Between the Rivers
Law and Religion
Israel
Ancient Egypt
Ancient Greece
100

There is strong evidence that it is in fact Eden.

What is Mesopotamia?

100

He received the stone tablets on which God had engraved the Ten Commandments.

Who is Moses?

100

This caused the Hebrew tribes to migrate to Egypt.

What is severe famine?

100

The theory that these people constructed the pyramids is not supported by history or archaeology.

What are Jewish slaves?

100

This city embraced a form of representative democracy.

What is Athens?

200

They were the first people to develop a code of law.

Who were the Sumerians?

200

His laws certainly contributed to Western legal traditions.

Who is Hammurabi?

200

Samuel crowned him as Israel’s first king.

Who is Saul?

200

All firstborn sons in the land of Egypt began dying.

What is the tenth (final) plague?

200

The largest of the Greek city-states.

What is Sparta?

300

In 539 B.C., he took Babylon.

Who is Cyrus?

300

The worldview belief that proclaims God is personally involved with humankind.

What is Theism?

300

After conquering Jerusalem in 588 B.C., they deported the Jews to Babylonia.

Who are the Chaldeans?

300

The location of Alexander’s death.

What is Babylon?

300

The Mycenaean was based essentially on this.

What is warfare?

400

According to myth, he defended the other gods against the diabolical monster Tiamat.

Who is Marduk?

400

This worldview emphasizes the role of language, power relations, and motivations.

What is postmodernism?

400

He was born in Jerusalem about 623 B.C.

Who is Daniel?

400

Her death marked the end of the Egyptian monarch’s.

Who is Cleopatra?

400

The father of modern medicine.

Who is Hippocrates?

500

An ancient story of a hero recorded on 12 clay tablets around 1200 B.C.

What is “Epic of Gilgamesh”?

500

According to Herodotus, it was across the river from the royal palace.

What is the temple of Bel?

500

He built the Holy Temple on Mount Moriah.

Who is Solomon?

500

The belief in more than one god.

What is polytheism?

500

Paul was greatly distressed to see that the Athens was full of these.

What are idols?

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