Prominent People
The descendant of Ham who emerged as the leader of postdiluvian mankind and built the first world empire.
Who is Nimrod?
Located in lower Mesopotamia, this region was the site of the world's first postdiluvian civilization.
What is Sumer?
The wedge-shaped system of writing developed by the Sumerians, recognized as their greatest contribution to civilization.
What is cuneiform?
The fruitful crescent-shaped strip of land in western Asia known as the "Cradle of Civilization".
What is the Fertile Crescent?
The Latin phrase meaning "in the year of our Lord," used to designate time after the birth of Christ.
What is Anno Domini (A.D.)?
The ruler of Ur who founded the Third Dynasty of Ur and developed the world's most ancient written law code.
Who is Ur-Nammu?
An Indo-European empire in Asia Minor renowned as the first people to use iron extensively in warfare.
What is the Hittite Empire?
Massive Sumerian temple-towers constructed with diminishing terraces topped by a shrine.
What are ziggurats?
The Greek term meaning "between the rivers," referring to the land situated between the Tigris and Euphrates.
What is Mesopotamia?
The age-old attempt of man to exalt himself above God, epitomized by the worship of man.
What is humanism?
The king of Babylon who codified nearly 300 laws to enforce justice across the Old Babylonian Empire.
Who is Hammurabi?
The empire synonymous with terror and cruelty that conquered the Northern Kingdom of Israel in 721 B.C.
What is the Assyrian Empire?
The mathematical principle developed by the Babylonians that assigned values to numbers based on their position in a series.
What is place-value notation?
The plain in lower Mesopotamia where postdiluvian mankind settled and attempted to build the Tower of Babel.
What is the Plain of Shinar?
A system of government in which God Himself rules directly over a nation through chosen leaders.
What is a theocracy?
The last great monarch of Assyria who constructed the ancient world's first great library at Nineveh.
Who is Ashurbanipal?
The empire that destroyed Jerusalem in 586 B.C. and carried the people captive, including a man named Daniel.
What is the Neo-Babylonian Empire?
The early phonetic writing system created by Semites in the Sinai Peninsula that served as the ancestor of our modern alphabet.
What is the Sinai script?
The great Assyrian capital city where thousands of cuneiform tablets were collected into a library.
What is Nineveh?
The process of spreading cultural traits and patterns from one group of people or region to another.
What is cultural diffusion?
The Persian king who conquered Babylon in 539 B.C. and issued a decree allowing the Jews to return to Judah to rebuild the Temple.
Who is Cyrus the Great?
The vast empire divided into satrapies by Darius I that established the world's first postal service.
What is the Persian Empire?
Considered the world's oldest work of literature outside the Bible, detailing a legendary king's tragic search for eternal life.
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
The mountain where God made a solemn covenant with Israel and delivered the Ten Commandments.
What is Mount Sinai (Mount Horeb)?
The militant religion founded in Arabia by Mohammed during the A.D. 600s whose followers are called Muslims.
What is Islam?