Mesopotamia
Curved shape of land between the Tigris and the Euphrates Rivers
What is the Fertile Crescent or Mesopotamia?
The king or ruler was called the _______.
Who is the Pharaoh?
What is the belief in a single god?
What is monotheism?
Phoenicians were master ____________.
What is ship builders and seafarers?
Egyptian form of writing
What is hieroglyphics?
Sumerian temple; Temple in Mesopotamia
What is a ziggurat?
Egyptian pharaohs put religion and government together by being thought of as:
What are human gods?
The founder of Judaism is:
Who is Abraham
Phoenicians created an alphabet to help them with _______.
What is trading?
Sumerian form of writing
What is cuneiform?
What two groups were at the top of Mesopotamian societies
Who are priests and kings?
How was Mesopotamian and Egyptian religion similar?
Both are polytheistic
What is a Jewish temple called?
What is a synagogue
Phoenician traders spread their ______ to people with whom they traded.
What is alphabet system?
We base our alphabet on the alphabet of which group of people?
Who are the Phoenicians?
Ruler who united Mesopotamia under one rule; King of Babylon and wrote a code of laws
Who is Hammurabi?
What was the purpose of a pyramid?
To carry the bodies and worldly possessions of Egyptian Pharaohs into the afterlife
According to Judaism, who was sent by God to serve as his voice to the people?
Prophets
Phoenicians are said to have developed writing for what specific purpose?
To properly record transactions
The development of cuneiform marked the beginning of ______________.
What is written history?
Mesopotamia is in what modern-day country?
Where is Iraq?
What were the benefits for Egypt and Mesopotamia being along rivers?
their waters provided places to hunt and fish. Also, as the rivers flooded, the lands around them became fertile.
What religion was responsible for creating the concept of satan and angels?
What is Zoroastrianism?
Phoenicians set up city-states and trading posts throughout the ___________.
What is the Mediterranean and into the Atlantic?
What is the use of pictures that represent a word or phrase?
What is a pictograph?