Mesopotamia
Mesopotamia lies between these two rivers.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
According to Ancient Egyptian tradition, this process was used to preserve the body of an individual for the afterlife.
What is Mummification?
This Jewish holiday is the celebration of the Exodus of the Israelites.
What is Passover?
This sudden decline of a vast number of civilizations throughout the ancient world, still has no clear cause, though many theories exist.
What is The Bronze Age Collapse?
This term is used to describe a religion which worships many gods.
What is polytheism?
This Babylonian King was perhaps most well known for his famous law code.
Who is Hammurabi?
This Ancient Egyptian concept held the ideals of balance between order and chaos.
What is Ma'at?
According to Jewish tradition this was the man who God said his descendants would outnumber the stars.
Who is Abraham?
First discovered by Arthus Evans, these impressive structures came to characterize the Minoan civilization.
What are palaces?
This type of source is a source of information that was created at the time under study.
What is a primary source?
This Mesopotamian word meaning, "Big Man" came to be the early kings of Mesopotamia.
What is Lugal?
These regional governors of Egypt came to control the country during the tumultuous era of the First Intermediate Period.
Who are the Nomarchs?
The Ancient Israelites held this belief, meaning they believe in only one god.
What is Monotheism?
The Phoenicians, knows as the "Purple People" by the Greeks, were famous for the making of these three manufactured goods.
What is glass, ships and purple dye?
This writing form, of which cuneiform and hieroglyphs is an example, use images to represent words.
What is logograms?
The earliest rulers of Mesopotamia were priests ruling in the name of their gods, an example of this kind of government.
What is a theocracy?
This was the Egyptian Pharaoh who first united Upper and Lower Egypt, beginning the Old Kingdom.
Who is Narmer/Menes?
King Solomon was perhaps best known for his construction of this important religious structure.
What is the Temple of Jerusalem/the Temple of Solomon?
This Many-Titled King began the Persian Empire by quickly expanding and conquering the Medians, Lydians and Babylonians.
Who is King Cyrus II?
A nation which rules over other nations is often referred to as this type of kingdom.
What is an empire?
This empire, founded by Sargon I, is often regarded as the world's first empire.
What is the Akkadian Empire?
This little known Egyptian god became the primary god of Egypt, for a short time, thanks to the work of Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten.
Who is Aten?
This is the region which the Ancient Israelites refer to as the Promised Land, where the eventual Kingdom of Israel was established.
What is Canaan?
These were the major regions conquered by the emerging Persian Empire.
What are Egypt, Mesopotamia and Asia Minor?
A city which pays a more powerful city to avoid destruction would be said to be paying this.
What is tribute?