Name that Place
Bodies of Water
100
What is the Fertile Crescent?
100
The great body of salt water to the west of the Fertile Crescent
What is the Great Sea (Mediterranean Sea)?
200
The Greek name for "Land between (two) rivers"
What is Mesopotamia?
200
The two major rivers in Mesopotamia
What are Euphrates and Tigris?
300
The area of land that lay below the curve of the Fertile Crescent and between the Mediterranean coast and Mesopotamia.
What is the Syrian/Arabian desert?
300
The body of water at the south east end of the Fertile Crescent. The two major rivers of the Mesopotamia empty into it.
What is the Persian Gulf?
400
Abraham's likely birthplace
What is Ur?
400
This body of salt water lies to the north of Anatolia (present-day Turkey). It is roughly oval-shaped and almost entirely landlocked but is connects to the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Black Sea?
500
A city of northern Mesopotamia in which Abraham resided temporarily; here Terah his father died.
What is Haran?
500
This body of freshwater is often associated with Egypt but actually flows thru 11 countries of Africa. It's title as the longest river in the world is contested with that of the Amazon River in South America.
What is the Nile River?
600
Originally, this area was designated as the "land of Shinar." Later, it was known as Babylonia.
What is Chaldea?
600
This worm-shaped body of salt water is south of the Fertile Crescent.
What is the Red Sea?
700
An island situated in the northeast part of the Mediterranean. It is the third largest island in the Mediterranean after Sardinia and Sicily.
What is Cyprus?
700
This body of salt water is roughly northeast of the Fertile Crescent. It is land-locked.
What is the Caspian Sea