Sumer
This area is where the Garden of Eden was located
Where is "Fertile Crescent" or between the Tigris and Euphrates
The meaning of the word "Babylon"
What is "Gate of God" OR "To confuse"
This is the larges continent
What is Asia?
World's largest desert
What is the Sahara?
Africa was known as this
What is "The Dark Continent?"
The meaning of "Mesopotamia"
What is "between the rivers"?
This is what Hammurabi desired above all else
What is "Justice?"
This religion says god is absolute, impersonal, and universal
What is Hinduism?
3 areas provided protection from invasion for Egypt
What are the Mediterranean Sea, Sahara Desert, and Red Sea?
It stayed unexplored until this time
Sumer developed this writing form
What is Cuneiform?
This religion quickly overran the Middle East and North Africa in the 600s and 700s
What is Islam?
This country contributed to mathematics by way of
"0", place value, Algebra, and Arabic numbers
What is India?
First pharaoh to unite and rule Egypt
Who is Menes?
2 deserts that cover the northern and southern parts of Africa
What are Sahara (northern) and Kalahari (Southern)?
Huge temple-towers
What are "Ziggurats"?
This King was called "my shepherd" and "my anointed" in the Bible
What was Cyrus the Great?
Oldest living civilization
What is China?
2 cities in Egypt that were prophesied about in the Bible, regarding their destruction
What were Thebes and Memphis?
3 of Noah's sons that migrated to Africa from Babel
Who are Mizraim, Phut, and Cush?
4 social classes of ancient Sumer
What are Nobles, Commoners, Clients, and Slaves?
Israel had no home until this date/year
When is 1948?
This person created the largest continental empire in history
Who is Genghis Khan?
Egyptian faith was emphasized by these 3 characteristics
What are Humanism, Naturalism, and Polytheism?
2 greatest North African Christians
Who were Athanasius of Alexandria and Augustine of Hippo?