Early History
Mesopotamia
Israelites
Vocabulary
Miscellaneous
100
This term describes the shift from hunting and gathering to settled societies.
What is the Neolithic Revolution?
100
This king united Mesopotamia into a kingdom called Babylon.
Who is Hammurabi?
100
This word means a belief in one god.
What is monotheistic?
100
This word describes the act of putting events in the order that they occurred.
What is chronology?
100
Your textbook is this kind of source.
What is secondary?
200
This word has both a subjective and objective meaning. In its objective meaning, it describes an ordered society that is dependent on agriculture.
What is civilization?
200
This piece of literature describes the hero's quest to find immortality.
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
200
This word describes the agreement between the Israelites and God.
What is covenant?
200
This word describes a society in which men have power over women.
What is patriarchy?
200
This is the name of the hurricane affecting our weather this weekend.
What is Joaquin?
300
This period preceded the shift to agriculture.
What is the Paleolithic Period?
300
For most of Mesopotamian history, this was the main political unit.
What is city state?
300
This is the book of the bible recounting Moses' deeds.
What is Exodus?
300
This word means government offices that carry out the laws.
What is bureaucracy?
300
This is the word Egyptians used for their kings.
What is Pharoah?
400
Name an early river valley civilization that is NOT Mesopotamia.
What is Egypt, Yellow Valley China, Indus Valley India?
400
This god supposedly gave Hammurabi his code of laws.
Who is Marduk?
400
The section of the Bible we read about Jewish law is from this book.
What is Deuteronomy?
400
This word describes the cultural ideas that are associated with males and females.
What is gender?
400
Name one food restriction from the Hebrew (Jewish) Bible.
Many answers!
500
This is the date range used in class to describe the Neolithic Revolution.
What is 8500 to 3500 BCE?
500
Mesopotamia was located between these two rivers.
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates?
500
The earliest existing copy of the Hebrew (Jewish) Bible is from this century.
What is 2nd century BCE?
500
This word describes the act of putting a series of events into a category based on shared characteristics.
What is periodization?
500
Mesopotamian civilization existed during these dates.
What is 3500-1600 BCE?
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