The Fertile Crescent
Mesopotamia
Babylonia and Assyria
Hebrews, Phoenicians, and Lydians
People, Places, and Things
100
One of the first civilizatons settled between two of these in the Fertile Crescent.
What are two rivers?
100
This word describes what the first Mesopotamians did for a living.
What is farming?
100
The basis of life for Assyrian citizens.
What is war and conquest?
100
The type of religion that Abraham agreed to practice when he made the covenant with God.
What is monotheism (Judaism)
100
Israel split into two two parts after the death of this king.
Who is King Solomon?
200
The main reason why people first settled in southern Mesopotamia.
What is plenty of fresh water?
200
This system of writing was first developed by the Mesopotamians.
What is cuneiform?
200
He ruled the kingdom of Babylonia and created a code of laws by which to live.
Who is Hammurabi?
200
The kingdom formed when King David united the Hebrew tribes.
What is Israel?
200
These provided guidance for worshipping God and set down rules for moral behavior.
What are the Ten Commandments?
300
The way that early people in Mesopotamia made farming successful.
What is they irrigated their crops?
300
The advantage that cuneiform had over picture writing.
What is it was simpler?
300
The set of 282 laws which purpose was to protect the people.
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
300
The purpose for which King Solomon built his temple.
What is to house the Torah?
300
This practice showed how the Sumerians linked their religion and government and means the right to rule is "god-given".
What is divine kingship?
400
This is what successful farming practices led to in the Fertile Crescent.
What is surplus of food?
400
A city that is an individual unit, complete with its own form of government and traditions.
What is a city-state?
400
Babylon was described as great and glorious under this king's rule.
Who is Nebuchadnezzar II?
400
The way in which the Phoenician's spread goods and ideas.
What is trading?
400
When the Sumerians invented this, they were able to keep records of trade, literature, medical texts, law codes, and wise sayings.
What is writing (cuneiform)?
500
The two rivers that outline the Fertile Crescent.
What are The Tigris and Eurphrates rivers?
500
City-state in northern Mesopotamia.
What is Akkad?
500
What King Ashurbanipal is best known for.
What is conquering others and gaining more lands?
500
The major contribution of the Lydians that still exists today.
What is coins?
500
This king ordered massive building projects in Babylon, completed the great ziggurat, and built walls to protect the city.
Who is King Nebuchadnezzar?
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