Foundations
Define AD and BC
In the Year of our Lord/Anno Domini and Before Christ
A large group of people who think of themselves as one and act in history as a single entity
Nation
A way of life for a group of people
Culture
The site of the first postdiluvian civilization
Sumer
Who were the people noted for extensively using iron for the first time?
Hittites
Name the three divisions of history
ancient history, medieval history, and modern history
The builder of the world's first empire
Nimrod
Education
The Sumerians greatest contribution to civilization
Writing
Who established the worlds first postal service
Darius
An Institution that has authority and power to control, rule, and direct in the actions and affairs of others
Government
Whose name means "divided"
Peleg
Symbols of things that cannot be pictured and of actions and ideas
Ideograms
The oldest work of literature outside the Bible
Epic of Gilgamesh
Another name for the Ten Commandments
Decalogue
What is the first foundational civil ordinance?
Capital punishment
Another name for The Flood
Deluge
Who developed the world's most ancient Law Code?
Ur-Nammu
Name two types of sumerian religion
Naturalists, Polytheists, Humanists
The first true alphabet
Sinai Script
Where did Noah's family settle after they came off the ark?
The Plain of Shinar
The amount of years between the Fall and the Flood
approx. 1600 years
The three oldest Sumerian settlements
Eridu, Uruk, and Ur
Huge temple towers in Sumer
Ziggurats
Name the years each kingdom of Israel fell to invaders, and by who.
Northern Kingdom, 721, Assyria; Southern Kingdom, 586, Babylon.