Israelites
He is King David's son.
Who is King Solomon?
THE BELIEF IN MANY GODS.
WHAT IS POLYTHEISM?
A professional writer.
What is a scribe?
Mesopotamia lies between two rivers
What are the Tigers and Euphrates rivers?
This empire developed a bureaucracy or a complex structure of government offices to rule their giant empire.
What is the Persian Empire?
He delivered Jews out of Egypt.
Who is Moses?
THE BELIEF IN ONE GOD.
WHAT IS MONOTHEISM?
Scribes combined symbols to make groups of wedges and lines known as...
What is Cuneiform?
The word Mesopotamia comes from Greek words that mean.
What is "between the rivers"?
The New Babylon was ruled and rebuilt the city of Babylon by this King.
Who is King Nebuchadnezzar II?
The Israelite's sacred text.
What is the Torah?
A legend that explains people's beliefs.
WHAT ARE MYTHS?
They invented writing and used shapes clay pieces as tokens or symbols.
What were the Sumerians?
A city that is also a separate, independent state
What are city-state?
This civilization used cedar wood to make ships.
What are the Phoenicians?
God told him to leave Mesopotamia and settle elsewhere.
Who is Abraham?
Pyramids made of terraces, one on top of another, linked by ramps and stairs.
What are Ziggurats?
Assyria's capital became a city of great learning.
What is Nineveh?
A region in Southwest Asia, site of the first civilizations
What is the Fertile Crescent?
They decided the best method of defense was to attack.
Who are the Assyrians?
It is a time when there is so little food that many people starve.
What is famine?
A religion that developed in ancient Persia.
What is Zoroastrianism?
Scribes shaped the soft, wet clay into smooth, flat surfaces.
What are tablets?
Abraham led the Israelites from Mesopotamia to settle in the land of
What is Canaan?
Tyre was the major city in the region of
What is Phoenicia?