Mesopotamia
Peoples who started the first civilization in Mesopotamia
Who are the Sumerians?
King who ended the Babylonian Captivity (that's pretty great)
Leading Hebrew patriarch
Leader of Egyptian society
Who is the Pharaoh?
First Greek civilization
What is Minoa?
What is "the land between the rivers"?
Name for a province in the Persian Empire
What is a satrapy?
Event that laid the basis for the Mosaic covenant
What is the Exodus?
Where kings/leading nobles were buried
What are the Pyramids?
Period when Homer recorded the Iliad and Odyssey
Who are the Old-Babylonians?
King who built the royal road
Who is King Darius?
Region that became the home of the Israelites
What is Canaan?
System of writing in Egyptian society
What is hieroglyphics?
"Open-air" part of the Polis
What is the Agora?
People who ended the Assyrian Empire
Who are the Chaldeans (or Neo-Babylonians)?
Religion that expanded throughout the Persian Empire
What is Zoroastrianism?
Place where Abraham was born
Where is Ur?
The three periods of Egyptian history
What are the Old Kingdom, Middle Kingdom, and New Kingdom?
Innovation that helped the Greeks win the Battle of Salamis
What is the Trireme?
King whose library held copies of The Epic of Gilgamesh
Former allies of the Persians, who they eventually overthrew
Who are the Medes?
King who brought the Israelites into captivity in Babylon
Who is King Nebuchadnezzar II?
God who represented resurrection in Egyptian religion
Who is Osiris?
Lawgiver who reformed Spartan society and government
Who is Lycurgus?