Mesopotamia
What is the name of the Mesopotamian system of writing?
Cuneiform
What is the name of the river in Egypt?
What is the symbol of Judaism called?
What is the name of the leader of Christianity?
Jesus
How many gods do Muslim people believe in?
One
What was the name of the Mesopotamian king who wrote a system of laws using cuneiform?
King Hammurabi
What is the name for the Egyptian system of writing?
Heiroglyphics
Who started the religion of Judaism?
Abraham
What is the name of the holy book in Christianity?
The Bible
Who is the key person in Islam?
Muhammad
How did the Mesopotamians get water from the Tigris and Euphrates rivers to their crops?
Canals
Why did the Egyptians need the Nile river to flood each spring?
The floods brought rich soil to the Egyptians' farmland
How is Moses important to the Jewish people?
He rescued the Jewish people from slavery in Egypt by parting the red sea.
What are some important holidays in Christianity?
Christmas, Easter
What is the Islamic word for God?
Allah
What are the names of the two rivers that Mesopotamia existed between?
The Tigris and the Euphrates
How were Egyptian gods depicted?
as human bodies with animal heads
What are some important Jewish holidays? Name at least 2!
Passover, Hannukah, Yom Kippur, Rosh Hashanah
Why do Christians celebrate Easter?
To remember when Jesus died on the cross and rose from the dead.
Where did the religion of Islam begin?
Saudi Arabia?
What did the Mesopotamians build as temples to worship their Gods?
Ziggurats
Why did the Egyptians build pyramids AND what was inside?
They built pyramids as tombs (burial places) for pharaohs and inside was lots of treasure for the pharaoh to take with him to the afterlife.
What is the name for a Jewish place of worship?
Synagogue
What is the symbol for Christianity AND why?
The symbol of Christianity is the cross because Jesus died on a cross.
What are the five pillars of Islam?
1. Pray 5 times a day
2. Fasting during Ramadan
3. Helping the needy
4. Making a pilgrimage to Mecca
5. Shahada: declaring faith in God