Egypt
What did the Egyptians do to their dead?
They mummified them and buried them in pyramids.
What religion did the ancient Israelites practice?
What is Judaism?
Which empire was monotheistic?
What is Persia?
What is the name of the religious text of Judaism?
What is Torah?
What is a push factor of migration?
What is something negative that forces someone out of a place? (war, bad economy, crime, religious persecution, famine, etc.)
What river was the Egyptians civilization built on?
What is the Nile?
Who held the Israelites in exile for 70 years?
What is Babylon?
Which empire was the largest at the time?
What is Persia?
Which two civilizations were monotheists?
Who are the Israelites and the Persians?
What did the Egyptians leave with the mummies?
What is anything they would need in the afterlife (money, food, pets, clothing, etc.)
What are Egyptian monarchs called?
What are Pharaohs?
According to Jewish tradition, who was the first person to make a covenant with God and became the father of Israel?
Who is Abraham?
Which empire was the most violent and warlike?
What is Assyria?
What is a covenant?
What is a promise between two people?
What are some things that empires would demand as tribute from their vassals?
What is taxes, food, slaves, soldiers?
What are some Egyptian technological innovations?
What are writing, calendars, engineering, paper, geometry?
What is Lex Talionis?
What is the law of retaliation?
Who created the Persian empire?
Who is Cyrus the Great?
Why did the Egyptians mummify their dead?
They believed that a person could not travel to the afterlife if they were not mummified?
After Israel split in two, who conquered the north and who conquered the south?
Assyria conquered the northern kingdom of Israel and Babylon conquered the southern kingdom of Judah
What are the names of some famous Egyptian monarchs?
Who are Ramses, Nefertiti, Tutankhamen, Hatshepsut, Khufu?
Who are some famous Israelite kings?
Who are Saul, David, Solomon?
What did the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal create?
What is a library?
Who led the Jews out of slavery in Egypt
Who is Moses?
Which civilization had magi?
Who are the Persians?