Sumer
What do we call the tall temples the Sumerians built for worshipping their gods?
What is a ziggurat?
Name the structure built in an attempt to keep man from being scattered after the Flood.
What is the Tower of Babel?
What do we call the leader of a republic?
What is a president?
The Sumerians' form of wedge-shaped writing.
What is cuneiform?
This word means "between the rivers."
What is Mesopotamia?
What was NOT the main occupation of the Sumerians?
What is sailing?
Define what A.D. means in Latin.
What is "Anno Domini" or "in the year of our Lord?"
Name the type of government found in the United States.
What is a republic?
Name two major inventions of the Sumerians.
What is the wheel and writing?
This word means to supply land with water.
What is irrigation?
Name the most important Sumerian city.
What is Ur?
A belief based on fear and ignorance rather than the truth.
What is superstition?
What is another name for the Eastern Hemisphere?
What is the Old World?
Famous citizen of Ur mentioned in the Bible.
Who is Abraham?
These people dig up and study the remains of ancient cities.
Who are archaeologists?
Who was the powerful ruler of Ur who built its ziggurat?
Who is Ur-Nammu?
Man's attempt to put himself in the place of God.
What is humanism?
The Hemisphere in which 6/7 of the world's people live.
What is the Eastern Hemisphere?
This tomb revealed much about the Sumerians' beliefs.
What is the tomb of Lady Shubad?
This word defines the tall temples the Sumerians built for worshipping their gods.
What is a ziggurat?
Name the Sumerian moon god.
What is Nanna?
Our only completely accurate record of ancient history.
What is the Bible?
What is the imaginary line that runs halfway between the North and South Pole?
What is the Equator?
Name the southern part of Sumer.
What is Chaldea?
The written record of mankind.
What is history?