Ancient Empires
What empire built palaces on the Island of Crete?
Who were the Minoans
People who lived in tents moving from place to place and herding animals were called?
What are pastoral nomads?
What did one have to travel around to go from Babylon to Israel?
What is a large desert?
Egyptians used to prepare the bodies of important people for the afterlife through what process?
What is mummification?
Abraham, that father os the Israelites, left what Sumerian city when he was called out by God?
What is Ur?
What was the first Great City after the flood in what is now Iraq?
What is Babylon?
If a religion or group of people believe in only one God they are known as?
What is monotheistic?
What body of water separates Africa from Saudi Arabia and was crossed by the Israelites when they left Egypt?
What is the Red Sea?
Egyptians were the first culture to create a kind of paper, what was it made from?
What is papyrus?
Approximately How many Israelites left Egypt with Moses?
What is 2.5 million
What City was Abraham called out of before God lead him to the land of Canaan?
What is Ur
What large salty body of water is below sea level and does not empty into the ocean?
What the Dead Sea?
From which direction did the children of Israel enter the promised land after wantering in the wilderness?
What is from east to west crossing the Jordan river?
What were the pyramids the ancient Egyptians built used for?
What is to make tombs for their kings?
The Cannanites were descendants of which son of Noah?
Who is Ham?
What is the term for the sacred writing used by priests in Egyptian and Mayan cultures that used pictures and abstract forms?
What are Hieroglyphics?
What is the longest river in the world and it flows from south to north?
What is the Nile river
why was the land of Goshen fertile?
What is because of the Nile river delta?
What area of land was given to the Israelites by Pharaoh and Joseph?
What is the land of Goshen
When Moses fled Egypt what land did he flee to?
What is Midian
What was the fanous book (scroll) that explained the afterlife and how to get to the fields of reeds where you could be a happy farmer for the rest of your life?
What is the "Book of the Dead"
What are the two rivers in Iraq that were mentioned in the book of Genesis as coming out of the garden of Eden?
What are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
If you wanted to travel from Israel to Egypt which direction would you go?
What is South, or Southwest?
What was the first plague that God sent upon Egypt?
What is turning the nile river into blood?
What was the first thing God asked Moses to do in the encounter by the burning bush?
What is take of his shoes?