Origins of Civilization
This event in world history is notable for the domestication of plants and animals and the development of agriculture for the first time.
What is the Neolithic Revolution?
He founded the world's first known empire.
Who is Sargon?
This man founded the Jewish religion c. 2000 BCE.
Who is Abraham?
These Muslim leaders were the successors of Muhammed.
What are caliphs?
After World War 1, much of Southwest Asia was divided by European nations into governing jurisdictions called this.
What is a mandate?
This allows for complex societies to form.
What is a food surplus?
This law code included laws like "an eye for an eye" and influenced many later law codes, including our own.
What is the Code of Hammurabi OR Hammurabi's Code?
This sacred text contains history, poetry, letters, and gospel among other things.
What is the Christian Bible?
This series of military campaigns sought to regain control of the Holy Land and establish Christian kingdoms there.
What are The Crusades?
This plan led to continued conflict over the division of lands within what is now Israel.
What is the United Nations' two-state solution OR the Palestine Mandate?
This earliest known civilization was centered in Mesopotamia in the Fertile Crescent.
What is Sumer?
This ancient empire conquered the northern kingdom of Israel in 722 BCE.
What is Assyria?
This religion began with the angel Gabriel allegedly delivering a message to its founder in a cave.
What is Islam?
This allowed Islam to spread rapidly through the ancient world within a short time after Muhammed's death.
What are devoted, skilled warriors; relative religious tolerance of non-Muslims; and weak empires on the borders of Muslim lands?
In 1991, Iraq invaded Kuwait, setting off this conflict.
What is the Persian Gulf War?
This earliest known writing system, literally translated as 'wedge-shaped', was adapted and used by many cultures and civilizations. It is also what The Epic of Gilgamesh was originally written in.
What is cuneiform?
This king of Israel built the First Temple.
Who is Solomon?
This principle is at the core of Jewish teachings.
What is ethical monotheism?
Disagreement over who should succeed Muhammed, a family member or a close associate, led to this.
What is the creation of separate, competing groups of Muslims, including Sunnis and Shi'ites?
This is why many Arabs and Jews were dissatisfied with European mandates.
What is the European promise of Arab and Jewish self-determination/self-rule?
This area of Southwest Asia gets its name from the arc of good soil stretching across the region.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
The letters used to form the English language can be traced back to this ancient civilization.
Who are the Phoenicians?
These, taught by Muhammed and recorded in the Qur'an, guide Muslim life.
What are the Five Pillars of Islam?
This was the ultimate result of The Crusades.
What is a failure to hold the Holy Land under Christian rule and lasting hatred and distrust among Christians, Muslims, and Jews?
Who is the Shah?