"B" Words
Geography
Sumer and Sumerians

Government
Vocabulary
100

The only accurate record of history.

What is the Bible?

100

6/7ths of the world's people live here.

What is the Eastern Hemisphere?

100

The most important Sumerian city.

What is Ur?

100

Type of government found in the United States.

What is a republic?

100

The false idea of how man began.

What is evolution?

200

The Tower of Babel probably gave this city it's name.

What is Babylon?

200

The imaginary line that runs halfway between the North Pole and the South Pole.

What is the equator?

200

The southern part of Sumer.

What is Chaldea?

200

Type of government whose ruler is often born into office and has complete power.

What is absolute monarchy?

200

The event that marks the beginning of history.

What is the creation of man?

300

"B.C." 

What is Before Christ?

300

The New World is in this hemisphere.

What is Western?

300

Two major inventions of the Sumerians.

What are writing and the wheel?

300

A ruler who comes to power by force.

What is a dictator?

300

The written record of mankind.

What is history?

400

After the Flood, this structure was built to try to keep man from being scattered.

What is Tower of Babel?

400

Two major rivers of the Fertile Crescent.

What are the Tigres and the Euphrates?

400

Tall temples the Sumerians built for worshipping their Gods. 

What are ziggurats?

400

Leader of a republic.

What is a president?

400

A large body of people who think of themselves as one, are united under one ruler, and are subject to the same general laws. 

What is a nation?

500

Definition of "Mesopotamia."

What is "between two rivers?"

500

Another name for the Eastern Hemisphere.

What is the Old World?

500

The Sumerians' form of wedge-shaped writing.

What is cuneiform?

500

A type of government whose ruler Is often born into office but does not have complete power.

What is a constitutional monarchy?

500

Our dating system is centered on this.

What is the birth of Christ?

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