BIBLE
Israel often struggled with
Idolatry
The Nile River was important to Egypt because…
It flooded and fertilized farmland
The Indus Valley civilization developed in…
India
The Phoenicians were famous for… (name at least 2)
Seafaring people
Inventing one of the first alphabets
Creating super rare royal purple dye
The Peloponnesian War was mainly fought between
Sparta and Athens
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob
What is polytheism?
Worship of many gods
Which civilization built large pyramids in the America’s?
Maya’s
Assyrians were known for…
Siege warfare
Establishing a library
Having one of the largest empires of their time
Name at least 3 famous Greek philosophers
Socrates
Plato
Aristotle
Thales
Pythagoras
Name at least 4 judges from the Bible
Mesopotamia was located between
The Euphrates River and the Tigris River.
Bronze Age Greeks depended heavily on
Sea trade
Nebuchadnezzar ruled…
Babylon
Alexander the Great came from…
Macedonia
Solomon was know for…
Wisdom
Building the Temple
What were some laws Hammurabi wrote?
Eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth
Innocent until proven guilty
Punishment and fines
A Greek city state was called a…
Polis
The Persian king who allowed the Jews to return home was…
Cyrus
According to legend, Rome was founded by who + where?
Romulus and Remus along the Tiber River
Early Christians were often persecuted because…
They refused to worship Roman gods and emperors
Hieroglyphics and Cuneiform
Sparta valued…
The Persian wars were fought between…
Persia and Greece
Name at least two reasons the Roman Empire declined
Invasion by barbarian tribes (Attila the Hun)
Economic and political instability
Rise of the Eastern Empire
Government corruption
Loss of traditional Roman values and rise of Christianity