1. Mesopotamia
The floods of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers left this behind.
What is topsoil?
These were two of the largest and most influential civilizations in ancient Mesopotamia
What are Babylon and Assyria?
These are the earliest organized, recorded set of laws that archaeologists have found.
What is Hammurabi's code?
Phoenicia had very dense forests of what kind of trees?
What is cedar?
A famine cause the Israelites to flee here, where they were eventually enslaved.
What is Egypt?
Judaism was an influence on these two influential world religions.
What are Christianity and Islam?
Sumerians believed that gods and goddesses used these to descend to Earth.
What is a ziggurat?
Babylon's location made it a crossroads of what?
What is trade?
Different languages in Mesopotamia all used this write on clay tablets.
What is cuneiform?
How many symbols were used in the Phoenician alphabet?
What is 22?
The Torah is also known as what?
What is the Old Testament or the Hebrew Bible?
Fill in the Blank:
The male head of the Jewish family _____ his wife and children.
What is owned?
Mesopotamia is Greek for what?
What is "between the rivers"?
This city was the capital of the Assyrian Empire.
What is Nineveh?
What is class or status?
The Phoenician alphabet is the basis of the alphabet used in this language.
What is English?
Abraham led the Israelites from Mesopotamia to settle in this land.
What is Canaan?
These Jewish laws require food to be "fit for use", and states that only seafood with scales can be eaten.
What is kosher?
Sumer fell to this northern rival in the 1700s B.C.E.
What is Babylonia?
Chaldean astronomers used the stars to chart the length of what.
What is a year?
Their measurement was only a few minutes different from the length modern scientists have found.
The Sumerians' earliest written documents are records of what?
What are farm animals?
What sounds are not represented in the Phoenician alphabet?
What is vowels?
After leaving Egypt, the Israelites wandered in the desert here for 40 years.
What is the Sinai Peninsula?
Israelite Kings had to obey the same laws as common people, since Israelites considered their leaders to be what?
What is human?
Fill in the blank:
City-states had their own __1__, __2__, and eventually __3__.
What are gods/goddesses, government, and king.
This emperor rebuilt the city of Babylon.
Who is King Nebuchadnezzar II?
How would Sumerians read their writing?
What is left to right, top to bottom?
Phoenicians created a valuable purple dye from the glands of this snail.
What is a murex?
After King Solomon's death, Canaan split into these two kingdoms.
What are Israel and Judah?
This marks a time when Israelites believed their children were spared from destruction.
What is Passover?