A Civilization Emerges in Sumer
What did Sumerians build their cities with due to the lack of materials they faced?
bricks made of clay
or
used clay and water to create brick.
Who was the god of the afterlife?
Osiris
Who is the “they” referred to in the following quotation? Who created it?
They also established a number system based on six, dividing the hour into 60 minutes and the circle into 360 degrees, as we still do today.
Sumerians
What Egyptian structure was complex because it had a head of human and a body of a lion that also displayed capability of highly organized efforts.
The Sphinx
Re is known as the god of what
The Sun God
Sumerians invented a form of writing that involved wedge-shaped marks called ...
Cuneiform
A shared heritage of Jews and Christians is known as
the Judeo-Christian tradition.
What religion did Zoroaster help teach a never-ending battle between good and evil — a contest between the religion's God, Ahura Mazda, and an evil spirit, Ahriman. This religion held conflict in the view of the world.
Zoroastrianism
What did Egyptian engineers use to calculate the exact size and location of each block of stone to be used in construction of a pyramid or temple.
Geometry
Who built Ishtar Gate, a gate that provided an entry point to the city through defensive walls.
King Nebuchadnezzar.
Who established a number system based on six, dividing the hour into 60 minutes and the circle into 360 degrees, as we still do today.
Sumerians
What region did Gods covenant with Abram declare to be the Israelites promise land.
Canaan
Which ruler is most likely to have built the Hanging Gardens of Babylon?
Nebuchadnezzar
What did Champollion, a french scholar, do that allowed other scholars to read many other Ancient Egyptian writings.
deciphered the Rosetta Ston
Amon-Re is known as the god of what?
The King of Gods
Who created the first known Empire.
Sargon
During the Babylonian captivity period when Nebuchadnezzar destroyed the great temple he forced who to leave
The Ancient Jews
What is a system of government through departments and subdivisions administered by officials who follow set rules
Bureaucracy
In Organization of Egyptian Society, women were NOT able to hold which of the following as jobs?
scribes or hold government jobs
Who united the two regions of ancient Egypt - Upper and Lower Egypt
Menes
The Assyrians were not known for their learning even though they had one of the world’s first libraries in the world instead they were known as ...
Feared Warriors
What single god did Zoroaster reject all traditional gods for?
Ahura Mazda
What did Darius create that helped the economic links among his far-flung subjects
Gold Coins
or
also known as a single Persian coinage
What did the Egyptians use as a guide to survive the dangerous journey through the underworld.
The Book of the dead
Who united the 12 tribes into a single nation
David