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Religion
Groups of People
Mesopotamia
Egypt
Other
100
Means "many gods"
What is polytheistic
100
First empire in world history.
What is Akkadian
100
Mesopotamia means "the land between the _______"
What is rivers
100
What river is important to the creation and survival of the Egyptian empires?
What is the Nile
100
Enabled the emergence of civilization
What is agriculture or surplus food
200
Judaism believes there is only one god, which makes it this type of religion
What is monotheistic
200
Invented cuneiform.
What is Sumerians
200
Mesopotamia is a part of the region also known as the "Fertile _______"
What is crescent
200
Type of writing the Egyptians used
What is hieroglyphics
200
Means "dominated by men"
What is patriarchal
300
Religion of the Isrealites
What is Judaism
300
What were the first group of people to use iron?
What is Hittites
300
What two rivers create Mesopotamia?
What are the Tigris & Euphrates
300
Three major periods of Egyptian history
What is Old, Middle & New Kingdom
300
A large state that controls many peoples or territories
What is an empire
400
What Egyptian god took power by killing his brother and cutting him up into 14 pieces?
What is Set
400
Traded cedar lumber and purple dye.
What is Phoenicians
400
"wedge-shaped" writing
What is cuneiform
400
The Nile River flows into what sea?
What is the Mediterranean
400
Upper Egypt is (north/south) of Lower Egypt?
What is south
500
What god's eyes are the sun and the moon?
What is Horus
500
Israel was at the height of its power under King _______.
What is Solomon
500
Collection of 282 laws. The first of its kind.
What is Code of Hammurabi
500
What sea border Egypt to the east?
What is the Red Sea
500
The Hittites are from what present day country?
What is Turkey