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Another name for an excavation site.
What is a dig?
A system of authority to govern people and punish evil.
What is a government?
The first known civilization to develop and use writing.
Who are the Sumerians?
A body of land that is surrounded by water on three sides.
What is a peninsula?
A box that explains what the symbols, lines, and colors on a map represents.
What is a map key or legend?
The written record of what man has done with the time God has given him.
What is History?
A large group of people who think of themselves as one and are united under the same laws.
What is a nation?
Arab nomads who wander from place to place with their herds and belongings.
The city Sir Leonard Woolley excavated.
What is Ur?
The four main directions on a compass; North, South, East, and West.
What are the cardinal directions.
the term A.D. stands for
What is Anno Domino/In the Year of our Lord?
A government with a king or queen who rules alongside a more powerful prime minister or members of parliment.
What is a constitutional monarchy?
A belief based on fear and ignorance rather than truth.
What is superstition?
Some of the earliest known occupants of Asia Minor.
Who are the Hittites?
The earth's 0 degree ling of longitude.
What is the Prime Meridian?
A document that retells a first hand account.
What is a secondary source?
A group of people who share a culture, or way of life.
What is a civilization?
The Sumerian form of writing.
What is Cuneiform?
The southern part of Sumer.
What is Chaldea?
Two Phoenician cities that were famous for producing purple dye and brown glass.
What are Tyre and Sidon?
A document that uses a secondary source to retell or summarize information.
What is a tertiary source?
A government ruled by a chief.
What is a tribal government?
A tall Sumerian temple of worship.
What is a Ziggurat?
A large peninsula surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea, Agean Sea, and Black Sea.
What is Asia Minor?
The last king of Lydia.
Who is Croeseus?