Phoenicians
This animal produced a purple dye that was one of the two major resources that the Phoenicians had.
What is a snail?
This the name of the King of Babylon that united the cities of Sumer that also created a important set of laws.
Who was Hammurabi?
This is the main reason that the Assyrians were constantly attacked from all of its enemies.
What is being in an open area or being a wealthy powerful kingdom?
Mesopotamia means this because its between the Tigris and the Euphrates River.
What is the land between two rivers?
The Israelites were initially called this name before they eventually were given the name Israelites.
What is the Hebrews?
This sea was the center of the Phoenician Civilization that they constantly used for trading with other countries and continents.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
What is the name of a group of travelers who would stop and trade in the Babylonian area?
The Assyrians created this which helped them go through walls when they were attacking.
What is the battering ram?
Mesopotamia was apart of this land region with fertile land and a unique shape.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
This is the name of the Hebrew Bible.
What is the Torah?
This was formed as the replacement for the Sumerian cuneiform that was easier to communicate with.
What is the Phoenician Alphabet?
This is where travelers would stop and buy goods from all over the area in Babylon?
What is a bazaar?
This is the capital city of the Assyrians?
What is ninevah?
What is a city state?
This leader helped the Israelites practice monotheism and helped them them get out of Mesopotamia and into Canaan then Egypt due to a famine.
Who is Abraham?
This is the major city in the Phoenicians region that was the center of trade for them.
What is Tyre?
New Babylonia was formed by this King who was apart of the Chaldeans. He decorated the kingdoms with colorful walls that the Assyrians destroyed. He also destroyed the city of Jerusalem and exiled the people to Babylonia.
Who is Nebuchadnezzar?
One of these two groups ultimately conquered the Assyrian Empire.
Who is the Medes or the Chaldeans?
Professional writers in Mesopotamia were called this.
What is a scribe?
The departure of the Israelites from Egypt is called this which is also a name in the book of the Bible.
What is the Exodus?
This is the number of letters that the Phoenician alphabet had.
What is 22?
This is the empire that conquered New Babylonia in 539 BC. This ultimately ended Babylon for good.
Who was the Persians?
The Assyrian Empire once it was conquered became this Empire which was controlled by Nebuchadnezzar.
What is the New Babylonian Empire?
This was the site of the temple for the main god or goddesses that the Phoenicians worshipped.
What is the ziggurat?
This is the name of the person who got the Israelites out of Egypt, got the Ten Commandments, then back to Canaan when the famine was over.
Who is Moses?