Empires and Emperors
Many Old Testament prophets warned Israel about this empire that eventually sacked Judah and Jerusalem and took many captives.
What is Babylonian (or Babylon)?
This city was the center of culture, philosophy and democracy in ancient Greece.
What is Athens?
A large burial structure that provided a place to store the mummified body of a rulers and things the ruler might need in the afterlife.
What is a pyramid?
God created this on the first day.
What is LIGHT?
The name of this popular tourist attraction, located in England, literally means "ancient circular monument of stones."
What is Stonehenge?
A well-known legend of the ancient kingdom on this island which lies very near to Greece involves a minotaur and a labyrinth.
What was Crete?
This city was known for training warriors.. and for not getting along well with other city-states in Greece.
What is Sparta?
The type of paper made from reeds that grow by the Nile River.
What is papyrus?
The first sin was this.
What is Adam and Eve eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
King David wanted to build this but God appointed his son, Solomon, to oversee the building instead.
What was the Temple? (or Solomon's Temple)
This empire lie north of the Fertile Crescent in what is now Turkey, was known for its horses, and was mentioned almost 50 times in the Bible.
Who were the Hittites?
This massive and beautiful temple to Athena was built on the Acropolis in Greece.
What is the Parthenon?
This man, who ruled Egypt for 66 years (the second longest rule in Egyptian history) was thought to be the pharaoh during the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt, but now is believed to have lived later.
Who was Ramses II, or otherwise called Ramses the Great?
The number of people who were saved from the flood on the ark.
What is eight? (Noah, his three sons, and their wives)
The earliest type of writing in ancient Mesopotamia that comes from a Latin word meaning "wedge."
What is cuneiform?
After many years in the "promised land," led by God and protected by a string of various "judges," Israelites complained that they wanted to be led by an earthly king like the other nations and wound up with this unworthy man.
Who was Saul?
This student of Plato became the tutor of Alexander the Great.
Who is Aristotle?
The mythological creature often used in Egyptian art which has the head of a man and the body of a lion.
What is a sphinx?
When God led the Israelites in the wilderness for 40 years, after the Exodus from Egypt, His glory dwelt in this large but movable structure.
What was the Tabernacle?
During the Trojan War, the Mycenaeans gave their enemies this large and infamous gift which helped them achieve victory.
What was the Trojan Horse?
This Akkadian was the world's first emperor.
Who was Sargon?
This Persian emperor, and son of Darius I, tried to achieve his father's goal of conquering Greece. Though he won the battle at Thermopylae, the Persians were later defeated and never tried again.
Who is Xerxes?
This city in Egypt was named after a Greek leader.
What is Alexandria?
Before the nation of Israel existed along the Mediterranean Sea, this land area was known by a different name.
What is Canaan?
An army of 8000 men and horse made of this material was ordered by Chinese emperor Shihuangdi to be placed in his burial chamber to protect him after his death.
What is terra-cotta?