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Geography
Sumer
Assyria & Babylon
Judaism
Odds n' Ends
100
The land between the rivers.
What is Mesopotamia?
100
The type of writing invented in Sumer.
What is cuneiform?
100
The king of Assyria who put 200 laws on a 6-foot pillar.
Who is Hammurabi?
100
The basic laws of the Jews.
What are the Ten Commandments?
100
The kingdom north of Sumer.
What is Assyria?
200
The method of bringing water to crops.
What is irrigation?
200
The king of Sumer, whose daughter was Enheduana.
Who is Sargon?
200
The civilization that destroyed Ninevah in 611 B.C.
What is Babylon?
200
The first five books of the Bible, sacred to Jews.
What is the Torah?
200
The belief in more than one god.
What is polytheism?
300
The two rivers of Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
300
The city-state where Sargon ruled.
What is Kish?
300
The later known name of Ashur.
What is Assyria?
300
A person who speaks messages from God.
What is a prophet?
300
A raised, arched structure built to carry water over long distances.
What is an aqueduct?
400
They hold back water and have gates that let water in and out.
What are levees?
400
The legendary hero of the Sumerians.
Who is Gilgamesh?
400
He wanted everyone to know the consequences of breaking the law.
Why did Hammurabi send copies of his law code all around his empire?
400
The city that David made as his capital.
What is Jerusalem?
400
The belief in one god.
What is monotheism?
500
The amount of rainfall each year in Mesopotamia.
What are a few sprinkles?
500
The number of symbols regularly used in cuneiform.
What is 500?
500
He made dams so that he could cause floods and make droughts.
How did Hammurabi control the rivers?
500
The place to which Moses fled after killing an Egyptian who was beating an Israelite slave?
What is Midian?
500
The scattering of Jews around the world.
What is the Diaspora?