The "Fertile Crescent" of Mesopotamia was formed by which two rivers?
What is the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
100
The people who moved from place to place gathering food and hunting animals were known as this.
What is "nomadic"?
100
These invaders to Mesopotamia were known as great warriors, invented the battering ram, and built huge libraries where battles were detailed on large, clay tablets.
Who were the Assyrians?
100
What is the term indicating a religion has more than one god?
What is "polytheism"?
100
The Islamic holy book.
What is the 'Qu'ran'?
200
Starting at Lake Victoria and flowing into the Mediterranean Sea this river floods it's banks every year.
What is the Nile River?
200
The early set of laws developed by a Babylonian ruler that used the idea of "an eye for an eye" is called the:
What is "the Code of Hammurabi"?
200
The Phoenicians were known for development of this which made reading and writing accessible to all.
What is the 22 letter alphabet?
200
What is the name given to the Sumerian temples which were located in the center of their ancient cities?
What is "ziggurat"?
200
A system of watering crops.
What is 'irrigation'?
300
The Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea are connected by this man-made link.
What is the Suez Canal?
300
When early people began to domesticate animals and grow their own food it changed everything! They no longer needed to follow the herd around looking for food. Instead, they could __________ ______.
What is settling down in one location.
300
Belief in one God.
What is monotheistic?
300
The math function used to find the distance in time between two dates in the same time era.
What is subtraction?
400
North Africa and the Middle East is the region south and east of the Mediterranean Sea and north and west of the __________________ Sea.
What is the Arabian Sea?
400
An early invention of the ancient Sumerians that made life much easier to transport things and get around.
What is 'the wheel'?
400
On a timeline (from longest ago to today) which date would come first?
a)200 BCE b)100 CE c) 1 d) 1989
What is a) 200 BCE.
400
A holy city for Jews, Christians and Muslims.
What is Jerusalem?
400
What is the math function used to calulate the distance between two time periods in different eras?
What is 'addition'?
500
Flat land, water sources, mild climate and Fertile soil.
What are all the geographical features necessary for the start of a civilization?
500
An organized grouping of people that have settled together and have characteristics like ("GRAPES") government, religion, achievements, politics, economy, and social classes).
What is a civilization?
500
A process of boiling seawater and separating the salt from the water so that seawater can be used for drinking and watering crops.