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100

The Persian prince who built an empire between 550 and 539 BC.

Who is Cyrus?

100

What is a great religious thinker and teacher called?

What is a prophet?

100

The ______ and ________ rivers form the Fertile Crescent.

What are Tigris and Euphrates?
100

The Sumerians created cuneiform writing.

What is true?

200
Persian Empire was defeated in 330BC by....

Who is Alexander the Great?

200

What is the "land between the rivers" called?

What is Mesopotamia?


200

The Sumerians built a large ________ system in order to water their crops.

What is irrigation? 

200

The Chaldeans built the world's largest cuneiform library.

What is false?


The Assyrians did. 

Chaldeans rebuilt Babylon.

300

Nomadic herders in the grasslands of the Black and Caspian seas.

Who are the Hittites?

300

The Sumerian temples are called what?

What is ziggurats?
300

An Amorite king called _________ provided the first known code of laws.

Who is Hammurabi? 

300
Phoenicians developed an alphabet
What is true?
400

The ancient ______ established the kingdoms in Israel and Judah.

Who are the Hebrews?
400
The worship of one God is called what?

What is monotheism? 

400

Nebuchadnezzar ruled the ________ Empire?

What is the Babylonian/Chaldean?

400
Sumerians developed a highway system.

What is false?

Persians. 

500
The _______ were the greatest sea traders in the ancient Middle East.

Who are the Phoenicians? 

500

What is the organization and writing down of laws?

What is codification?

500

___________ is the religion stressing a future life after physical death. 

What is Zoroastrianism?

500

Mesopotamia was the capital of the Assyrian Empire.

What is false?

Nineveh

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