The Fertile Cresent
Mesopotamia
Babylonia and Assyria
Hebrews, Phoenicians and Lydians
Vocabulary
100
The two rivers surrounding Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
100
Technology developed by the people of Mesopotamia.
What is writing?
100
This describes the Babylon under the rule of Nebuchadnezzar II.
What is great and glorious?
100
The Kingdom King David formed by uniting the Hebrew tribes.
What is Israel?
100
Formed by establishing rules and traditions in an organized community.
What is a society?
200
Area where one of the first civilizations settled.
What is the area between two rivers (Mesopotamia)?
200
These are parts of the Sumerian Civilzation.
What are ziggurats, mud-brick houses, walls surrounding their city-states......?
200
This is what Abraham agreed to practice when he made the covenant with God.
What is monotheism?
200
This is the contribution of the Lydians that still exists today.
What are coins?
200
An agreement.
What is a covenant?
300
This best describes the first Mesopotamians.
What are farmers?
300
This is how the Sumerians advanced their civilizations?
What is by developing writing, religion and technology?
300
This person ruled the kingdom of Babylonia and created a code of laws by which to live.
Who is Hammurabi?
300
The purpose of building Solomon's Temple.
What is to house the Torah?
300
A person who is born later to the same family.
What is a descendant?
400
Main reason people settled in Mesopotamia.
What is plenty of fresh water?
400
This was the advantage of cuniform over picture writing.
What is it was simpler?
400
This is the overall purpose of the Code of Hammurabi.
What is to protect the people?
400
The effect the Phoenicians' trading had on the world.
What is the spread of goods and ideas?
400
A city that is an individual unit, complete with its own form of government and traditions.
What is a city-state?
500
This is how Mesopotamians made faming successful.
What is by irrigating their crops?
500
This is why the Mesopotamian ziggurats wer so tall.
What is to link the heavens and Earth?
500
The difference between Assyrian and Babylonian cultures.
What is the Assyrians placed a higher value on war and conquest?
500
The capital of David's Kingdom.
What is Jerusalem?
500
A craftsperson, such as a potter or a weaver.
What is an artisan?
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