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100
This is the land between two rivers.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
100
The name of the world's oldest recorded civilization.
What is Sumer?
100
This is the name of an educated writer in Sumerian times.
What is a scribe?
100
The professional name of people who have found the remains of many statures and artifacts during this time period.
What is archaeologists?
100
The world's oldest civilization.
What is the Ancient Middle East?
200
The two rivers located in Mesopotamia.
What is Tigris and Euphrates?
200
The Israelites recorded their history in this text.
What is the Hebrew Bible?
200
This word means believing in many gods/goddesses.
What is polytheistic?
200
Stories were often passed down in this manner during the Sumerian times.
What is orally, from story teller to story teller.
200
The capital city of Jerusalem captured by King David.
Jerusalem
300
Mesopotamia was located in these modern countries.
What is Iraq, Iran, Turkey, and Syria?
300
One invention of the Sumerian that we still use today.
What calendar and 60 minute hour?
300
This is the name of the Israelites code of ethics or written law.
What is the Ten Commandments?
300
This is the name of an epic poem recounting the adventures of a legendary king who seeks eternal life.
What is Gilgamesh?
300
The special agreement established by Yahweh and the Hebrews.
What is the covenant?
400
The Middle East stands at the crossroads of these three continents.
What is Africa, Asia, and Europe?
400
The Sumerians are credited with one of these inventions.
What is wheeled vehicles, astronomy, calendar, plow, sail, or number system?
400
This word means believing in ONE god.
What is monotheistic?
400
This is the name of a towering building in the center of a city.
What is a ziggurat?
400
The god of Sumerian vegetation.
What is Abu?
500
The world's oldest civilization began this many years ago.
What is 5,000?
500
The oldest system of of writing.
What is cuneiform?
500
The Israelites helped shape these two current world religions.
What is Christianity and Islam?
500
The surviving artwork of Mesopotamia serves one of these two functions.
What is glorify the god or glorify the ruler?
500
The author of "Half a Day."
What is Naguib Mahfouz?
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