-3-page reading report mla format -providing basic historical data, cultural features, and interaction with Israel you can choose one of these topics -Assyrians or Babylonians -Persians (Medes, Elam) -Intertestamental Period (Alexander the Great, Maccabees, etc.) -Roman Empire (from early times through the end of the 1st century) -The Fall of Jerusalem (70 A.D.; consider Josephus’s writings)