BABYLON
The literal meaning of the word "Mesopotamia".
Answer: What is "Land between the rivers"?
The Jewish prophet sent to warn Nineveh of God's coming judgment, leading the city to briefly repent.
Answer: Who is Jonah?
One of the prominent Jewish individuals taken captive by the Babylonians.
Answer: Who is Daniel?
According to Genesis 12:7, the group promised the land of Canaan by the LORD.
Who are Abram's descendants? Israelites
True or False: Under David and Solomon around 1000 B.C., Israel was considered the greatest nation in the world.
Answer: What is True?
The names of the 3 oldest Sumerian settlements.
Answer: What are Eridu, Uruk, and Ur?
The capital city of the Assyrian Empire.
Answer: What is Nineveh?
The Babylonian ruler responsible for destroying Jerusalem in 586 B.C. and taking Judah captive.
Answer: Who is Nebuchadnezzar?
The three major monotheistic religions that view the Promised Land as the Holy Land.
Answer: What are Judaism, Christianity, and Islam?
The technological advancement that allowed the Hittites to dominate Asia Minor and Syria for centuries.
Answer: What are Iron weapons?
Prompt: The use of authority and power to uphold what is right, just, or lawful.
Answer: What is justice?
The two Assyrian kings responsible for the fall of the Northern Kingdom of Israel in 721 B.C.
Answer: Who are Shalmaneser V and Sargon II?
The chief architectural achievements that made the Chaldeans famous in ancient times.
Answer: What are the Hanging Gardens and the city walls of Babylon?
True or False: A "theocracy" is defined as a nation ruled directly by a military king.
Answer: What is False? (A theocracy is ruled directly by God).
rue or False: The name "Canaan" comes from Ham's son of the same name.
Answer: What is True?
he person who established the Old Babylonian Empire and left behind a famous law code.
Answer: Who is Hammurabi?
The Assyrian king who built the world's first great library at Nineveh.
Answer: Who is Ashurbanipal?
The empire credited with establishing the world’s first postal service. \
Answer: What is the Persian Empire?
The person from the following list who is NOT one of Israel's three main patriarchs: Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses.
Answer: Who is Moses?
True or False: God placed Israel in a strategic geographical location so they could hide and avoid foreign influences.
Answer: What is False?
The chief god of Babylon and the greatest mathematical achievement of the Old Babylonians.
Answer: What are Marduk and Place Value Notation?
The ruler who established the Assyrian Empire around 1100 B.C.
Answer: Who is Tiglath-pileser I?
How Darius I efficiently governed the Persian Empire by dividing it into administrative units.
Answer: What is dividing the empire into satrapies (governed by satraps)?
The king who established the capital of the united monarchy at Jerusalem, a former Jebusite stronghold.
Answer: Who is King David?
he main achievement of Hammurabi's reign that brought order and unity to the Old Babylonian Empire.
Answer: What is his written code of law (The Code of Hammurabi)?