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Geography of the Fertile Crescent
The Cities of Sumer
Babylon and Assyria
Birth of Judasim
Mystery
100
What did ancient Greeks call the region between the Tigris and the Euphrates?
Mesopotamia
100
Urk was a small city in what region?
Sumer
100
Ashur was later known as 'what' was a large kingdom north of Sumer?
Assyria
100
The early people's religion was known as 'what'?
Judaism
100
In what year did the first agriculture begin?
8500 B.C.
200
What animals did the environment support?
Cattle, Sheep, and Pigs
200
What is cuneiform?
Cuneiform is a clay tablet that people use to write on with reed pens.
200
Hammurabi built dams across what river to change the water flow to flood or dry out the cities below Babylon?
Euphrates
200
The bible tells of which two people?
Abraham and Sarah
200
What were the three largest city-states?
Ur, Uruk, and Erida
300
During spring and summer what were a threat to farmers?
Droughts
300
After years of studying cuneiform a student becomes a what?
A scribe
300
What was Babylon's empire named?
Babylonia
300
At which mountain did God give Moses the first five books of the Hebrew bible?
Mount Sinai
300
In what year did Babylon destroy Nineveh?
611 B.C.
400
What kind of trees did farmers grow?
Date, Pom, Pomegranate
400
What is a city-state?
A city-state is a self-governing city that governs nearby cities
400
What was Hammurabi's Law called?
Hammurabi
400
Most saw Moses as 'what' or a man who speaks to god?
Profet
400
In what year did the Assyrians conquer Israel's kingdom?
721 B.C.
500
Why did they value cattle?
Because they needed food and milk
500
At the center of each Sumerian city was a tall flattened mud-brick pyramid called a 'what'?
A ziggurat
500
Hammurabi constructed a raised water way called a 'what' that carried water from 30 miles away?
Aqueduct
500
The first five books of the Hebrew bible were called the 'what' coming from the language of Hebrew, from a word that means teach.
The Torah
500
In what year did Babylonian's armies destroy Jerusalem and Solomon's temple?
586 B.C.