Mesopotamia
What does Mesopotamia mean?
What is "between rivers"
What continent is the Nile River on?
What is the continent of Africa?
What does B.C. stand for?
What is: Before Christ?
What river did the Indus Valley rely on?
What was: The Indus River?
What accomplishment is Hammurabi most recognized for?
What is: the Code of Hammurabi?
What rivers frame the Fertile Crescent region?
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
What is the name of the process of preserving a dead royal's body?
What is the process of embalming?
Which patriarch was the first to move to Canaan/the Promised Land?
Who was: Abraham?
What were the Phoenicians famous for?
What were: sailing the mediterranean, making dye?
What does polytheism mean?
What is: a belief in many gods as opposed to monotheism, a belief in a single god.
What is one civilization that inhabited the Mesopotamian region?
What were: the civilization of Akkad, Sumer, Babylon, and Assyria?
What is the name of one of the Egyptian gods?
What were: Ra, Osiris, Horus, Isis?
What is another name for the patriarch Jacob?
What is Israel?
What two modern day countries did the Indus River Civilization encompass?
What are: India and Pakistan?
Who was a famous Assyrian "dictator"?
Who was: Shamshi-Adad?
What are three things that are needed to survive in the wild? (Hint: Think about survival skills.)
What are: cutting tools, cover, containers, combustion (fire), cordages (rope)?
What is the Nile Delta?
What is: the area at the top of the Nile River that splits into smaller rivers and streams?
What does A.D. stand for?
What is anno Domini, meaning "in the year of our Lord."
What historian recorded the story of the founding of Carthage (a colony of Tyre)?
Who was: the historian Virgil?
What civilization created ziggurat temple structures?
What is the Babylonian empire?
What three rivers combine to form the Fertile Crescent?
What are: The Nile River, the Tigris River, the Euphrates River?
What were two tribes in ancient Egypt?
What were the upper and lower kingdoms?
What is another name for Canaan?
What is: Palestine?
What is a famous insult that people would use toward the people of Tyre?
What is, "You smell like a person from Tyre"?
Which Chinese leader united the Chinese villages?
Who was Huang Di?