Geography
Known as "the Land Between Two Rivers"
What is Mesopotamia?
The river that Egypt was built around.
What is the Nile River?
When a person believes in many gods and goddesses.
What is polytheism?
The Jewish star is named after this King
Star of David
This geographical feature acted as a natural barrier that protected and isolated Egypt.
What is the Desert?
The direction the Nile flows.
What is North?
A staircase building in Mesopotamia that served a religious and political purpose.
What is a ziggurat?
The holy city for the Jews
Jerusalem
The Sumerians had to make this for protection as they had no natural barrier from invaders.
What are city walls?
The God of the Dead who weighs people's soul.
Who is Osiris?
What is the name for an Egyptian King
What is Pharoah
The very first King of the Israelites
Saul
Fertile soil deposits left behind after a flood
What is silt?
A code of law written in ancient Babylon.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
When ideas or products spread from one culture to another through conquest and trade
What is cultural diffusion?
The word for the spreading out of Jews and their culture
diaspora
What is irrigation?
The Egyptians and Mesopotamians have _____ in common.
acceptable: both are river valley civilizations OR both had polytheistic religions
This is the name for settling the body up for mummification
What is embalming
Three inventions of the ancient Mesopotamians that remain today
What is bronze, the wheel, the plow, 60 minutes, and a trade network that would eventually become the silk Road?
The "grandfather of Jews"
Abraham