Name It
Person, Place or Thing
Anything Goes
People
Terms
100
the chief god of Babylon who became the king of all the gods
Who is Marduk?
100
rule by one city or people over other cities or people
What is an empire?
100
the Akkadian king who conquered the Sumerians
Who is Sargon?
100
Ham's son who settled in Egypt
Who is Mizraim?
100
a payment from one nation to another
What is tribute?
200
a nation or people living its own land with its own government
What is a nation-state?
200
making the laws known
What is promulgation?
200
the descendants of those who stayed in the general vicinity of the Tower of Babel after the dispersion, and who great accomplishment was writing
What are the Sumerians?
200
the Greek historian who wrote descriptions of the wonders of ancient Egypt
Who is Herodotus?
200
rapids
What are cataracts?
300
the chief god of the Canaanites
What is Baal?
300
the king of Babylon who united all of Mesopotamia under his rule
Who is Hammurabi?
300
Armageddon
What is Megiddo?
300
the scholar who deciphered the Rosetta Stone and unlocked the secrets of hieroglyphics
Who is Jean Francis Champollion?
300
the stone used by Champollion to decipher hieroglyphics
What is the Rosetta Stone?
400
This is the land between and immediately around the Tigris and Euphrates - means land between rivers
What is Mesopotamia?
400
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob
What are the Patriarchs?
400
that makes fruitful
What is the Euphrates River?
400
the pharoah who united the two kingdoms of Egypt
Who is Menes?
400
the division of ancient Egypt's history
What is Old, Middle, New Kingdoms?
500
the city where God called Abraham to leave
What is Ur?
500
the father of the nation of Israel
Who is Abraham?
500
means "arrow"
What is the Tigris River?
500
the pharaoh when the Egyptian empire reached its greatest extent
Who is Thutmose III?
500
the Egyptian process of preserving dead bodies
What is mummification?
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