This term is used to describe soil that is productive and rich in nutrients.
What is fertile?
100
This is the reason that the Fertile Crescent region got its name.
What is because it has fertile soil and is in the shape of a crescent?
100
This triangular structure was built for Egyptian kings.
What is a pyramid?
100
Name the three religions that were a part of this region.
What is Christianity, Islam, and Judaism?
100
This was the capital city of the Ottoman Empire.
What is Constantinople?
200
These people roamed the east coast of the Mediterranean, finding food by killing animals, fishing, and searching for wild berries, grains, fruits, and nuts.
Who are hunter-gatherers?
200
These people were the first inhabitants of Ancient Mesopotamia.
Who are the Summerians?
200
This term refers to a king or leader of Egypt.
What is a pharaoh?
200
The Jewish people are descendants of this man.
Who is Abraham?
200
He was named after King Solomon and was one of the greatest leaders of the Ottoman Empire.
Who is Sultan Suleiman I?
300
Farmers in areas of the region not near the three major rivers, relied on this to water their dry land.
What is irrigation?
300
These structures were pyramid shaped towers on which temples were built.
What is a ziggurat?
300
Hieroglyphics is a writing system that uses these.
What is pictographs to stand for words or sounds.
300
This what these three religions have in common.
What is that they are monotheistic, or believe in one god?
300
This is a government ruled by a religious leader.
What is a theocracy?
400
These were the three main water sources for the people of this region.
What are the Nile River, Tigris River, and Euphrates River?
400
This was the one of the first systems of writing.
What is cuneiform?
400
The belief in an afterlife affected the culture of the ancient Egyptians in this way.
What is they took great care in preparing their loved ones for the afterlife and built pyramids and other monuments to house the pharaohs after death?
400
This is the belief that Christians hold differently than Jews.
What is the fact that Jesus was the Christ, or Messiah?
400
This is a group of soldiers who are loyal to the sultan.
What are janissaries?
500
The process of heat and pressure from mud and sand turning the remains of dead sea organisms created this.
What is petroleum?
500
There were three levels of the caste system. Name each level and one person who was a part of each level.
What is lower-slave; middle-skilled worker, farmer, merchant; upper-king, priest, property owner
500
Name two reasons the pharaoh was important to the Egyptians.
What is 1.They thought he was the son of the suun god, Re; 2.He was linked to the sky god, Horus; 3. He was head of government, chief judge, military commander, and chief religious figure?
500
This is contained in the Qur'an.
What is God's revelations to Muhammad, as told to him by Gabriel?
500
Name the five pillars of Islam.
What is 1.Belief in one God; Muhammad is prophet.
2. Pray to Mecca 5 times daily.
3. Give to poor & needy.
4. Fast during Ramadan.
5. Make a pilgrimage to Mecca.