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silt
What is fertile dirt left behind after the rivers flood?
100
Red Sea
What sea separates Mesopotamia from Africa?
100
Monotheism
What is the belief in one God?
100
Drought
What is lack of water?
100
22
What is the number of letters in the Phoenician alphabet?
200
Sumer
What was one of the civilizations of Mesopotamia?
200
Tigris
What is the northern most river in Mesopotamia?
200
Polytheism
What is the belief in many gods?
200
monarchy
What is a government headed by a king or queen?
200
Carthage
What was one of the important colonies started by the Phoenicians?
300
Asia
What is the continent on which Mesopotamia was found?
300
Mediterranean Sea
What is the body of water that borders Mesopotamia to the west?
300
Ziggurat
What is a temple where Mesopotamians worshipped?
300
Tavern keeper
What is one of the jobs available to women in Mesopotamia?
300
Milled edges
What is what the Lydians did to the edge of coins to keep people from shaving them?
400
Ur
What is the city in Sumer where Abraham was born?
400
Persian Gulf
What is the body of water that borders the Fertile Crescent to the southeast?
400
To explain the unexplainable.
Why did the people of Mesopotamia pray to many gods?
400
So all people would know the laws.
Why did Hammurabi publish his Code?
400
Lydia
What is the first country to use coined money?
500
Babylon
What was another Mesopotamian civilization?
500
tributary
What is a smaller river or stream that flows into a larger river?
500
She will marry his brother or other male relative.
What happens if a woman's future husband dies before the wedding?
500
282
How many laws did Hammurabi create?
500
Lebanon
What is the present day name of Phoenicia