Vocabulary
Fertile Crescent
Mesopotamia
Babylonians and Assyrians
Hebrews, Phoenicians and Lydians
100
The worship of one god.
What is monotheism?
100
This is known as the land between two rivers.
What is Mesopotamia?
100
These are believed to have linked the heavens and the eart.
What are ziggurats?
100
This was the king who wrote a code of Law by which we live by.
Who is Hammurabi?
100
The purpose of the Ten Commandments.
What is to provide guidance about worship?
200
Rich, good for growing.
What is fertile?
200
These are the two rivers that border Mesopotmia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
200
Conquered all city-states in Mesopotamia, forming the first empire.
Who is Sargon?
200
The Code of Hammurabi was meant to protect these people.
Who are the weak and the poor?
200
The first monotheistic religion.
What is Judaism?
300
A large territory of many places all under one ruler.
What is an empire?
300
The main reason why farming was difficult for Mesopotamians.
What is low rainfall?
300
Sumerians invented this technology to help keep track of business dealings.
What is a writing system?
300
This group of people placed a higher value on war and conquest.
Who are the Assyrians?
300
The group of people who invented the first coins.
Who are the Lydians?
400
Its own individual unit, complete with its own form of government and traditions.
What is a city-state?
400
This is what happened when there was a surplus of food and not everyone needed to farm anymore.
What is people began to specialize in other jobs?
400
The term that describes that the right to rule was god-given.
What is divine kingship?
400
This king focused on making Babylonia great and beautiful again and is responsible for building the Hanging Gardens.
Who is Nebuchadnezzar II?
400
The Phoenicians helped develop this.
What is the modern alphabet?
500
Group of people in a complex, organized society
What is a civilization
500
These are 2 modern day countries in the Fertile Crescent region.
What are Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Iraq or Jordan?
500
The Sumerians used these three things to help advance their civilization daily.
What are writing, technology and religion?
500
Hammurabi used tax money for these things.
What are construction projects and his large army?
500
The first 5 books of the Hebrew Bible.
What is the Torah?
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