect of ancient Israel were assimilationists in terms of Greco-Roman culture, although unlike their major competitor group, they believed in leaving the Torah alone and not overlaying new laws and interpretations on top of it.

Later in his life, when he was terrified of scandals unfolding in his family, Herod turned to this person for help:

The year that Herod died, and thus, roughly speaking, the year that the Book of Matthew tells us Jesus was born:

This populist sect of ancient Judea believed in overlaying interpretations and new laws on top of the ones written in the Torah.

Herod’s father Antipater helped this Roman in a war in Alexandria.

This Roman wandered into Judea in 63 BCE after annexing the province of Syria, finding himself in the middle of a civil war.

This Hasmonean King, on the throne briefly from 67-66 BCE, volunteered to give the throne up so that his brother could rule, and was a longtime associate of the Herodian clan.

This structure was built ex manubis, or with the spoils of the first Jewish-Roman War of 66-73 CE.

The land of Herod’s mother, to the east of the Dead Sea, was called:

Herod’s eldest son, named after Herod’s father, was called:

This Hasmonean noble, at the beginning of the 30s BCE, allied with Parthia in a bid to get Rome and the Herodians out of Judea.

Herod’s home country, to the south of the Dead Sea, was called:

This Roman bears the most immediate responsibility for the First Jewish-Roman War of 66-73 CE.