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100
The Egyptian civilization grew up around this river.
What is the Nile River?
100
This was a religious building in Mesopotamia.
What is a ziggurat?
100
These buildings were intended to be eternal tombs for dead pharaohs.
What are the pyramids?
100
These people were the first to make iron tools and weapons.
Who are the Hittites?
100
This man, who lived in Ur, made a covenant with God.
Who is Abraham?
200
The name of this area in the Fertile Crescent means “between the rivers”
What is Mesopotamia?
200
This invention made it easier for traders to travel and take cargo over a long distance.
What is the wheeled cart?
200
This is the ancient Egyptian religious text.
What is The Book of the Dead?
200
This Phoenician product, made from sea snails, became a symbol of wealth and royalty.
What is purple dye?
200
This is the holy book of Judaism.
What is the Torah?
300
These two rivers form the backbone of the Fertile Crescent.
What are the Tigris River and the Euphrates River?
300
These people were at the bottom of the Mesopotamian social hierarchy.
Who are slaves?
300
This geographic feature is a deposit of silt at the mouth of a river. (Hint: It is named after a Greek letter.)
What is a delta?
300
These warriors created a road system and were the first to use money rather than bartering.
Who are the Assyrians?
300
It is believed that this set of laws was given to Moses by God.
What are the Ten Commandments?
400
This river begins in the south and empties into the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Nile River?
400
This king is best known for enforcing one of the first written law codes in history.
Who is Hammurabi?
400
This period of ancient Egyptian history is also called the Pyramid Age.
What is the Old Kingdom?
400
Because the Phoenicians carried many ideas from place to place they were given this nickname.
What is “Carriers of Civilization”?
400
This characteristic made Judaism unique among ancient Mesopotamian religions.
What is monotheism?
500
This is what builds up along river banks after a flood.
What is silt?
500
Mesopotamians had this kind of government, in which the religious authority is also the government authority.
What is theocracy?
500
These people invaded and conquered Egypt using their superior military technology.
Who are the Hyksos?
500
This Persian religion teaches that there is a primary god representing good.
What is Zoroastrianism?
500
This word refers to those Jewish people who do not live in the homeland.
What is diaspora?