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Geography
Sumerian Civilization
Babylonia
Assyrians
Hebrews, Phoenicians, and Lydians
100
This is how the early Mesopotamians got their food.
What is they were farmers.
100
The type of writing that was developed by the ancient Mesopotamians.
What is cuneiform?
100
The king of Babylon.
Who is Hammurabi?
100
The king of the Assyrian Empire.
Who is Ashurbanipal?
100
Abraham promised God that he would be...
What is monotheistic?
200
This is how Mesopotamians overcame challenges and made farming successful.
What is they used irrigation.
200
Why Mesopotamians switched from pictographs to wedge-shaped writing.
What is it was simpler?
200
What the king of Babylon was most known for.
What is his code of laws?
200
This is how the Assyrians were different from the Babylonians.
What is the Assyrians placed a higher value on war and conquest?
200
The kingdom formed by King David.
What is Israel?
300
This is what the word "Mesopotamia" means.
What is "a land between two rivers."
300
The types of things you would have seen built in a Sumerian civilization.
What are walls around the city-states, ziggurats, mud-brick houses
300
The overall purpose of the Code of Hammurabi.
What is to protect the people?
300
How Ashurbanipal was different from other kings.
What is his education and library?
300
The purpose of Solomon's Temple.
What is to serve as a place of worship and to house the Torah?
400
This is why farming was a challenge.
What is there was little rainfall?
400
How Sumerians linked religion and government.
What is divine-kingship (the right to rule was god-given)?
400
He made Babylon "great and glorious" through his building projects.
Who is Nebuchadnezzar II.
400
This is how Ashurbanipal was similar to other Assyrian kings.
What is he personally led his armies into battle?
400
What the Lydians contribute to society.
What are coins?
500
This is why people wanted to settle in southern Mesopotamia.
What is there was plenty of fresh water in the south?
500
Three things that Sumerians could do because of their writing system.
What are keep records of business dealings, exchange of goods, medical texts, literature, wise sayings?
500
The difference between the Ten Commandments and the Code of Hammurabi.
What is the Ten Commandments provided guidance for living and worshiping God. Other codes listed crimes and punishments.
500
The capital city where Ashurbanipal built his library.
What is Nineveh?
500
The two things the Phoenicians were known for.
What are the alphabet and trade?