Terms
Fertile Crescent Empires
Egypt
Mesopotamia
Israelites
100
What is the name of an Egyptian Ruler?
pharaoh
100
Who invented the alphabet?
the Phoenicians
100
What river flooded and deposited silt, which made the land rich for farming
The Nile River
100
Name the two rivers in Mesopotamia
Tigris and Euphrates
100

Who founded the Kingdom of Israel?

David
200
Extra food
surplus
200
From what empire, in general, did the Kings pursue and policy of tolerance?
Persian
200

Name the Egyptian chief god

Amon-Re

200
What leader was the first to codify the laws that would govern his state?
Hammurabi
200

What were the Ten Commandments?

Laws given to Moses by God

300
wedge-shaped writing of the ancient Sumerians.
cuneiform
300

What civilization spread the technology of ironworking throughout the ancient world?

Hittites

300

Why is the Rosetta Stone so important?

gave historians a way to translate Egyptian hieroglyphics

300

Who ruled the city-states of Sumer?

warrior kings

300

Who is believed to have founded the Israelite nation?

Abraham

400
spread of ideas, customs, technologies from one people to another
cultural diffusion
400

What civilization is called the "carriers of civilization"?

Phoenicians

400
Name the Egyptian chief minister of the pharoah
vizier
400

What is the name for a Sumerian temple?

A ziggurat

400

How did the Israelites see themselves under God?

The "chosen people"

500
governor of a province in the Persian Empire
satrap
500
Which civilization created the first uniform system of coinage?
Persian
500

Name an achievement of the Old Kingdom

The Egyptians built the pyramids

500
What civilization controlled the Fertile Crescent after the fall of Sumer?
Babylonian
500
How did the beliefs of the Israelites differ from those of Mesopotamia?
monotheistic