Stone and Time
This person digs artifacts out of the ground and studies them.
What is an archaeologist?
What is a nomad?
The Lord stopped mankind from building this by confusing their languages and scattering them.
What is the Tower of Babel?
An ancient form of writing used by the Sumerians
What is cuneiform?
This Sumerian city was excavated by Sir C. Leonard Woolley and is the same city Abram and his father Terah departed from in Genesis.
What is Ur?
The structure build by ancient people that marked the summer and winter solstice.
What is Stonehenge?
This area of land was a desirable place to live because of its water, good soil and abundance of grass and plants.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
Most buildings in Mesopotamia were built of these.
What are mud bricks?
The epic Sumerian poem, written on clay tablets, was about this mythical king who terrorized his people at the start of the story.
Who is Gilgamesh?
Abraham was the father of Isaac, and Isaac was the father of _____________.
Who is Jacob?
Stonehenge can be found in this present-day country
What is England?
This piece of ancient farming equipment was used to draw water from canals and rivers to water crops.
What is a shaduf?
This man who set himself as dictator over the cities of Mesopotamia, calling his empire the Akkadian Empire.
Who is Sargon?
This half-man half animal, sent by the gods to fight Gilgamesh, ended up becoming his friend.
Who is Enkidu?
Abraham was promised by God that his offspring would be as numerous as these.
What are the stars?
The equator runs east to west around the center of the globe. These two lines of latitude lie above and below the equator.
Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn
The word "Mesopotamia" means this.
What is between the rivers?
These buildings were often built as temples by the Mesopotamians, and resembled pyramids made of stair steps.
What is a Ziggurat?
Enkidu and Gilgamesh killed this creature, angering the God's and ultimately leading to Enkidu's death.
What is the bull of the gods.
What is Israel./
The two times each year (about March 21 and September 23) when the sun crosses the equator and day and night are everywhere on earth of approximately equal length
What is an equinox?
The land of Mesopotamia lay between these two rivers.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
This tar-like substance was used for mortar in the the construction of the tower of Babel.
What is bitumen?
In the Epic of Gilgamesh, Utnapishtim tells Gilgamesh that he can live forever if he finds and eats this.
A magic plant from the bottom of the sea.
The descendants of Jacob's sons eventually became these.
What are the twelve tribes of Israel?