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The world's first civilization.
What is Sumer?
The empire that was considered easy to invade.
What is Assyria?
The king of Babylon from 1792 BC to 1750 BC.
Who was King Hammurabi?
The two main items that the Phoenicians traded.
What were purple cloth and Cedars of Lebanon?
The sacred text of the Jews.
What is the Torah?
The two rivers on the border of Mesopotamia, and considered to be the rivers of life and death.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers
The two groups that overthrew the Assyrian empire.
Who were the Medes and Chaldeans?
The code of laws that Hammurabi made.
What was Hammurabi's Code?
A way Phoenicians used to keep people away from their trade routs.
What was telling stories of sea monsters?
God gave these to Moses for the Israelites to follow.
What are the Ten Commandments?
A very powerful city-state in Sumer.
What is Ur?
The Babylonian king who rebuilt Babylon after defeating the Assyrians.
Who was King Nebuchadnezzar II?
The amount of laws that Hammurabi's Code contained.
What is the number 282?
Two powerful and rich Phoenician cities.
What were the cities of Tyre and Sidon?
The religion that allows many women rights.
What is Judaism?
A Sumerian temple.
What is a ziggurat?
The empire that overthrew the Babylonian Empire.
What was Persia?
A law from Hammurabi's Code.
What is "an eye for an eye"?
The alphabet that is a basis of ours today.
What was the Phoenician alphabet?
These people preached the word of God in the Old Testament (Noah, Abraham, Moses, etc.).
What were prophets?
The king of Akkad who conquered Sumer.
Who is King Sargon?
The king of the Persian Empire.
Who was King Cyrus the Great?
The language that developed over time.
What is cuneiform?
A small band of people that settled south of Phoenicia (we hear a lot about them in the Old Testament).
What were the Israelites?
This empire hated Jews and Christians alike.
What was the Roman Empire?