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Religion
Flood Stories
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Ancient Egypt
Religion Continued
100
The idea that more than one god exists.
What is Polytheism?
100
This character was warned by the same god who destroyed the EARTH.
Who was Noah?
100
The Capital city of Iraq.
What is Bagdad?
100
These huge triangular structures housed dead pharaohs.
What are Pyramids?
100
This religion's main prophet is Mohammed.
What is Islam?
200
The Idea that only one god exists.
What is Monotheism?
200
The main character in Tablet XI of The Epic of Gilgamesh was warned by the ocean god Ea.
Who was Uta- Napishti?
200
A natural barrier that protected Egypt form invasion at least for a while.
What is the Sahara?
200
Egypt had this type of writing in the old days.
What are hieroglyphics?
200
Who was known as the father of Judaism?
Who is Abraham?
300
This is the oldest of the monotheistic religions we've learned about.
What is Judaism?
300
This symbol god (Jehovah) sent to Noah to let him know that the world would not be flooded again.
What is a Rainbow?
300
The Tigris and Euphrates are rivers in an area once called________.
What is Mesopotamia or The Fertile Crescent?
300
Similar to today's paper the Egyptians used this type of material for writing on.
What is Papyrus?
300
The Hajj or pilgrimage is apart of this Islamic tradition.
What is the Five Pillars?
400
This was the god of vegetation in ancient Egypt.
What is Osiris?
400
The god of storms in the Epic of Gilgamesh.
Who is Adad?
400
The Persian Gulf is know to have this natural resource.
What is oil?
400
The process of preparing the dead for a good afterlife.
What is mummification?
400
These religions started in Southwest Asia.
What is Christianity, Islam, Judaism?
500
The chronological order of monotheistic religions from first to last.
What is Judaism, Christianity, Islam?
500
As opposed to the rainbow in the Old Testament flood story what happened to Uta- Napishti after he survives the flood in the Epic of Gilgamesh.
What was banishment and immortality?
500
Which country was formed after WWII in an area of Palestine?
What is Israel?
500
This Stone cracked the code of the ancient hieroglyphics.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
500
These two religions cannot have pork.
What is Islam and Judaism?