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the worship of man
What is humanism?
100
The first Post-diluvian civilization.
What is Sumer?
100
Who is the builder of a world's first empire?
Who is Nimrod
100
Sumer's greatest contribution to history.
What is the art of writing?
100
The type of writing the Sumerians used.
What is cuneiform?
200
Oldest literary work next to the Bible
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh
200
A fierce warrior people who at the height of their power dominated the entire Middle East.
What is Assyria
200
The King who established the Old Babylonian empire; compiled a law code of nearly 300 laws.
Who is Hammurabi?
200
The greatest achievement of the Old Babylonian Empire
What is government and law?
200
The Sumerians agricultural techniques.
What is the wheel, dams, and canals for irrigation?
300
The use of authority and power to uphold what is right, lawful and just.
What is justice?
300
Civilization who prospered since they were tolerant to different religions.
What is Persia?
300
King of Persia who established the first postal system.
Who is Darius 1
300
Location of the world's first Great Library.
What is Nineveh?
300
Three key factors that contributes to varieties in species.
What is small population, rapidly changing environment, excessive inbreeding?
400
A large group of people who think of themselves as one and act in history as a single entity.
What is a nation?
400
Jews who advocated a Jewish national state.
What is zionists?
400
An Arab mystic from the city of Mecca, the founder of Islam
Who is Muhammad?
400
The two rivers of the Babylonian plain.
What is the Tigris and Euphrates?
400
What happened on May 14, 1948?
What is Israel's Declaration of Independence?
500
Sumerian temple-towers in which one terrace was built upon another, each a little smaller than the one below
What is a ziggurat?
500
An Indo-European people from Anatolia in Asia Minor who pondered Babylon around 1600BC
What is the Hittites?
500
King of the Medes and the Persians who conquered the Neo-Babylonian Empire; decreed in 536BC that the Jewish people be allowed to return to Jerusalem.
Who is Cyrus the Great?
500
Focal point of history
What is the first coming of Christ to earth?
500
Why is it important to study history?
What is "Each generation needs to know about people, events, and ideas of former generations in order to make wise decisions in the present."