Sumerians
Name the three oldest Sumerian settlements.
What are Eridu, Uruk, and Ur?
What famous gardens were built by King Nebuchadnezzar?
Answer: What are the Hanging Gardens?
Name the Assyrian capital.
Answer: What is Nineveh?
Which Persian ruler conquered Babylon in 539 B.C., allowed the Jews to return to Jerusalem, and is called “God’s shepherd” and “anoited” in the Bible?
Answer: Who is Cyrus?
What does Mesopotamia mean?
Answer: What is “land between the rivers”?
What system of writing did the Sumerians invent?
What is cuneiform?
What two rivers cradled the first civilizations?
Answer: What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
Who built the world’s first great library at Nineveh?
Answer: Who is Ashurbanipal?
Which Jewish queen risked her life to save her people from destruction during the reign of King Xerxes?
Answer: Who is Esther?
True or False: The birth of Christ marked the beginning of the medieval age.
False
What were the large temple-towers built by the Sumerians called?
What are ziggurats?
Which mathematical principle allowed them to assign value to a number based on position?
Answer: What is place-value notation?
What technological advancement allowed the Hittites to dominate Asia Minor and Syria?
Answer: What are iron weapons?
Which Persian ruler conquered Babylon in 539 B.C. and allowed the Jews to return to Jerusalem?
Answer: Who is Cyrus?
What distinguishes humans as special to God, according to the Bible?
Answer: May vary.
What was the Sumerian school for training scribes called?
What is edduba?
Which Babylonian king is famous for the code of laws?
Answer: Who is Hammurabi?
Who made an unsuccessful attempt to conquer Judah?
Who was Sennacherib
Which Persian king is famous for launching massive military campaigns against Greece, including the battles of Thermopylae and Salamis?
Answer: Who is Xerxes?
Name three important characteristics of the Sumerian religion.
What are polytheism, ziggurats as temples, and worship of many gods? or may vary
Which industry was most important for Sumerian commercial activity?
What is textile?
Name the chief god of Babylon.
Who is Marduk?
Which Assyrian king, along with Shalmaneser V, destroyed the Northern Kingdom of Israel in 721 B.C.?
Answer: Who is Sargon II?
Which Persian king established the world’s first organized postal system and improved communication across his vast empire?
Answer: Who is Darius?
Why does Sumerian history properly begin with the invention of cuneiform?
Answer: What is because it allowed the recording of history, laws, and commerce? or may vary