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Babylonia Empire
Babylonia and Assyria
Mediterranean Civilizations
Phoenicians and Israelites
Fair game
100
The capitol of Babylonia.
What is Babylon?
100
The kingdom that was known for its vicious warriors.
What is Assyria?
100
A set of symbols that represent the sounds of a language.
What is an alphabet?
100
This person led the Israelites to develop a belief in one god.
Who is Abraham?
100
Bazaars in Phoenicia had food from many places. This is an example of some of the food.
What are figs, honey, olives, and/or spices?
200
The two rivers that run through Mesopotamia.
What are the Euphrates and Tigris rivers?
200
The Assyrian capital of Nineveh had a remarkable one of these, where they kept thousands of clay tablets.
What is a library?
200
To force someone to leave a place or live in another country.
What is to exile?
200
These people were a great sea power.
Who are the Phoenicians?
200
The trading by the Phoenicians happened around this sea.
What is the Mediterranean?
300
King Hammurabi is famous for this, an organized list of laws that defined punishments for his subjects.
What is a code?
300
This king rebuilt the city of Babylon that the Assyrians had destroyed.
Who is King Nebuchadnezzar?
300
This color cloth was valued very highly by the wealthy people around the Mediterranean.
What is purple?
300
Another word for the Hebrew Bible.
What is the Torah?
300
The Israelites settled in the hills around this river valley.
What is the Jordan River valley?
400
The king that created the Babylonian Empire by uniting the cities of Sumer.
Who is King Hammurabi?
400
The palace that King Nebuchadnezzar built was known for these. They hung from several terraces that rose high above the city.
What are the hanging gardens?
400
The belief in one god.
What is monotheism?
400
This person led his people out of Egypt, which is called the Exodus.
Who is Moses?
400
Because of a famine, the Israelites fled to this region, where they lived for a few hundred years.
What is Egypt?
500
The Babylonians created a system of these that made travel easier between the cities and towns.
What are roads?
500
The residents of the new Babylonian Empire learned to look to these in order to measure the length of the year and understand astrology.
What are stars?
500
Tyre was the major city in this region, which had trade routes all through the Mediterranean sea.
What is Phoenicia?
500
A time when there is so little food that many people starve.
What is famine?
500
Between cuneiform and the Phoenician alphabet, this was the simpler and far easier to learn.
What is the Phoenician alphabet?