Fertile Crescent
The Greeks gave the Fertile Crescent this name.
What is Mesopotamia?
Noah's 3 sons.
Who are Ham, Shem, and Japeth?
Season of the Nile where architects would build irrigation canals?
What is the Drought season?
This Pharaoh united the Egyptian kingdoms.
Who is Menes?
Describe Lower Egypt
North Egypt; lush Fertile land with the Nile flowing into the Med Sea. Lower elevation. Best place for farming.
Mesopotamia means "land between the ______".
What are Rivers?
Noah's son that the Hebrew's came from.
Who is Shem?
Season of the Nile when the crops would be planted.
What is the Emergence season?
This Babylonian King is famous for justice and his 282 codes.
Who is King Hammurabi?
4 Advances of Mesopotamia...
Running water, wheel, calendars, clocks/time, pottery, art, plumbing, math, etc
The Sumerian city where Abraham was born.
What is Ur?
The son Noah cursed and his descendants are the Canaanites.
Who is Ham?
Season of the Nile when water would get trapped behind levees and dikes.
What is the Inundation season?
8' stele contaning 282 Babylonian rules for justice.
Code of Hammurabi
1. Confused languages
2. Scattered the people
Sumerian structure used to worship idols. A famous one is the Tower of Babel.
What is a Ziggurat?
Abraham's son from Hagar.
Who is Ishmael?
What is Egypt?
Stele with the trilingual proclamation that helped translate the Egyptian language and culture.
What is The Rosetta Stone?
Significance of the Rosetta Stone.
The Greek language on the stone was used to decipher Heiroglyphs on the stone...giving the ability to translate the Egyptian language and learn their culture.
This written language of the Sumerians on tablets.
What is Cuneiform?
Abraham's son of promise.
Who is Isaac?
Reasons why the Nile was Egypt's lifeblood?
What is food, water, and trasnportaion?
He discovered the royal tombs in Ur.
Who is Sir C. Leonard Woolley?
Reasons for Egypts stability.
Nile - source of water for drinking and crops
Rich soil - produced abundant crops
Good government - united
The Nile provided transportation / communication
Protected geographically...Med and Red sea plus 2 deserts surrounded it. Great location.
People didn't have to move and could thrive