The Beginning
The first book of the Bible.
What is Genesis
God selected to become the father of Israel.
Who is Abraham?
The greatest gift of the Nile to Egypt.
What is fertile soil?
Way of life of a group of people.
What is culture?
God and Israel made this at Mt. Sinai.
What is the covenant?
The name given to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
What are Patriarchs?
The valley in Israel the Bible points to as the last battle ground in world history.
What is Armageddon (or Megiddo)?
Killed his brother in a fit of jealousy and hatred.
What is (or who is) Cain?
One of the most important cities in the land of Sumer.
What is Ur?
The natural barriers that helped to prevent invasions of Egypt.
What is desert sands and rapids(cataracts)?
The law God established to teach man the sanctity of human life.
What is capital punishment.
A kind of sea snail used to make dye.
What is murex?
The Sumerian goddess of love.
Who is Inanna or(Ishtar)?
Rules people follow in living together.
What is laws?
The way God decided to destroy mankind.
What is a great flood?
This area had the ability to grow crops and its shape resembled a crescent.
What is the fertile crescent?
The area that the Egyptians made great advances.
What is medicine?
Large group of people who think of themselves as one and act in history as a unit.
What is a nation.
The most important thing the Phoenicians carried with them on trading ventures.
What is an alphabet?
The king of Babylon who conquered surroundings kingdoms and united all of Mesopotamia.
Who is Hammurabi?
Large stone statues with heads of men, rams or hawks.
What is sphinxes?
He became the supreme ruler of eight cities.
Who is Nimrod?
The 180,000 square mile area between the Tigris and the Euphrates.
What is Mesopotamia?
The bottom of the social scale.
What were farmers and slaves?
Scattering of people over the earth.
What is dispersion?
The Kingdom that conquered the Northern Kingdom of Israel.
What is the Assyrian Empire?
Saved from drowning and the adopted son of a king's daughter.
Who is Moses?
Process by which bodies were preserved.
What is mummification?
The event that resulted in the confusion of languages and the dispersion of people.
What is defying God's commandment to replenish the earth?
The Sumerians were the first people in history known to have used this.
What is the wheel?
What the ten plagues demonstrated about Egyptian religion.
What is the ridiculousness of the Egyptian religion?
Contained a message carved in three languages.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
The main tendency of civilization in world history.
What is to prepare the world for the birth of Christ?
Suffered defeat as God's power flowed through Moses' staff.
Who is Amalekites?
The peninsula of Western Asia between the Black Sea, the Mediterranean Sea, and the Euphrates River.
What is Asia Minor?