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Miscellaneous
100
The land between two rivers.
What is Mesopotamia
100
monotheistic
What is the worship of one god?
100
Tigris and Euphrates
What are the names of the two rivers in Mesopotamia?
100
worshipping the Gods
What is a ziggurat used for?
100
surplus
What is the term that means you have more than what you need?
200
Prehistoric
What is the period of time before man wrote things down is called?
200
Abraham
Who did God promise land to according to the bible?
200
oldest layers are on the bottom and newest are on top.
What is trashcan archaeology?
200
Code of laws
What did King Hammurabi make for his people?
200
Hanging Gardens of Babylon
What did King Nebebuchadnezzar build for his homesick wife?
300
Mesopotamian temple
What is a ziggurat?
300
covenant
What was the agreement called between God and Abraham?
300
followed herds and gathered nuts and berries.
What does it mean to be a hunter-gatherer?
300
wheel, writing and irrigation
What are three Mesopotamian inventions?
300
cuneiform
What is the wedge-shaped writing the Sumerians invented called?
400
Polytheistic
What is believing in more than one God.
400
synagogue
What are the places called that the Jews build for worship and study?
400
farming
What allowed the Mesopotamians to stay in one place?
400
Gilgamesh
Who is the first novel in history about?
500
Empire
What is it called when a single ruler controls several kingdoms or territories, usually through powerful military force?
500
David
What Jewish king defeated a giant with a slingshot?
500
create civilizations
What were the Mesopotamians able to do because they stayed in one place?
500
irrigation
What is the system of canals or ditches that brings water from the rivers to the crops?