The Land Between Two Rivers
Babyonia and Assyria
The Legacy of Mesopotamia
Mediterranean Civilizations
Israelites/Judaism
100
The Land Between Two Rivers
What does the word "Mesopotamia" mean?
100
An area of many territories and people controlled by one government
What is an empire?
100
282
How many laws were defined in Hammurabi's code?
100
purple dye
What is a valuable Phoenician resource that brought them great riches?
100
Abraham
Who is believed to have led his people out of Mesopotamia to a new home in Canaan and to have created the first monotheistic religion?
200
Rich soil and life-giving rivers
Why did civilizations develop in the Fertile Crescent?
200
Located between Sumer and Akkad
Why was Babylonia considered to be a crossroads of trade?
200
3500 BCE
What is the year that writing developed in Mesopotamia?
200
horrible monsters
What are stories told by Phoenician sailors to keep others from using their trade routes?
200
Moses
Who led his people out of slavery in Egypt and back to the "promised land." His is also believed to have received the Ten Commandments from God.
300
food surpluses
What was a major reason that early villages and city/states formed?
300
Battering ram, bow and arrow, helmets and armor
What weapons were the Assyrians know for creating?
300
Cuneiform
What is the name of writing that uses lines and wedges to represent symbols?
300
alphabet
What is a set of symbols that represent the "sounds" of a language?
300
AD 1947
When were the concealed jars containing the Dead Sea Scrolls discovered?
400
Polytheism
What is the belief in "many" gods?
400
612 BCE
In what year did the Medes and the Chaldeans "smash" the Assyrian empire?
400
scribe
What is the name given to people who knew how to read and write in Mesopotamia?
400
cedar trees
What is a valuable resource that helped the Phoenicians become a wealthy trading nation?
400
diaspora
What is a "scattering of people" - often associated with the Romans exiling the Jews from their homeland?
500
A special god or goddess, its own government and customs, and its own king
What is a city-state?
500
The Epic of Gilgamesh
What is the oldest "epic" ever discovered?
500
Shamash
Who is the god who presented the code of laws to Hammurabi?
500
Cadiz
What is the name of the Phoenician trading center that was farthest from main cities of Tyre and Sidon?
500
586 BCE
When did King Nebuchadnezzar destroy Solomon's temple
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