Geography
A region in southwestern Asia that includes ,the region of Mesopotamia
What is Fertile Crescent?
A large building with a temple on it's peak.
What is ziggurat?
This is one of the world's oldest codes of law.
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
Believing in one God.
What is monotheism?
Believing in many gods.
What is polytheism?
Like the Nile River, ________ and the _________ ________ flooded each year. These floods brought water and silt to Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers?
What is cuneiform?
An ancient Mesopotamian empire that extended throughout the Fertile Crescent.
What is Babylonia?
A Saturday used for rest, prayer, and study.
What is the Sabbath?
The Hebrew Bible is Jewish's peoples record of their history and their religion.
Which is Judaism?
Farmers started building __________ to help control the dangerous flooding, making their land productive.
What are canal systems?
A self-governing city that also governs surrounding villages.
What is city-states?
The rise of power of ____________________ made Babylon one of the world's rich and most powerful cities in ancient times.
Who is Hammurabi?
The laws that God gave to Moses at Mount Sinai.
What are the Ten Commandments?
He was king of the world's first empire and city-state named Kish.
Who is Sargon?
____________________ is the region divided by two rivers into rugged plateau to the north and fertile plains to south.
What is Mesopotamia?
A early Sumerian mythical hero named __________ for being part god and part man.
Who is Gilgamesh?
The code of laws were writing by this king.
Who is King Hammurabi?
Made a covenant with God for promised land and protection for his descendants in exchange of following God's path
Who are Abraham and his wife Sarah?
Scattering of the Jews to many parts of the world.
What is Diaspora?
Mesopotamians invented this __________________ and it still plays a big role in transportation today
What is the wheel?
The earliest civilizations of ancient city-states in southern Mesopotamia.
What is Sumer?
A ____________ makes something else happen. The result of a ____________ is an __________.
What are cause, cause, and the effect?
He said "Let my people go"!
Who is Moses?
These five books are the first books of the Bible. In Hebrew this word means "to teach".
What is the Torah?