The Beginning
Genesis means what?
"Beginning" or "Origin"
What was God's punishment for the height of evil man had reached?
The flood
What is the greatest turning point in world history
Christ's first coming
Who were the first in history known to have used the wheel?
Sumerians
Who was sold by his ten brothers into slavery?
Joseph
What is the study of the relics and ruins of ancient cultures?
Archaeology
What is the world's largest river?
Nile
First pharaoh of Egypt
Menes
What is the way of life for a group of people?
Culture
What is a large group of people who think of themselves as one and act in history as a unit?
Nation
What is the scattering of people over the earth?
Dispersion
What word is used to describe someone who worships many gods?
Polytheist
What is the term for rule by one city or people over other cities or peoples?
Empire
Who were the three Patriarchs?
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob
What are the strange writings of the ancient Egyptians?
Hieroglyphics
Process of preserving bodies?
Mummification
Families within which the right to be king passed from one member to the other
Dynasties
What is "putting man in place of or above God"?
Humanism
What was the name of the leader of Babel who built the Tower of Babel?
Nimrod
Who was the father of Israel
Abraham
What was the Sumerian's greatest accomplishment?
Writing
Who united all of Mesopotamia under his rule?
Hammurabi
Where did God lead Abraham to go?
Canaan
What were the three parts of Egyptian History?
Old Kingdom, Middle Kingdom, and New Kingdom
Who did God use to deliver the nation of Israel from slavery in Egypt?
Moses
Tribute
Man's shared characteristics with God permit what?
Fellowship with Him
What did God establish to teach the sanctity of human life?
Capital Punishment
What does AD and BC mean?
Anno Domini - In the Year of our Lord
Before Christ
What is the name of the wedge-shaped writing?
Cuneiform
The leader of the Babylonian Empire is best known for what?
Who was chief assistant to an Egyptian king?
Joseph
Who translated the Rosetta Stone?
Jean Francis Champollion
What was the Nile's greatest gift?
Fertile Soil
What is the most important part of a culture?
How people relate to God
Babel's dominion collapsed without the bond of common ________?
Language
Tigris
Euphrates
Mesopotamia
Euphrates - To make fruitful
Mesopotamia - Land between the rivers
The Sumerian number system uses what number as a base number?
60
What is an organized group of people appointed by a ruler to help him govern?
Bureaucracy
What location was known as the center of the ancient world?
Canaan
Which historian wrote about his impressions of ancient Egypt?
Under which pharaoh did the Egyptian empire reach its greatest extent?
Thutmose III
What are man's three special characteristics that he shares with God?
1. Language and Thought
2. Awareness of the difference between right and wrong
3. Freedom to make choices
Where did the survivors of the Flood and their descendants gradually migrate to?
Plain of Shinar or Sumer
When and from where was Abraham called to go to a promised land?
2000 BC and from Ur
The Sumerians made men into gods, what is the term for this?
Humanist
What is the term for making the laws known?
Promulgation
What is a nation or people living in its own land with its own government?
Nation-state
Which of Ham's sons settled Egypt?
Mizraim
Egypt was one giant _________ (government style)
Bureaucracy
Who was the female pharaoh?
Hatshephut