What was the nickname of the Fertile Crescent?
Cradle of Civilization
Seal was the instrument used to_____ an article or document
Stamp
Since Noah's descendants disobeyed God,what did they build?
Tower of Babel
Did the Sumerians develop and use pottery?
False,they developed writing
Civilizations build alongside rivers for a water supply and for what?
Transportation
What civilization developed and used writing?
The Sumerians
What is the long,curved area of fertile land?
Fertile Crescent
The________________was the most common type of seal in Sumer
Cylinder seal
What is the picture of what the writer was trying to represent?
Pictograph
A ziggurat is a tall what?
Temple
Cuneiform was the_____-shaped writing of Sumer
Wedge
Belief that is based on fear and ignorance rather than truth
Superstition
Irrigation is the supply of what to land?
Water
Group of people who share a culture
Civilization
______were the Arab nomads who wandered from place to place
Bedouins
"Between the rivers" is the definition of what?
Mesopotamia
Where was Mesopotamia in the Fertile Crescent?
Between the rivers of Tigris and Euphrates.
Ancient civilization a long the Tigris and Euphrates rivers
Sumer
Tigris means __________
Arrow
Euphrates means__________
That which makes fruitful