Geography
Mesopotamia means _________________.
What is "the land between two rivers?"
A type of religious temple found in Mesopotamia.
What is a ziggurat?
Dikes and Canals
The Phoenicians are remembered for their use of this color.
What is purple?
The belief in only one god
What is monotheism?
The names of the two rivers that were important to Mesopotamia.
What are the Euphrates and Tigris rivers?
Producing more food that is needed to survive is a _____________.
What is surplus?
The ruler of Mesopotamia who used "an eye for an eye" to write his laws and punishments.
Who is Hammurabi?
The Phoenicians were skilled in this, which helped them trade and spread their culture.
What is sailing/shipbuilding?
The first important leader to believe in only one god (father of the Israelites).
Who is Abram or Abraham?
The area fed by the Tigris and Euphrates rivers is known as the ___________.
What is Fertile Crescent?
Wedge-shapede letters on soft clay tablets.
What is cuneiform?
The historical person who parted the Red Sea and led the slaves out of Egypt.
Who is Moses?
The Lydians became the first civilization to use _______.
What is coined money?
Moses found these on Mt. Sinai.
What are the Ten Commandments?
The Tigris and Euphrates dropped ___________, a rich mixture of rocks and soil, on the land after they flooded.
What is silt?
A person in Sumeria whose job it was to write.
What is a scribe?
A new way of doing things
What is an innovation?
Most well known King of Israel.
King Soloman
What is Polytheism?
The capital city of Israel.
What is Jerusalem?
A type of government with a king or queen.
What is a monarchy?
In Mesopotamia, a city and all the farmland surrounding it.
What is a city-state?
This group of people ruled Mesopotamia fiercely after the fall of Hammurabi. They were the inventors of the war chariot and road systems.
Who are the Assyrians?
The five books of the Jewish bible.
What is the Torah?