An Arab mystic from the city of Mecca, the founder of Islam.
Who is Muhammad?
100
Define Theocracy?
What is "A nation ruled by god"?
100
Oldest literary work next to the Bible?
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
100
What does Mesopotamia mean?
What is "Between Two Rivers"?
100
Who built the first world empire?
Who is Nimrod?
200
King of the New Babylonian Empire, the Chaldeans, who destroyed Jerusalem in 586BC and carried away the remaining inhabitants of Judah to captivity.
Who is Nebuchadnezzar?
200
What does justice mean?
What is The use of authority and power to uphold what is right, lawful, and just?
200
What must a people group have to have mastery over in order for them to develop?
What is mastery over the food supply?
200
What was Abram’s home city?
What is Ur?
200
Who was the first Post-Diluvian Civilization?
What is Sumer?
300
Who were the builders of the first two great civilizations after the flood?
What is the Sumerians and Egyptians?
300
Define nation:
What is "A large group of people who think of themselves as one and act as one in history as a single entity"?
300
The first civilization developed a type of writing specifically called:
What is cuneiform?
300
What two major rivers were located in the Fertile Crescent?
What is the Euphrates and Tigris?
300
What is the Muslim’s holy book?
What is the Quran?
400
The king who established the Old Babylonian empire, and compiled a law code of nearly 300 laws.
Who is King Hammurabi?
400
What is "the spreading of cultural traits and patterns."
What is cultural diffusion?
400
What was Babylon’s greatest contribution to history?
What is law and government?
400
What natural resource has made the Middle East of crucial importance in the world today?
What is oil?
400
What key three factors have led to new varieties within a species?
What is changing environment, small population, and excessive inbreeding?
500
King of the Medes and the Persians who conquered the Neo-Babylonian Empire; decreed in 536BC that the Jewish people be allowed to return to Jerusalem.
Who is Cryus the Great?
500
Define civilization:
What is "Is when a people’s culture begins to include a specialized division of labor, a written language, a written code of laws, and organized form of civil government, and the development of the arts and sciences."?
500
What was the Sumerians specific agricultural techniques that they developed?
What is the the canal, dam, wheel?
500
A Sumerian temple-towers in which one terrace was built upon another, each a little smaller than the one below is called what?