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Located between the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers this region's name means the land between two rivers.
What is Mesopotamia?
100
A set of symbols that represent the sounds of a language.
What is an alphabet?
100
She was a famous judge and leader.
Who is Deborah?
100
A traditional story often about gods or people's beliefs.
What is a myth?
100
More of a thing or product than is needed.
What is a surplus?
200
Mesopotamia is located in this modern day country.
What is Iraq?
200
An organized list of rules or laws.
What is a code?
200
First Israelite leader; made a covenant with God.
Who is Abraham?
200
The belief in more than one god.
What is polytheism?
200
Land or soil that contains substances plants need to grow.
What is fertile?
300
This very salty sea connects to the Jordan River.
What is the Dead Sea?
300
Israelite leader who according to the Bible received the Ten Commandments.
Who is Moses?
300
A religious leader that speaks to God.
What is a prophet.
300
These creatures used to make a rich puple dye, washed up on the shores of Tyre.
What are snails?
400
This Empire was more than just a bunch of warriors, besides giving us the battering ram they created a center of learning at Ninevah.
What is Assyria
400
According to the Bible, a code of law given to the Israelites by God.
What are the Ten Commandments
400
King of Babylon that codified law.
Who is Hammurabi?
400
The belief in one god.
What is monotheism?
400
City with its own traditions, government and laws.
What is a city-state?
500
A scattering of people who have a common background or beliefs.
What is a diaspora?
500
Early form of writing that used lines and wedges.
What is cuneiform?
500
This Assyrian King set out to "muzzle the mouths" of his enemies.
Who is Sargon?
500
Temple of the ancient Sumerians and Babylonians; roughly the shape of a pyramid.
What is a Ziggurat
500
A binding agreement.
What is a covenant.