Geography
Cities of Sumer
Babylon and Assyria
Birth of Judaism
Miscellaneous
100
This is the loose top soil brought into the Fertile Crescent by flooding.
What is silt?
100
The writing system of the ancient Mesopotamians.
What is cuneiform?
100
A raised waterway that carried water into the city.
What is an aqueduct?
100
All of the Jewish people were descendents from this man.
Who was Abraham?
100
Where Moses was given the Ten Commandments.
What is Mount Sinai?
200
The "Land Between the Rivers".
What is Mesopotamia?
200
An official writer.
What is a scribe?
200
This man's "code of law" was known throughout his kingdom.
Who is Hammurabi?
200
God made one of the these "promises" to Abraham when he assured him many descendents.
What is a covenant?
200
The worship of one god.
What is monotheism?
300
Long periods without rain.
What are droughts?
300
A region of southern Mesopotamia which contained about 12 cities.
What is Sumer?
300
The Empire with Babylon as its capital.
What is Babylonia (or Babylonian Empire)?
300
One who speaks with God.
What is a prophet?
300
Worship of many gods.
What is polytheism?
400
This is how Mesopotamians brought water to their crops.
What is irrigation (or canals or aqueducts)?
400
A self-governing or sovereign city.
What is a city-state?
400
This was written on a pillar in the middle of town.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
400
The Jewish Bible.
What is the Torah?
400
If the Egyptian Empire lasted from 1600 BC to 950 BC, it was around for this many years.
What is 650 years?
500
The wearing away of soil by wind or rain.
What is erosion?
500
The temple of worship, shaped like a flat-topped pyramid.
What is a ziggurat?
500
This is what Hammurabi built to get other city-states to cooperate with his plan.
What are dams?
500
The scattering of Jews away from their homeland.
What is a diaspora?
500
The equal sections of a timeline representing a set amount of time are known as these.
What are time periods?
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