Mesopotamia
The first civilization of Mesopotamia
What is Sumer?
The river of Egypt
What is the Nile?
The continent Egypt is located on
What is Africa?
The Father of Judaism
Who is Abraham?
The longest river in the Western hemisphere
What is the Amazon?
Large pyramid-like temple at a city’s center
What is a Ziggurat?
The 2 rivers of Mesopotamia are the Tigris and the______________
What is the Euphrates?
Another name for the Old Kingdom
What is the Pyramid Age?
Abraham led the Hebrew people out of this land
What is Mesopotamia?
Who are St. Carlo Acutis and St. Pier Giorgio Frassati?
The technical advancement that allowed farmers to reroute water to their fields
What is irrigation?
The 2 rivers of Mesopotamia are the Euphrates and the______________
What is the Tigris?
These people conquered the Egyptians and ruled at the end of the Middle Kingdom until the beginning of the New Kingdom
What are the Hyksos?
The Talmud and this other text are 2 major holy books to the Jewish people
What is the Torah?
The Vice President's name
What is JD Vance?
Religion in Mesopotamia was mostly_______ meaning they believed in many gods
What is polytheistic?
The Nile flowed this direction
What is North?
The first written language that was developed in Egypt
What are hieroglyphics?
In 722 BC, Israel fell to this empire
What are the Assyrians?
The secondary colors of the color wheel
What are purple, orange, and green?
Among many achievements, this one demonstrated the elevated writing skills of Mesopotamians
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
The natural barrier to the North of Egypt
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
The title of the text that Egyptians would be buried with so as to help them in the afterlife
What is the Book of the Dead?
This king made Jerusalem into a powerful and impressive capital
Who was David?
The Greek god of thunder and lightning
Who is Zues?