People of Asia
The event that marks the beginning of history
What is the creation of Adam and Eve?
The ruler of a tribe
What is a chief?
This event marked the beginning of human government
What is the flood?
Took the Southern kingdom of Israel into captivity
Who are the Babylonians?
The mountain upon which Noah's arc rested?
What is Mt. Ararat?
Prophet who served in the government of Babylon and Persia
Who was Daniel?
This famous citizen of Ur was promised the land of Canaan by God
Who is Abraham?
These are rulers of an absolute monarchy
What are a shah, czar, and sultan?
This event marked the beginning of different languages
What is the Tower of Babel?
Made beautiful purple dye called from a sea snail called murex
Who are the Phoenicians?
This beautiful place is where history began
Where is the Garden of Eden?
The clever Persian ruler who allowed the Jews to return to Jerusalem
Who was Cyrus the Great?
This queen's tomb was discovered in ancient Ur
Who is Lady Shubad?
The ruler for a constitutional monarch
What is a king or queen?
The most important event in human history
What is Christ coming to earth?
This empire was discovered by archaeologists which is evidence of the Truth of the Bible
What is the Hittite empire?
The land "between the rivers"
What is Mesopotamia?
The missionary willing to "burn out" for God
Who is Henry Martyn?
This king ordered a ziggurat to be built in Ur (his namesake)
Who is Ur-Nammu?
The ruler of a republic
What is a president?
The two largest producers of oil in the Middle East
Who are Saudi Arabia and Iran?
The descendants of Abraham
Who are the Hebrews?
The "Cradle of Civilization"
What is the Fertile Crescent?
The "enlightened one"
Who is Buddha?
This archaeologist discovered evidence of a great flood
Who is Sir Leonard Woolley?
The setting up of authorities to rule a city
What is government?
This tropic line runs through the Middle East
What is the Tropic of Cancer?
They defeated the Babylonian Empire
Who are the Persians?
The southern part of Sumer
What is Chaldea?
First to bring cotton goods to Europe
Who is Alexander the Great?
These taught in Sumerian schools
Who are the priests?
the land in which a nation dwells
What is a country?
The largest city in Turkey
What is Istanbul?
Defeated the Persians
Who are the Greeks?
The most important Sumerian city
What is Ur?
First European to reach India by sailing around Africa
Who is Vasco da Gama?
These were the most common occupations in ancient Sumer
What are farmers and herdsmen?
The founder of Islam
Who is Muhammad?
The National Water Carrier is located here
Where is Israel?
The very rich, last king of Lydia which led to the saying "as rich as _______"
Who is Croesus?
the three continents that meet at the Middle East
What are Asia, Africa, and Europe?
The "Father of Modern Missionaries"
Who is William Carey?
The pupils in Sumerian schools
What are boys from wealthy families?
The largest religious group in the world
Who are Muslims?
The island nation located south of Turkey
What is Cyprus?
Led the Hebrews out of Egypt and received the ten Commandments on Mt. Sinai
Who is Moses?
The lowest place on the earth's land surface
What is the Dead Sea?
A key leader in India's struggle for independence
Who is Gandhi?
Arabs who wonder from place to place
What are bedouins?
The two holy cities for Muslims
What are Mecca and Medina?
The largest Middle Eastern nation
What is Saudi Arabia?
led the Israelites victory at Jericho
Who is Joshua?
The largest and most important river in Israel
What is the Jordan?
First prime minister of India
Who is Nehru?
The leaders of Israel chosen by God (before kings)
Who are Judges?
The holy book of Islam
What is the Koran?
A section of a city
What is a quarter?
First king of Israel was dethroned for disobedience
Who was Saul?
The peninsula that is home to Turkey today
What is the Asia Minor Peninsula?
The "rescuer of Indian children"
Who is Amy Carmichael?
Developed first alphabet
Who are the Phoenicians?
The god of Islam
Who is Allah?
India's capital and largest city
What are New Delhi and Mumbai (Bombay)?
Second king of Israel and was a man after God's own heart
Who was David?
Three important rivers in the Middle East
What are the Jordan, Tigris, and Euphrates?
The four castes in order of importance
What are the Brahmins, warriors / princes, landowners / merchants, and farmers / servants?
Built an early empire
Who are the Hittites?
The first prime minister of Israel
Who is David Ben-Gurion?
Structure built as a tomb for the wife of an Indian ruler
What is the Taj Mahal?
Third king of Israel and built the Temple
Who was Solomon?
Three peninsulas of the Middle East
What are the Arabian, Sinai, and Asia Minor peninsulas?
The dynasty ruling India at the time of Christ
What is the Mauryan Dynasty?
Minted the world's first coins
Who are the Lydians?
The three religions that began in the Middle East
What are Judaism, Christianity, and Islam?
World's highest mountain and country of location
What is Mt. Everest and Nepal?
A prophet who warned Nineveh to repent
Who was Jonah?
What is Tel Aviv?
Indian contributions to mathematics
What are place value and zero?
Too wicked to accomplish anything
Who are the Canaanites?
Sumerian moon God
Who is Nanna?
Today West Pakistan is ______ and East Pakistan is__________
What are Pakistan and Bangladesh?
Babylonian king who wrote down laws
Who was Hammurabi?
Used to be called Persia
What is Iran?
Rivers of India
What are the Indus, Ganges, and Brahmaputra?
Took the Northern Kingdom of Israel into captivity
Who are the Assyrian?
The head of a Bedouin tribe
Who is a sheik?
Mountain range between China and India
What are the Himalayas?
Built the Hanging Gardens of Babylon
Who was Nebuchadnezzar?
Middle East's second highest mountain
What is Mt. Ararat?
The main religion in India today
What is Hinduism?