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What is the Fertile Crescent?
Sumerian civilization rose in a land that is present-day _______.
What is Iraq?
The largest building of Sumerian cities.
What is ziggurats?
in mathematics, Sumerians developed _______ and _________.
What is algebra?
What is geometry?
He is considered the father of the Israelites and their religion.
Who is Abraham?
This term means, "between rivers"
The Tigris-Euphrates Valley lies in an area that stretches in an arc from the Persian Gulf to the ______ ________.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
Where have archaeologists found goods from in Sumerian cities.
What is Egypt?
What is India?
The Israelites were ________, believing in one god.
The Israelites believed that God had made a promise and agreement with who?
Who is Abraham?
The worlds first civilization developed in this region.
What is Sumer?
What two rivers flow from the highlands of modern-day Turkey through Iraq into the Persian Gulf.
What is Tigris River?
What is Euphrates River?
Each Sumerian city-state had a distinct social _______.
What is hierarchy?
The earliest form of writing, invented by the Sumerians.
What is cuneiform?
According †o the Torah, Abraham was born near ____ in _______________.
What is Ur?
What is Mesopotamia?
The Fertile Crescent has often been called what?
What is crossroads of the world?
A form of government led by a king or queen born into a ruling family.
What is monarchy?
What is often referred to as the Books of Law?
What is the Torah?
Abraham moved from Ur and moved to Haran, located in present-day ________.
What is Syria?
Who established Jerusalem as its capital AND who was his son.
Who is David?
Who is Solomon?
The title of the poem that describes a great flood that destroys the world.
What is The Epic of Gilgamesh?
On rare occasion, a Sumerian woman may have inherited ________.
What is property?
The rich heritage of Mesopotamian civilizations was later passed on to the _______ and _________.
What are Greeks?
What are Romans?
What armies captured Judah and in which year?
What is Babylonian?
What is 586 B.C.?