The Origin of Kingship
Geologists theorize that the earth's climate began to warm, melting the massive ice caps from the last ice age, around what year?
What is 11,000 BC?
The common language of Sumeria, whose written script is called Cuneiform, in which the Great Flood story recalls the wrath of Enlil and the mercy of Ea.
What is Akkadian?
This city became the new center of kingship in ancient Mesopotamia due to its location at the nexus of numerous trade routes.
What is Kish?
This ruler embarked on his quest to unite Egypt around the year 3,200 BC.
Who is the Scorpion King?
What gap became a key passageway through the mountains separating the Indian subcontinent from Mesopotamia?
What is the Khyber Pass?
Civilization can be defined as man living in __________ pursuing __________.
What are community and higher truths?
According to the Sumerian King List, this man was the first king of Eridu, reigning for 30,000 years.
Who is Alulim?
One geological theory for the Great Flood concerns the breaching of what strait, connecting the Black Sea with the Mediterranean?
What is the Bosphorus?
This river, originally named Uruttu (Copper River), forms the western boundary of Mesopotamia.
What is the Euphrates?
This ancient kingdom along the Nile River was centered in Heliopolis (City of the Sun), and symbolized by the red crown of its rulers bearing a spitting cobra.
What is Deshret, or Lower Egypt?
This mountain range, whose name means "Abode of Snow", is home to the tallest peaks on earth and formed a formidable barrier to human migration during ancient times.
What are the Himalayas?
This river, originally named Idiglat (Swift River), forms the eastern boundary of Mesopotamia.
What is the Tigris?
This group of Near Eastern peoples immigrated to Sumeria beginning in the 40th century BC, bringing with them new farming techniques and skills like basketmaking and carpentry.
Who are the Semites?
This Babylonian flood account features a Noah-figure (whose name translates to "Super Wiseman") who takes pity on his subjects on the eve of the forthcoming disaster.
What is the Poem of Atrahasis?
This social trend, when large groups of countryfolk emigrated to the walled cities of the Fertile Crescent, became common practice around the year 3,200 BC.
What is "streaming-in"?
This ancient kingdom along the Nile River was centered in Hierakonpolis (City of Falcons), and symbolized by the vulture and the white cylindrical crown of its rulers.
What is Kemet, or Upper Egypt?
This river valley became the cradle of Civilization beyond the Hindu Kush mountains, sustaining the first agricultural settlements around 4,000-3,000 BC.
What is the Indus?
Located between snow-capped mountains and the arid Thar Desert, ancient villages spread along the upper tributaries of the Indus in this region, named for the five rivers that flow through it.
What is the Punjab?
The Cradle of Civilization, where kingship developed out of necessity to foster cooperation between settlers in a hostile environment.
What is Mesopotamia, or the Fertile Crescent?
These three themes are common throughout the Great Flood stories from around the world.
What are judgment, destruction, gluttony, sinfulness, a wise man warned, animals, and a select few saved?
These three materials were brought to Mesopotamia from the mountains to the northwest, indicating the extent of ancient trade routes and prevalence of commerce.
What are lapis lazuli (a precious stone), obsidian (for making blades), and wood (a construction material)?
Menes was the first king of Egypt in what historical record written by the priest, Manetho, in the 3rd century BC?
What is the Turin Canon?
Archaeological evidence, such as tools, suggests that southern India was likely settled by seafaring peoples from this land beyond the ocean.
What is Africa?
These are three examples of social institutions that uphold a civilization's pursuit of higher truths.
What are the Church, the Academy, the Market, the Arts, and the State?
This way of life eventually gave way to sedentary societies centered on agriculture, but still maintained an influential presence on the fringes of Civilization.
What is nomadic, or pastoral, society?
One theory of the Great Flood was proposed after archaeologists discovered a ten-foot layer of silt during their excavations of this ancient Mesopotamian city.
What is Ur?
This ancient Sumerian king resembles Abram, who longs for an heir, and finally "makes firm the land" for his son, signifying the beginning of hereditary rule.
Who is Etana?
Archaeologists discovered this artifact in the late 19th century which depicts the conquest of the Red Kingdom by the White King.
What is the Scorpion King macehead?
The fourth and current age of Indian cosmology, rife with greed and corruption, whose name translates to "Age of Iron."
What is Kali Yuga?
This prominent Hebrew prophet is the traditional author of Genesis, and thus the Judeo-Christian accounts of Creation and the Great Flood.
Who is Moses?