Geography +
The gift of the Nile.
What is Egypt?
Ancient & stringent set of laws with 'an eye for an eye and tooth for a tooth' concept.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
The commandments given from God to Moses for the people of Israel.
What are the Ten Commandments?
A ruling family.
What is a dynasty?
Ancient Egyptians wrote on this.
What is papyrus?
Middle Eastern country on the Mediterranean Sea regarded by Jews, Christians & Muslims as the biblical Holy Land.
What is Israel?
The spreading out and merging of cultures.
What is cultural diffusion?
The belief in one God.
What is monotheism?
A type of government based on religious authority.
What is a theocracy?
Early Egyptian form of writing.
What are Hieroglyphics?
The triangular area of marshland formed by deposits at the mouth of a river.
What is a Delta?
The Hebrew prophet that led the Israelites out of Egyptian captivity and delivered them the 10 Commandments.
Who is Moses?
The belief in many gods.
What is polytheism?
Magnificent monuments built as tombs for Egyptian pharaohs.
What is a pyramid?
The river that Ancient Egypt was built around.
What is the Nile river?
Ancient Mesopotamia.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
The Old Testament Patriarch regarded by the Jews as the founder of the Hebrew people.
Who is Abraham?
The holy book of Judaism.
What is the Torah?
The process of preserving a body which involves embalming, drying and wrapping the corpse.
What is mummification?
In what direction does the Nile river flow?
What is from south to north?
Historically, the Land between the Tigris & Euphrates rivers which is modern day Iraq.
What is Mesopotamia?
The king of Babylon in Mesopotamia known for his code of laws.
Who is Hammurabi?
The world's first monotheistic religion provided by the Jewish people of the Old Testament.
What is Judaism?
Egyptian god-kings.
What is a Pharaoh?
The statues that guarded Ancient Egyptian cities and pyramids.
What is a Sphinx?