Names & Places
Land between the rivers
Mesopotamia
The two rivers
Tigris & Euphrates
Sargon's capital
Akkad
from a mollusk found off the Phoenician coast
Land flowing with milk and honey
Canaan
descendants of Ham and Shem
The Summerians
earliest form of known writing
Cuneiform
6th King of the Amorites
Hammurabi
Used in the construction of Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem
Cedars of Lebanon
Upper Egypt
birth place of the father of many nations
Ur
Their major occupation
farming
Amorite contributions to math
algebra & geometry
Capital of Phoenicia
Tyre
1st capital of Egypt
Memphis
First known emperor
Sargon
Ziggurats
Stretched from the Persian Gulf to Northern Mesopotamia
the Akkadian empire
Main god of the Phoenicians
Baal
430 years
number of years Israel was in Egypt
Where God gave the law to Moses
Mt. Sinai
things they developed still used today
wheel
360 degree circle
division of hours and minutes into 60
Old Babylonian
Empire
daughter of the king of Sidon
Jezebel
Pharaoh of the Hebrew Exodus
Thutmose III