Mesopotamia
The area around Mesopotamia with great land for growing crops is the ______ ________.
What is Fertile Crescent?
This invention allowed faster transportation of goods and we still use it today.
What is the wheel?
What two rivers bordered Mesopotamia?
Tigris & Euphrates
Who was the first king of Israel?
What is the capital of Tennessee?
Being able to do this allowed Mesopotamians to stop being nomads.
What is farming?
This invention allowed Sumerians to trade with other civilizations by water.
What is the sailboat?
Name two bodies of water near Mesopotamia that are not rivers.
Dead Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Persian Gulf, Red Sea, Caspian Sea
A psalm is a song or poem. A __________ is a saying that gives good advice for living.
East Tennessee
Middle Tennessee
West Tennessee
This is the place where Mesopotamians worshipped.
What is a ziggurat?
This is the first form of writing known to man.
What is Cuneiform?
The first city-state in Mesopotamia was ______.
What is Sumer?
This king of Israel made Jerusalem the capital of Israel.
Who is David?
Name three states that border Tennessee.
Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Missouri, Kentucky, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia
The belief in many gods is called ________.
What is polytheism?
This allowed farmers to till their land faster than by hand.
What is the plow?
The mountains to the east of the Fertile Crescent are the ______ Mountains.
This king of Israel was known as the wisest king and inherited the throne from his father.
Who is Solomon?
Who was the first Governor of Tennessee?
Who is John Sevier?
The Code of _________ was the first set of laws in a civilization.
What is Hammurabi?
The Sumerians created the idea of dividing time into this many parts.
What is 60?
This is the body of water that Moses crossed when the Israelites were escaping slavery.
What is the Red Sea?
Who attacked and defeated the Israelites in Canaan?
The Assyrians
This is the name of the path taken by the Cherokee when they were removed from their homes in North Carolina and Tennessee.
What is the Trail of Tears?