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The longest river in the world
The Nile River
How were the Egyptian kings called?
Pharaohs
What was the name of one female pharaoh?
Hatshepsut
The pharaoh that loved large structure about himself was ...
Ramses II
It was the process in which the body was embalmed, wrapped in linen, and placed inside a coffin. The entire process could take as long as 70 days.
Mummification
King Tut or Tutankhamen
Name of the place where God and Israel made a covenant (solemn agreement)
Mount Sinai
The first ten of God´s laws were known as...?
The Ten Commandments or the Decalogue
After Moses, God chose a leader to introduce the Israelites into Canaan. What was the name of this man?
Joshua
What was the name of the king of Israel who wrote many Psalms?
King David
What was the name of the king of Israel who wrote the book of Proverbs?
King Solomon
What was the most important thing the Phoenicians carried with them in one of their trade? They gave it to the Greeks for free.
An Alphabet
What was the name of the sea-shelled animals that the phoenicians used to make dye?
Murex
What type of trees the Phoenicians used to make beautiful furniture? King Solomon used the wood from these trees in the Temple of God in Jerusalem.
The Cedar trees
What was the capital of the Assyrian Empire?
Nineveh
This plant was used by the Egyptians for making boats, baskets, boxes, mats, sandals, furniture, as well as paper
The Papyrus
What was the name of the The Assyrian king that deported the ten tribes of the Northern Kingdom of Israel? Scattered around the empire, they never returned to their homeland.
Shalmaneser V
What was the name of the last great Assyrian king that collected a library of about 100,000 cuneiform clay tablets?
Ashurbanipal
What was the name of the chief advisor of Nebuchadnezzar? God gave him the wisdom to interpret dreams and visions.
Daniel
What was the name of the first Persian leader?
Cyrus the Great
What was the name of the Persian king that standardized weights, measures, and units of money.
Built neew roads that aided trade by improving transportation.
He built The great “highway” of the Persian Empire - It was the “Royal Road,” which stretched over 1600 miles from Susa, the Persian capital, to Sardis, a city in Asia Minor.
Darius
The people who built the earliest civilization in the vicinity of Greece.
The Minoans
The blind poet who greatly influenced Greek culture and portrayed the gods as glorified human beings. He wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Homer
The philosopher who wrote thirty or more works called dialogues
Plato
The war between Sparta and Athens, even Persia became involved
The Peloponnesian War