Geography of the Middle East
These two rivers flow around the Fertile Crescent.
What are the Tigris & Euphrates?
The belief in only one God, unique to the Israelites in ancient times.
What is monotheism?
The place all Egyptians want to go at the end of their life.
He was at the top of Egyptian society and considered divine.
Who is the Pharaoh?
What is geometry?
The sea located West of the Israelites promised land.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
The Father of the Jewish people.
Who is Abraham?
The god who Egyptians believed weighed your heart against a feather to decide if you were worthy of eternal life.
Who is Anubis?
The occupation of most people in Egypt.
What are farmers?
A practice by ancient Egyptians mixing science and magic beliefs.
What is medicine?
The promised land, according to Jewish beliefs and traditions.
What is Canaan?
The list of the most basic rules followed by all Hebrews.
What are the 10 Commandments?
Everyone's job for eternity if they made it to the afterlife.
What is a farmer?
He reigned during the New Kingdom and signed the first peace treaty with the Hittites.
What was Ramses II?
Instrument developed for farming by studying the stars.
What is a calendar?
What is the Persian Gulf?
The Hebrew kingdom taken over by Assyrians in 722BC.
What is Israel?
The god & goddess of death.
Who are Osiris & Isis?
The time period where Egypt experienced droughts and foreign invasions.
What is the Middle Kingdom?
The only people in ancient Egypt who could read and write.
What are scribes?
What is Mesopotamia?
The Hebrew kingdom taken over by the Babylonians in 586 BC.
What is Judah?
Egyptians placed this object over a mummified person's heart to protect them on their journey to the afterlife.
What is a scarab amulet?
He wrote the book on how to be a good advisor to the pharaoh.
Who was Ptah-hotep?
The discovery that helped archaeologists decipher hieroglyphs.
What is the Rosetta Stone?