Old Babylon
Mesopotamia
Ancient Egypt
Ancient Phoenician
Ancient Hebrews
100
The people who were responsible for invading the city of Ur and establishing the Old Babylonian Empire
Who were the Amorites?
100
The modern-day location of the Middle East.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
100
King who united upper and lower Egypt around 3000 B.C.
Who was Menes?
100
The leading city-state of Phoenicia, composed of a coastal land and an island.
What is Tyre?
100
The covenant God made with Abraham
What is the Abrahamic Covenant?
200
He is best remembered as his code of law
Who was Hammurabi?
200
Name ONE of the two rivers that flowed through Mesopotamia.
What is the Tigris River? OR What is the Euphrates River?
200
The major river that flows through Egypt.
What is the Nile River?
200
One of the Cananites' gods whom the Phoenicians worshiped.
Who is Baal?
200
Jewish leader in Egypt casted out by his brothers
Who was Joseph?
300
A noted example of Babylonian literature
What was the Epic of Gilgamesh?
300
Belief in many gods
What is polytheism?
300
Herodotus' nickname for Egypt
What is 'the gift of the Nile'?
300
The nickname of the Phoenicians
What is 'Merchants of the Mediterranean'?
300
People governed directly by God
What is theocracy?
400
This field of science flourished around this time.
What is astronomy?
400
Earliest form of writing, wedged-shape
What is cuneiform?
400
King Khufu commissioned the building of this famous building in Giza:
What is the Great Pyramid?
400
Name one of Phoenician's valuable natural resources
What are mollusks producing purple dye? or What are cedar and fir trees?
400
A man "after God's own heart"
Who was David?
500
If a man accuse another man of murdering, but cannot prove it, the accuser shall be put to death
What was the code of Hammurabi
500
Earliest Sumerian temple towers
What are ziggurats?
500
1st woman pharaoh
Who was Hatshepsut?
500
Uniform symbols that stand for distinct sounds
What is the Phoenician alphabet?
500
The Israelite leader as the Hebrews began their conquest of the land of Canaan.
Who was Joshua?