Planet Earth (Geography)
The Nile River
What is the longest river on the planet Earth?
Desert
Which landform covered most of ancient Mesopotamia?
Arabic
Which language is spoken in present-day Lebanon?
The flooding nile brought fertile silt
How did the Egyptians grow crops in a country that is mostly desert?
Abraham
Who was able to spread the belief or worshiping only one God, the foundation of the Jewish religion, to many people and places in the world?
Prime Meridian
What is the zero-degree line of longitude called?
Iraq
Which country exists today in the area that was ancient Mesopotamia?
Myrex snail
Where the purple dye that the Phonecians were famous for came from?
The heart
What organ was placed back inside the mummy before it was wrapped up?
Egypt Jordan Syria Lebanon
What are the countries that border Israel?
7 Billion
Approximately how many people live on the planet Earth?
Keep records of trade and laws
Anthropologists believe that the first use of cuneiform, the earliest form of writing, was to_____________?
The phonecian alphebet
What did the Phonecians share with everyone they met as they traveled, which made an important contribution to people today?
The brain
What body part is discarded by the embalmer during mummification?
In the ark of the covenant
Where was the copy of the Ten Commandments kept?
Strait
What is a narrow section of water called that connects two larger bodies of water?
Akkadians
Which warrior people were known as the cruelest group to live in Mesopotamia?
The Greek
The Phonecians spread stories of sea monsters to discourage which people from competing with them along their trade routes?
The Rosetta stone
What helped Jean-Francois Champollion translate hieroglyphic writing?
Jacob, grandson of Abraham
Who had 12 sons that later led the 12 tribes of Israel?
Atlas
What is a book of maps called?
scribe
Who were the few people in ancient times who could read and write?
They didn’t have enough room for farmland
Why did the Phonecians become sailors and traders instead of farmers?
A step in the sand
After 5 years of no success, what was the first thing that Howard Carter’s workers discovered in their excavation of the Egyptian desert?
Yom Ha'atzmaut
Which Jewish holiday celebrates the New Year?