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Fertile Crescent
City-states & Sumer
Assyria & Babylonia
Phoenicians
Israelites & Judaism
100
The two rivers that are in the Fertile Crescent
What is the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers
100
a city that is also a separate, independent state
What is a city-state
100
an area of many territories and peoples that is controlled by one government
What is an empire?
100
The Phoenicians invented this
What is an alphabet
100
The father of the Israelites
Who is Abraham
200
The Greek word for the land between two rivers
What is Mesopotamia
200
belief in many gods
What is polytheism
200
the King who invented the first code of laws
Who is Hammurabi?
200
The Phoenicians became rich trading these for their purple dye
What are snails?
200
The promised land where God led the Israelites
What is Canaan?
300
Mesopotamia is located in this modern day country
What is Iraq
300
Sumerian temples where the gods lived and would come down
What is ziggurats
300
The empires of Assyria and Babylonia were known for this
What is being fierce warriors, conquest, etc.
300
The name of the large sea that the Phoenicians established trading posts on
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
300
the belief in one god
What is monotheism?
400
DAILY DOUBLE
Mesopotamia is known as this, because it is where civilization began... (3 words)
400
professional writers
What are scribes?
400
The King who rebuilt the empire of Babylonia after the Assyrians destroyed it
Who is Nebuchadnezzar?
400
markets where people could buy and trade goods
What are bazaars?
400
The Hebrew's sacred book
What is the Torah?
500
The legacy of Mesopotamia
What is writing, written laws
500
Sumerian form of writing
What is cuneiform?
500
The main idea behind Hammurabi's code of laws
What is "an eye for an eye"
500
The Phoenicians were known for this
What is being sea-faring people, masters of trade, etc.
500
Led the Israelites out of Egypt and slavery
Who is Moses?