Fertile Crescent
An area made up of a city and surrounding land and villages that it controls.
What is a city-state?
How was a Sumerian city-state organized?
What is they governed itself and the surrounding area and provided protection from enemies.
I am the king of Uruk. Being part god and part human, someday I have to die. Who am I
What is Gilgamesh
What is considered the most difficult part of training to be a Mesopotamia scribe?
What is memorizing Sumerian signs
Conquered Sumer and northern Mesopotamia to form a new Babylonian Empire.
Who is Hammurabi?
Who were the greatest sailors of the ancient world?
Who is Phoenicians.
Conquered land from Mesopotamia to Egypt
What is David
What is after Solomon death, 10 tribes formed the kingdom of Israel in the North, while the other tribe formed the kingdom of Judah in the South
What do the Christians and Jews have in common?
What is the Ten Commandments.
I am a curving stretch of land between the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Fertile Crescent.
Which Chaldean king built the hanging gardens of Babylon?
Who is Nebuchadnezzar.
Washington D.C., is to the United States as Jerusalem was to?
What is the Kingdom of Judah
What is the name for the Hebrews' departure from Egypt?
What is the Exodus
Who were considered the top groups in a city-state?
Who are kings and priests?
Why was Hammurabi's law significant?
What is he made them into a code or organized list
What is something that was not invented by Mesopotamians?
What is the pyramid
The two main rivers that flow through Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
Why would a Sumerian farmer have asked a priest when to begin irrigating the fields?
What is priests kew how to read a calendar
I was the first leader to conquer all of Mesopotamia?
Who is Sargon
What begins with the Roman's exiling of the Jews?
What is the Diaspora
The story of Hebrew begins with who?
Who is Abraham