This landlocked body of water located between Israel and Jordan is the lowest point below sea level on Earth.
What is the Dead Sea?
100
This high mountain range is located between present day Iraq and Iran.
What are the Zagros Mountains?
100
This Israelite king and son of King David was known for his great wisdom, and for constructing the Great Temple in Jerusalem.
Who was King Solomon?
100
A group of states, regions, or countries ruled by one supreme leader.
What is an Empire?
100
The ruins of ancient Babylon are located just a few miles north of this present-day capital of Iraq.
What is Baghdad?
200
This river flows south through present day Iraq to the Persian Gulf, and forms the western boundary of ancient Mesopotamia.
What is the Euphrates River?
200
The Quattara Depression is a major feature of this 1500-mile wide area west of the Nile River?
What is the Libyan Desert?
200
He was the second king of Israel who built Jerusalem.
Who was King David?
200
A standardized set of rules or laws. Hammurabi had one.
What is a Code?
200
A storehouse or library of ancient clay tablets or scrolls, such as found by archaeologists in the ruins of Nineveh.
What is an Archive?
300
Term for a junction of two or more rivers.
What is a confluence?
300
This desert, named after an ancient kingdom south of Egypt, lies east of the southern portion of the Nile River and west of the Red Sea.
What is the Nubian Desert?
300
He is the Hebrew patriarch from whom all Jews trace their descent.
Who is Abraham?
300
A system of writing developed by ancient Sumerians
What is Cuneiform?
300
Much of the world's oil is shipped through this strategic waterway connecting the Persian Gulf to the Gulf of Oman in the Arabian Sea.
What are the Straits of Hormuz?
400
This river in southwestern Asia empties into the Dead Sea.
What is the Jordan River?
400
These mountains, located in Asia Minor, are the source of the Euphrates River.
What are the Taurus Mountains?
400
These ancient Mesopotamian people were known as great astronomers.
Who are the Chaldeans?
400
A binding agreement, such as the one between the Hebrews and their God.
What is a Covenant?
400
ISIS terrorists have captured and destroyed irreplaceable artifacts in the ancient ruins of Assur located along the northern shores of this important Mesopotamian river.
What is the Tigris River?
500
This almost-landlocked body of water is located north of the modern country of Turkey.
What is the Black Sea?
500
These mountains are north of the Red Sea along the eastern Mediterranean coast just north of Israel.
What are the Lebanon Mountains?
500
The first king of Ancient Chaldea and the new Babylonian Empire, conquered and enslaved the Israelites. He also built the legendary" hanging gardens".
Who was Nebuchadnezzar?
500
The law of God as revealed to Moses and recorded in the first 5 books of the Old Testament. Each hand-written copy is considered sacred by the Jews.
What is the Torah?
500
The name given to this region which stretches from the Eastern Mediterranean to modern-day Iran, reflects its importance to the development of agriculture and the birth of early civilization.