Mesopotamia
Where is the fertile crescent?
What are Sailboats, Writing, the chariot, the pottery wheel, etc.
A system of canals that brought drinking water to Nineveh from 30 miles away.
What is the aqueduct?
What were the earliest set of laws called?
The Code of Hammurabi
Abraham and Moses were considered this:
Someone who can talk with God.
What is a prophet?
What are the names of the two rivers Mesopotamia is between
Tigris and Euphrates
Name of the people who were educated and had to write down all the laws, legends and songs?
Who are Scribes?
Who was the emperor of the Akkadian Empire?
Who is Sargon?
What is one of Hammurabi's codes?
What is:
An eye for an Eye
Tooth For a Tooth?
Describe the path of Abraham and the Israelites Travels in order.
Abraham traveled to Canaan, then they left for Egypt, Moses brought them to Mt. Sinai
What are the five empires we specifically looked at?
Sumer, Akkadian, Babylonia, Assyrian, Israel
These are cities that also govern the local villages as well.
What are City-States?
What is Mesopotamian writing called?
Cuneiform
What types of people would be found in the highest level of a Babylonian society?
Kings or people with lots of money.
Name 3 of the Ten Commandments
What are no other god before me, no idols, do not take the lords name in vain, Remember the Sabbath, honor your parents, no murder, no adultery, no false witness, do not covet
Mesopotamia is Greek for:
What is "Two Rivers"
Because of all the wars and tribal attackers, Sumerians built these around the city.
What are Giant Mud Walls?
Enheduana, Sargon's daughter, was conisdered the worlds first this...
What is a poet?
Because they had so many slaves, Assyrian men were usually this profession?
What are soldiers?
Judaism only worships one God. What is this practice?
What is Monotheism
Farmers struggled to get water to their plants because they had frequent bouts of this type of weather pattern,
What are droughts?
This means they believe in multiple gods.
What is Polytheism?
The largest building in most Sumerian cities was a huge mud brick temple called?
What is a ziggurat?
True or False: Assyrian People still respected Babylonian Cultures?
True
What is Diaspora?