Mighty Men of Old
This great Israelite King is known for both the slaying of Goliath and the writing of the Psalms.
Who is David?
The world's oldest civilization developed in this collection of city-states.
What is Sumer?
Jews believe in studying this holy book, which contains the Law of Moses.
What is the Torah?
This region's name means "the land between the rivers."
What is Mesopotamia?
The belief in many gods, including forces of nature and parts of life, like love and war.
What is Polytheism?
This ancient king founded a new Babylonian Empire and destroyed the kingdom of Judah, carrying away its holy relics to never be seen again.
Who is Nebuchadnezzar?
Thanks to near constant warfare between Mesopotamia and Egypt, this civilization was often defending itself against one or both of them.
Who are the Israelites?
Written in Cuneiform, this early Babylonian code of laws was carved into a 6 foot tall pillar.
Written in Cuneiform, this story tells of a legendary Sumerian king who tried to seek immortality.
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
The ancient Israelites often didn't get along with their neighbors; they saw themselves as bound to their God through this sacred promise.
What is a Covenant?
hundreds of years before Hammurabi, this Sumerian king wrote the oldest law code yet discovered.
Who is Ur-Nammu?
60 years after they were taken captive by the Babylonian Empire, the Jews were at last allowed to return to their homeland by this Persian emperor.
Who is Cyrus the Great?
After they were delivered from Egypt, the Israelites received these instructions from their God, which became the basis of their law.
What are the Ten Commandments?
The Phoenicians were the first to develop this kind of writing system, which uses symbols to represent sounds instead of words. The Greeks and the Romans later copied their homework.
What is the Alphabet?
This Jewish holiday commemorates the Israelites' deliverance from slavery in Egypt.
What is Passover?
This man, called by the one God, left his homeland in Ur to move to Canaan. He is considered the forefather of three major world religions.
Who is Abraham?
In order to communicate quickly and transport goods across the empire, Persian emperors had this built.
What is the Great Royal Road?
The Law of Moses prescribes this type of punishment for theft, unlike earlier, somewhat harsher law codes.
What is restitution/repayment?
In order to make trade easier, Ancient Sumerians invented this to replace the barter system.
What is currency/money?
King David and his son Solomon built this structure in Jerusalem, meant to be a place where God's spirit could stay.
What is the Temple of Solomon?
This successor of Cyrus the Great is known for building the Great Royal Road, and for throwing people into dens of lions.
Who is Darius the Great?
Who are the Phoenicians?
Several famous Cuneiform tablets contain lawsuits against a merchant named Ea-Nasir, who was accused of selling this metal, essential for making Bronze, in a low-quality form.
What is Copper?
This ancient unit of measurement is the distance between the elbow and the end of the hand.
What is a cubit?
The Persian empire was the home of this rare monotheistic religion, founded by the wise man Zoroaster.
What is Zoroastrianism?