The two rivers that connect to create a lush landscape in Mesopotamia.
What is the Tigris and Euphrates?
100
The first type of official writing in Ancient Mesopotamia was called this.
What is cuneiform?
100
The sea by which ancient Phoenicia laid.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
100
Professional writers of the Ancient world.
What are scribes?
200
The ruler who created the Babylonian Empire.
What is Hammurabi?
200
The large, moon-shaped area that provided vegetation and farming to the ancient Mesopotamians. This area stretched from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf, encompassing all of Mesopotamia.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
200
This code established the first "law and order" for the Babylonians.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
200
Two major accomplishments of the Phoenicians.
What is sailing and the alphabet.
200
The belief in only one god.
What is monotheism?
300
A group of travelers moving from Sumer to the north and south.
What is a caravan?
300
Two cities that could be found in Ancient Mesopotamia.
What is Ur, Sumer, Kish, Erech, Babylon, Assur
300
The reason that Hammurabi's Code was so important.
What is because it was written down?
300
The group of people that were constantly persecuted from ancient world due to their religion.
What are the Israelites/Jews/Hebrews?
300
A time when there is so little food that many people starve.
What is a famine?
400
The two contributions that Assyria brought to the world.
What are record keeping and weaponry?
400
The first major city-state that developed from ancient Mesopotamia.
What is Sumer?
400
The material that scribes used when record keeping.
What is clay?
400
The king that built the first temple at Jerusalem.
Who is King Solomon?
400
To force people to live in another country.
What is exile?
500
The king that rose Babylon back up from its defeat by the Assyrians to create the New Babylonian Empire.
Who is Nebuchadnezzar II?
500
Three things that the Tigris and Eurphrates provided to the Mesopotamians.
What is food, water, and travel.
500
Small tablets were used for __________ and large tablets were used for _____________.
What is letters/postcards and references?
500
The difference between an Israelite and a person who practices Judaism?