Sumerians
Phoenicians
Persians
Israelites
Misc.
100
The wedge shaped writing system of the Sumerians
What is Cuneiform?
100
The Phoenicians were the first to do this
What is build sea faring ships?
100
The system that the Persians created to encourage trade in their large empire
What is a system of roads?
100
The place where the Israelites first lived
What is Canaan?
100
The land between the Tigris and Euphrates
What is Mesopotamia?
200
The location of the Sumerian civilization
What is Mesopotamia?
200
The sea that Phoenicia bordered
What is the Mediterranean sea?
200
The battle at which the Persians defeated 300 Spartans and a few hundred other Greeks
What is Thermopylae?
200
The place to which the Israelites fled from famine and drought
What is Egypt?
200
King Nebuchadnezzar built these for his wife
What are the hanging gardens?
300
The hero of the world's oldest story
Who is Gilgamesh?
300
The modern day country that was ancient Phoenicia
What is Syria?
300
The capital of the Persian empire
What is Persepolis?
300
The reason why the Israelites fled the Pharaoh's rule
What is he had enslaved the Israelites?
300
The present day country that today exists where ancient Mesopotamia once flourished
What is Iraq?
400
The name of a city-state in the Sumerian empire
What is Ur, Uruk or Eridu?
400
The people that the Phoenicians supplied ships to when they sailed against the Greeks
Who are the Persians?
400
The king that led the Persians into their defeat in Greece
Who is Xerxes?
400
The leader of the Israelites as they fled Pharaoh Ramses II
Who is Moses?
400
The book that describes the early Israelites
What is the Torah?
500
The view of the afterlife in Sumerian religious belief
What is a miserable, terrifying existence
500
The major economic activity of the Phoenicians
What is sea faring trade?
500
The term for the fleeing of the Israelites across the red sea back to the Arabian Peninsula
What is the Exodus?
500
The proof that trade occurred between ancient Mesopotamians and Harrappans
What are Harrappan seals in Mesopotamia?
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