What were the names of the two rivers nicknamed the rivers of life and death?
Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.
100
What are the four Fertile Crescent Empires?
Babylonia, New Babylonia, Assyria, Persia.
100
What is the term used for an organized list of laws and rules?
Code
100
What alphabet has only 22 symbols or letters?
The Phoenician Alphabet.
200
What is the written language that contains 1,000 wedged-shaped symbols and was used in Sumer?
Cuneiform
200
What weather occurrence in the spring caused top soil to rush down from the mountains and flood the land?
Melting Snow
200
What Fertile Crescent Empire was known for inventing the battering ram?
Assyria.
200
What is the old saying that Hammurabi's Code is based on?
An Eye for an Eye.
200
This text was the Israelite's sacred text?
The Torah
300
What is the term used when there is little food and causes people to starve?
Famine
300
What material from the rivers was used to make stylists and even boats?
Reeds
300
This empire was known for their ability to trade, their religion Zoroastrianism?
Persia
300
How many laws or codes can be found in Hammurabi's code?
282
300
What were the set of laws or codes given to the Israelites that were believed to be handed down from god through Moses?
The Ten Commandments.
400
What is the term for the belief in many gods?
Polytheism
400
For what reasons were the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers referred to as the Rivers of Death?
The floods did not always happen at the same time each year. Racing down without warning, they swept away people, animals, crops, and houses.
400
Under the rule of the Chaldean's this empire rose again and became the center of science, mathematics, and astronomy?
New Babylonia
400
Within Hammurabi's Codes what were the differences between punishments on people from lower level of society and people from a higher level of society?
People from lower societies had harder punishments compared to higher society individuals.
400
This empire was known for their sailing skills and sea trading abilities?
Phoenicia.
500
What is the term for a group of people traveling from one place to another?
Caravan
500
During good years of life producing floods what did the rivers supply the Mesopotamian people with?
The rivers supplied fish, clay, reeds, fertile soil, and crops.
500
This city was the center of Babylonia, and encouraged vast trading?
Babylon
500
What would be the punishment if a slave ran from their owner?
The slave would lose an ear.
500
What is the term used to describe the act of forcing a group of people out of their homeland or country?