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a wooden box discovered by Sir Leonard Woolley
many gods
What is polytheism?
Jonah preached here
What is Ninevah?
First emporer of Akkadian Empire
Who was Sargon I
Capital of Judah
What is Jerusalem?
Sumerian Schools
What are tablet houses?
writings about Sumerian gods and military victories
What are epics?
The capital of the Chaldean Empire
What is Babylon?
Tells how Utnapishtim built a ship
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
A system where people traded goods and services
What is barter?
Boys studied in Sumerians schools to become this
What are scribes?
Given to Moses by God
What is the Mosaic Law?
Wrote a letter after God humbled him
Who was Nebuchadnezzar?
Recognized the concept of Zero
Who are the Mesopotamians?
What is the Fertile Crescent?
Wrote laws with no religious sections
considered to be god's highest representative
What is a king?
The type of chariots used by the Hittites
What is iron?
The scientific study of the stars
What is astronomy?
Farmers used this to help water their crops
What is irrigation?
A pyramid like temple
What is a ziggurat?
Used by God to punish His disobedient people
Who were the Assyrians?
Judged Ninevah for its wickedness
Who is God?
Besides the Tigris, the other Mesopotamian river
What is the Euphrates?
These formed armies to fight others and get more farmland
What are city-states?
The wedge shaped writing of the Sumerians
What is cuneiform?
used this to measure fields and build temples
What is geometry?
God gave a warning to him by writing on the wall
Who is Belshazzar?
The smallest unit of weight
What is barley-corn?
Used this to develop a 12 month calendar
What are the cycles of the moon?