Mesopotamia
Firsts
Ancient Egypt
Monotheism
Codes & Stones
100
developed the first number system
What is Sumer?
100
Water, Trade, and transportation are the reasons for....
What is the reason civilizations developed near rivers?
100
did tax collection and managed the irrigation system
What is a vizier?
100
the Hebrew sacred text (or bible)
What is Torah?
100
Murder, Assault, Rape
What is criminal law?
200
first empire
What is Akkad, led by Sargon?
200
developed the first alphabet
Who is the Phoenicians?
200
new war technology brought by the Hyksos
What is war chariot?
200
country where monotheism started
What is Israel
200
Marriages, Divorce, taxes, inheritance
What is civil law?
300
meaning of Mesopotamia
What is fertile crescent?
300
set laws down in writing (answer is a verb)
What is codify
300
river in Egypt
What is the Nile River
300
God gave the Ten Commandments to him
Who is Moses?
300
significance of Hammurabi's Code
What is the first time laws were set down in writing?
400
made weapons and tools harder and sharper
What is iron?
400
first monotheistic religion
What is Judaism
400
advancements in science (three)
What is astronomy, medicine, mathematics, diagnosing diseases?
400
language of Jewish people
What is Hebrew
400
ancient tablet that was the key to deciphering hieroglyphyics
What is Rosetta Stone?
500
Darius improved Persian life by this
What is a money economy?
500
first writing, wedge shaped
What is cuneiform
500
Egypt is wholly the gift of the Nile
What is Egypt is just a desert without the Nile.
500
difference between Israelites and other around them
What is believed in one all powerful God
500
the man who deciphered hieroglyphics
What is Jean Champollion?
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