Sumer
The system of writing the Sumerians created.
What is cuneiform?
Hammurabi's code was known for an eye for an eye, and a _______ for a ________.
What is a tooth?
Soldiers who fight while riding horses.
What is cavalry?
The process the Phoenicians used to create purple dye.
What is using tiny sea snails?
The belief that there is only one God.
What is monotheism?
The belief in more than one god.
What is polytheism?
The name of the stone where Hammurabi's code was carved.
The leader of the Persian Empire.
The Phoenicians helped develop the modern day _________.
What is the alphabet?
The first 5 books of the Hebrew Bible.
What is the Torah?
The name of the two rivers that surrounded Mesopotamia.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
One of the main differences between Cyrus the Great and other rulers.
What is he let others keep their religion and culture?
The Phoenicians spread their culture through ____________.
What is trade?
The event that changed Pharaoh's mind and ultimately let the Israelites escape from Egypt.
What is the death of all first born sons in Egypt?
The technology that Sumerians used to bring water to their crops.
What is to irrigate?
The city where Hammurabi made his empire.
What is Babylon?
A permanent army of professional soldiers.
What is a standing army?
Each letter/symbol of the Phoenician alphabet stood for a single __________.
What is a sound?
The escape of the Israelites from Egypt.
What is the Exodus?
Sumer is known as the world's first ________________.
What is civilization?
This group of people had more severe consequences under Hammurabi's Code.
Zoroastrianism was different than other religions at the time because of this reason.
What is the belief in one God?
The body of water the Phoenicians sailed on.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
Name 3 of the 10 commandments.
What is
1. You shall have no other gods before me.
2. Don't bear false witness.
3. Remember the Sabbath day and keep it holy.
4. Honor your father and your mother.
5. Don't murder.
6. Don't commit adultery.
7. Don't steal.
8. Don't bear false witness against your neighbor.
9. Don't covet your neighbor's house.
10. Don't covet your neighbor's wife.