The fertile Crescent of Iraq, originally gave rise to which civilization?
Sumer
100
Which geographic feature was common to Egypt, China, India, and Mesopotamia?
River Valleys
100
What is the name of the sun God?
Ra
100
The Hebrew Story of Noah is similar to which Sumerian story?
Epic of Gilgamesh
200
The name used for God in Hebrew
Adonai
200
Which civilization was forced to build walls to protect them from invasion?
Sumer
200
Powerful traders along the Mediterranean Sea who developed an alphabet and purple dye.
Phonecians
200
Mummification in Egypt reflects the concept of
A strong belief in the afterlife
200
What are the containers used in funeral rituals to preserve certain organs called?
Canopic jars
300
Jewish Holy Day of Atonement, Jewish New Year
Yom Kippur, Rosh Hashannah
300
This was a record of existing laws in Babylon
Code of Hammurabi
300
The kingdom of Israel was divided into what two kingdoms?
Judah and Israel
300
The force or spirit that the ancient Egyptians believed lived on after the body died?
Ka
300
The God of Abraham is the same God of what religions today?
Judaism, Christianity, Islam
400
What are religious dietary restrictions followed by those members of the Orthodox Jewish Faith
Kosher Laws
400
One similarity between both Egyptian and Sumerian civilization is that each developed a ________________. Sumer's was called ______________.
Writing System, Cuneiform
400
The theocracy of ancient Egypt shows a belief in the
Divine power of their Pharaoh
400
What is the name of the substance that the bodies are bathed in during mummification?
Natron
400
What was used to decode Hieroglyphics?
Rosetta Stone
500
Abraham was from which ancient city?
Ur
500
Give two examples from the Code of Hammurabi
If a man has destroyed the eye of a free man, his own eye shall be destroyed. If a man has knocked out the teeth of a man of the same rank, his own teeth shall be knocked out. If a carpenter builds a house and it collapses and kills a man's son then his own son shall be killed.
500
The Persians conquered a vast empire, all EXCEPT what particular land that they failed to take under control:
Greece
500
Which God is the Pharaoh believed to be while on earth, and which in death?
Horus then Osiris
500
Put these in the correct chronological order for the early middle east: Babylon, Sumer, Assyria, Persia, Babylon