Geography
Mesopotamia is located between these 2 rivers.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
A time period of 10 years.
What is a decade?
The name for early humans who migrated from place to place following animals and gathering nuts, seeds and berries.
What is Hunter-gatherers?
This allowed for scribes to keep record of taxes and record written laws.
What is cuneiform?
The "Father of Judaism".
Who is Abraham?
The mountains located just east of the Tigris river.
What are the Zagros Mountains?
A secular time designation used for current times.
What is CE?
This invention allowed humans to cook their meat, provided light and warmth.
What is the invention of fire?
Earliest know epic poem written in cuneiform.
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
This leader led the Hebrews out of Egypt and to the Promised Land.
Who is Moses?
This region from the Nile river to the Zagros mountains that had rich soil.
What is the fertile crescent?
A period of 100 years.
What is a century?
A turning point in history when humans stopped being nomadic.
What is the agricultural revolution?
To avoid flooding and crops being destroyed Mesopotamians developed this.
What is irrigation?
This leader created a strong central government in Israel.
Who is King David?
The large body of water directly west of Canaan.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
Place the following dates in chronological order:
536 BC, 977 BC, 12 BC, !350 BC
What is....
1350 BC, 977 BC, 536 BC, 12 BC
To change the growth of plants or the behavior of animals in ways that are useful to humans.
What is domestication?
The leader who created the world's first empire.
Who is Sargon?
Solomon build an important building to honor the God of the Jews.
What is the temple?
The 3 main bodies of water in ancient Israel.
What are the Sea of Galilee, the Jordan River and the Dead Sea?
Place the following dates in chronological order:
68 Ad, 86 BC, 1100 BC, 213 AD
What is....
1100 BC, 86 BC, 68 AD, 213 AD
Once there was a stable food supply then what developed in early civilizations?
What is job specialization?
He created a set of law codes to govern his country and posted them on stele's around the empire.
Who is Hammurabi?
This leader conquered Babylon and allowed the Jews to return to their homeland.
Who is Cyrus the Great?