What is the Sea that bordered Palestine, Egypt and Anatolia?
100
Canaan.
What is the land given to people by God?
100
They were known for being brutal; 1100-600 BCE.
Imperial Buerocracy was established there
They were credited with painting Frescoes
Had a violent and powerful empire
What is the importance of the Assyrian Empire?
100
He was a very wise leader of Persia.
Let Jews return to Jerusalem after the conquer of Babylon.
What did Cryus do?
100
The belief in more than one God;
Egypt and Mesopotamia had this faith
What is polytheism?
200
The Nile
What is the name of the longest river in the world?
200
The Exodus
What is the name of the journey Moses led out of Egypt?
200
Credited with creating the first empire
What is the Akkadian Empire's main accomplishment?
200
The great leader of Jerusalem who took over Palestine.
Led Israel to the height of its power.
970-930 BCE.
Created Jerusalem
Who is King Solomon?
200
The belief in one single God
What is monotheism?
300
Tigris and Euphrates river
What are the two rivers running through Sumer?
300
The laws of faith God gave to all followers of the Jewish belief.
What is the 10 Commandments?
300
They kept long and detailed astronomical records
In 626 Nebopolassar founded the Chaldean dynasty
Held Jews captives for years
What is the importance of the Neo-Babylonians/ Chaldeans?
300
The Pharaoh that destroyed all temples except for the sun god's.
Who was Akhenaton?
300
The Hebrew faith.
What is the faith Israel believed in?
400
Fertile Crescent
What is the name of the piece of land that stretches from the Med. Sea to the Persian Gulf?
400
Dispersa
What is the name for the scattering of Jews by the Assyrians?
400
They are mostly recognized for the creation of Hammurabi's code by Hammurabi.
What is the importance of the Old Babylonians?
400
She was the first woman pharoah of Egypt.
What is signifigant about Hatshepsut's ruling?
400
Anubis; said to have a jackel head.
What is the name of the "god of the dead" in Egypt?
500
The Dead Sea.
What is the name of the "salt sea"?
500
They let them return to Jerusalem and rebuild it after the Assyrians had destroyed it, and the Babylonains had them captured.
What did the Persians do for the Hebrews?
500
The Hittites
Which empire is Indo Europeans?
500
The prophet who recieved the Ten Commandments, led the Exodus out of Egypt for the Jewish slaves, and was spoken to directly by God.
Who is Moses?
500
Belief established by prophet Zoroaster in 660 BCE;
a monotheistic belief that believed in the power of good and evil.
Said that Ahuramazda was supreme and brought all things into life.