Vocabulary
Evolution
How does a Dictator come to power
Through power and force
The first people created
The land where the Tower of Babel was built
Shinar/Sumer
The southern part of Sumer
Chaldea
Human development of new knowledge and greater skills through history
Progress
Republic
President
Discovered evidence of the great flood
Sir Leonard Wolley
Way of life
Culture
The name given to Asia and Europe because they are connected by land
Eurasia
The belief that is based on fear and ignorance rather than on truth
Superstition
Who rules a tribe?
Chief
Father of the Jewish nation
Citizen of Ur
Abraham
What two Great Rivers surround Mesopotamia?
Tigris and Euphrates
The continent where Mesopotamia is located
Asia
What is a country or a people who have developed to a great extent the natural ability that god has given to man
Civilization
Who rules a constitutional monarchy?
King and Queen
Sumerian King who ordered the ziggurat built
Ur-Nammu
What does A.D. mean?
anno domini which is Latin for "in the year of our Lord"
The imaginary line that runs halfway between the north and south pole
Equator
Define humanism
man's attempt to put himself in the place of or above God
Who rules an absolute monarchy?
Shah, czar, king, sultan
I was the Queen of Ur, and the discovery of my tomb led archeologists to know more about Sumerian culture
Lady Shubad
What is a narrow strip of land that connects two larger bodies of land called?
Isthmus
A narrow of land that once connected North and South America
Isthmus of Panama