Places
The capital city of Iraq
What is Baghdad?
A tower we read about in Genesis being built to the heavens that is in modern day Iraq
What is Tower of Babel?
The river that flows out of Turkey through Iraq
What is the Tigris?
A place where Iraqi's may sleep during the hot summer.
What is the rooftop?
the name of the earliest writing system.
What is a cuneiform?
A city that is home to more Christians than any other place in Iraq
What is Mosul?
The palace from the book of Daniel we can find in Iraq
What is Nebuchadnezzar's palace?
The river that winds out of Turkey, through Syria, and across Iraq
What is the Euphrates?
A Southeasterly wind blowing from the gulf in early summer and early winter whipping up strong sandstorms.
What is a Sharqi?
definition of "tells"
What are mounds of rubble from long forgotten cities?
Archaeologists discovered remains of this city along the banks of the Euphrates
What is Babylon?
the biblical character that once lived in Ur that we read of in Genesis 15
Who is Abraham?
The 12 mile coastline lies on this body of water
What is the Persian Gulf?
the winds that blow through Iraq constantly in the summer and brings blistering heat and dry air from the North
What is a Shamal?
A pyramid like tower, sometimes reaching as high as 300 ft-usually used as a place to worship Idols
What is a Ziggurat?
An area in Iraq that claims it could have been where the garden of Eden is based on how lush it is there
What is the Marsh Arabs?
A group of people who were thought to have descended from the Medes
Who are the Kurds?
bodies of water in Southern Iraq that emerge from splintered rivers and are a type of wetland
What are wetlands?
Something that would be considered disrespectful to show as you sit in an Iraqi home
what are the soles of your feet?
definition of tributaries
What are smaller stream that meet larger streams?