Mesopotamia
Egypt
Other Civilizations
Israel
Sumeria
100
Two rivers that form the boundary of Mesopotamia
What are Tigris and Euphrates?
100
Egyptian civilization grew up around this river
What is the Nile River?
100
The Phoenicians established trade and colonies around the shores of this body of water
What is the Meditteranean Sea?
100
Civilization that enslaved the Israelites
What is Egypt?
100
Sumerians were ______ because they believed in many gods and goddesses
What is polytheistic?
200
Mesopotamian culture that used the sundial and created the 24-hour day
What is Sumerians?
200
Three periods of Ancient Egypt
What is the Old Kingdom, Middle Kingdom, New Kingdom?
200
Known as the "Purple People"
What is the Phoenicians?
200
Powerful king who united Israel and expanded its power
Who is Solomon?
200
Rose to power in Babylon in 1792 bc, created own law code
Who is Hammurabi?
300
Name of a Mesopotamian epic poem about a king searching for a way to live forever
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
300
The boy pharaoh who restored the worship of the old gods after Amenhotep tried to introduce new religious ideas
Who is Tutankhamen?
300
Important trading port for the Phoenicians that would one day rival Rome
What is Carthage?
300
The Chaldeans conquered Judah/Israel and took them into captivity to __________.
What is Babylon?
300
Sumerian form of wedge-shaped writing
What is cuneiform?
400
Term for the area of civilization that stretched from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf
What is the Fertile Crescent?
400
She was the first woman to become pharaoh
Who is Hatshepsut?
400
First Indo-Europeans to use iron
What is the Hittites?
400
Name of military power that overran northern Israel
What is the Assyrians?
400
Who led the Akkadians in overthrowing the Sumerians?
Who is Sargon?
500
Name at least one region of Mesopotamia
What is Sumer, Akkad, Assyria?
500
Name of the king who united Upper and Lower Egypt to create a dynasty
Who is Menes?
500
Number of letters in the Phoenician alphabet
What is 22?
500
The year the Chaldeans destroyed Jerusalem
What is 586 b.c.?
500
Name one of the major cities of Sumeria
What is Ur, Uruk, Eridu?