The Sumerians
Akkadians and Babylonians
Phoenicians and Hebrews
Wacky Vocab I
Wacky Vocab 2
100
The land between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers:
What is Mesopotamia?
100
This ruler united the city-states of Mesopotamia:
Who is Sargon I of Akkad?
100
Phoenicians built their city-states in:
What is Canaan?
100
This is a city surrounded by villages on the surrounding land:
What is a city-state?
100
This is a time when no crops grow and there is no food:
What is a famine?
200
The Sumerians built their houses out of this:
What is clay bricks?
200
Sargon I did this for the Akkadians:
What is repaired dikes, made irrigation systems longer and had his army protect trade routes?
200
The Phoenicians used this to navigate:
What is the North Star?
200
This is a sharp, pointed writing tool:
What is a stylus?
200
This is a rule or way to act:
What is a commandment?
300
The Sumerians built their most important buildings, or temples, in this shape:
What is a ziggurat?
300
This ruler was the king of Babylon:
Who is Hammurabi?
300
The the Phoenicians developed this:
What is a simple alphabet of 22 letters?
300
This is a bank of earth that keeps out water:
What is a dike?
300
This is a person who buys, sells, or trades:
What is a merchant?
400
This is Sumerians’ most important invention:
What is cuneiform writing?
400
Hammurabi is most remembered for this:
What is his system of laws (Hammurabi's Code)?
400
He was the first leader of the Hebrews:
Who is Abraham?
400
This is what a religious leader is called:
What is a priest?
400
This is what we call the area of land in the Middle East that is shaped like a quarter moon:
What is the Fertile Crescent?
500
The Sumerians did this daily to keep their gods happy:
What is sacrifice animals?
500
Sargon I borrowed this from the Sumerians:
What is their system of writing?
500
This man led the Hebrews out of slavery when they were in Egypt:
Who is Moses?
500
This means to honor and praise a god:
What is worship?
500
This is the Hebrew and Christian book that is thought to be holy:
What is the Bible/the Torah?
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