INDIA
Who is Sir John Hubert Marshall?
The archaeologist who discovered Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro.
A Jewish religious teacher
Rabbi
What is a stone coffin?
sarcophagus
What term is used to describe an ancient Mesopotamian city and the surrounding land and villages that it controlled?
city-state
What is Christ's work of rescuing a person and freeing them from sin called?
redemption
What is a monsoon?
A wind that reverses direction with the change of the season.
The descendants of Israelites in the Northern Kingdom who intermarried with people from the conquered nations.
Samaritans
A name in hieroglyphs will be written inside this oval shape.
cartouche
What do we call a long poem that tells the story of a hero?
EPIC
How a person sees and interprets the universe and everything in it is called...
worldview
What are the social classes in India known as?
Castes
What is the scattering of the Israelites into many nations called?
Diaspora
The fertile land, shaped in a triangle, where the Mediterranean Sea and the Nile River meet.
A DELTA, or the Nile Delta.
a way of supplying water to land or crops
irrigation
A Biblical worldview of the beginning of history believes that people began with...
...the ability to speak and possibly write.
...intelligence.
...the ability to think and communicate.
et cetera
What religion do most people living in modern India claim to follow?
Hinduism
The Israelites wandered in the wilderness for 40 years because they...
...did not trust God to help them take the land from the Canaanites.
How could an Egyptian rise to a higher social class?
He could rise to a higher social class if he found favor with the pharaoh.
the worship of many gods
polytheism
This worldview believes that agriculture and civilization began in the first generation of people.
Biblical
Why is the Indian subcontinent known as such?
The Indian subcontinent is separated from the rest of the Asian continent by the Himalaya Mountains. They form a natural barrier.
People who are not Jewish are called...
Gentiles.
When an ancient Egyptian was mummified, what were their dried organs placed in?
Canopic Jars
What did the Sumerians build to help control floods?
LEVEES
True or False: Sometimes, historians do not agree on how to interpret information because their worldviews differ.
TRUE