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The pharaoh who united the two kingdoms of Egypt
Menes
The pharaoh who had many giant statues of himself
Ramses II
The pharaoh when the Egyptian empire reached its greatest extent
Thutmose III
Name given to the huge tombs built for some pharaohs
Pyramids
Name given to the Egyptian writing
The Hieroglyphics
Name given to the mysterious statues with the head of a man, ram, or hawk, and the body of a lion.
Sphinxes
The study of the relics and ruins of ancient cultures
Archaeology
The longest river in the world
The Nile River
A plant used by the Egyptians to make boats, baskets, boxes, mats, sandals, furniture, and paper
The Papyrus
Man used by God to introduced Israel into the Promised land, Canaan
Joshua
The king who wrote many Psalms
King David
The King who wrote the book of Proverbs
King Solomon
Name of the first king of Israel
Saul
A kind of snail used to make dye
The murex
The most important thing that the Phoenicians carried with them on their trading ventures.
The Alphabet
For how long did king Saul, David, and Solomon rule?
For 40 years
The place whre God made a convenant with Israel and gave Moses the Ten Commandments.
Mount Sinai
The heavily fortified city that fell at the sound of trumpets and shouts
Jericho
What is the word given to a solemn agreement?
Covenant
Another word for the Ten Commandments?
The Decalogue
The leaders of Israel during its first 300 years in Canaan.
Judges
The Assyrian king who deported the ten tribes of the Northern kingdom
Shalmaneser V (fifth)
The last great Assyrian king, who collected a library of about 100, 000 cuneiform tablets.
Ashurbanipal
The city built by Nimrod that became the Assyrian capital
Nineveh
The Israelite captive who interpreted Nebuchadnezzar´s dream as well as the writing on the wall.
Daniel