Geography
What two rivers surround Mesopotamia?
The Tigris and Euphrates
What is a ziggurat?
An ancient place of worship, a tiered building with steps to reach the gods
What was the name of Hammurabi's list of written rules to follow?
Hammurabi's Code
What is the name of goods that were shipped OUT of a country (exiting a country)
Exports
"If you can read this, thank a Phoenician" is because the Phoenician's invented the first what?
Alphabet
On what continent would you find the fertile crescent?
Asia
What does monotheism mean?
Belief in one god
What was the main idea of Hammurabi's code? (an ________ for an ___________, a _________ for a ________)
An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth
Jews and Christians believed God give the 10 commandments to whom?
Moses
What piece of military technology were the Assyrian's known for?*
Battering rams
What country did Moses lead the Hebrew's out of?
Egypt
What does the name "Mesopotamia" mean?
The land between two rivers
Hammurabi's Code gives us the first ______________ and __________________.
Laws and consequences
The Torah is what?
The Jewish holy book (similar to the bible)
What was the exodus?
When God came to Moses to lead the Hebrew's out of Egypt
What body of water is South (below) the fertile crescent (Mesopotamia)?
Hint: it's a Gulf
Persian Gulf
What is the name of a state containing several countries or territories?
City-state
What was the name of the empire that Hammurabi ruled over?
Babylonian Empire
The largest groups of people in Mesopotamia were who?
Farmers and slaves
The teachers or leaders of Jewish people are known as who?*
Rabbis or prophets
What present day country do the Tigris and Euphrates rivers flow through?
Iraq
What is the name of the wedge shaped symbols used by the Sumerians to represent sounds, words or ideas?
Cuneiform
What was Hammurabi's Code written on?
Clay tablets
Which sea did Phoenicians travel?
Mediterranean Sea
Timelines move from left to right (like reading a book). When looking at a timeline, are things to the left older, or younger, than things to the right?
Older