land between two rivers
Where were the first known schools located?
What is Sumer
What was the capital of Babylonia?
What is Babylon
How long did King Hammurabi rule the Babylonian Empire?
1792 B.C. to 1750 B.C.
What two materials did Phoenicians make great trade from?
What is cedar and purple snails
What did God give Moses on Mount Sinai?
The 10 Commandments
What does the word Mesopotamia mean?
What is the land between two rivers
Who created the Babylonia empire?
Who is Hammurabi
Where the code/laws back then fair compared to now?
what is no.
What were the purple snails used for?
What is purple dye
When did the Jews get exiled from Judah?
586 B.C.
What were the two rivers were the source of life for the Mesopotamian people?
What is the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
Who defeated the Assyrians in 612 B.C.?
What is the Chaldeans and the Medes
How many laws did Hammurabia's code have?
What is 282
How many symbols did the Phoenician alphabet have?
What is 22
What two religions did Judaism have an influence on?
Islam and Christianity
What was the temple to the main gods or goddess in Sumer?
What is a Ziggurat.
What was the empire that ruled the entire Fertile Crescent?
What is the Babylonian empire.
What does the phrase "eye for an eye mean?"
What is, what someone does to you will be done back to them
Where did Abraham lead the Israelites?
What is Cannan
What does diaspora mean?
The scatering of a group of people
Who conquered Sumer in about 2300 B.C.?
What is Akkad
When did the new Babylonian empire fall?
what is 539 B.C.
When did writing first develop and where?
3100 B.C. and in Mesopotamia
When did the Assyrians exile the Israelites?
722 B.C.
Who were two main prophet sin the Bible?
Moses and Abraham