What is city-state?
Who is Gilgamesh?
calendar based on the moon and stars, the wheel, a system of writing
Who is Moses?
What is the Persian Gulf?
What is Judaism, Christianity, and Islam?
What is Egypt?
What is the Torah?
What is famine and the hope of food?
Who is Abraham?
Open-ended: should include massive walls, a 100-foot-tall ziggurat, gridded streets, a sewer system, 'hanging gardens' see p 114 as reference
What is cuneiform?
open-ended: a lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily concerning a serious subject containing details of heroic deeds and events significant to a culture or nation
ten commandments
What is that they worship Him as the one God?
What is mud bricks?
What is Mesopotamia?
What is Sumer?
What is drought?
What is Sabbath?
open-ended (must be 3)
What is laws?
open ended: should include the floods brought silt and water for crops. They could come at the wrong time, destroying already planted crops, or they could come on too powerfully, costing lives and homes.
Open-ended: 'strong as an ox', all-knowing, a great builder, part god and part man, strongest and best fighter
What is Ziggurat?
What were the houses in Sumerian cities made of?
Large building with a temple on its peak.
Which present day country is NOT part of the region that was once known as the Fertile Crescent- Turkey, Egypt, Iraq, Iran?
Was wanted for murder and had to flee Egypt.
'The land between two rivers'
What drove the Hebrews out of their 'promise land' of Canaan and into Egypt?
The first Jews were the descendents of ___________, later called Israelites.
The Sumerians were the first to put their _______ into writing before any other society.
The Tigris and Euphrates River flow inton which body of water?
A self-governing city that also governs surrounding villages.
First five books of the Hebrew Bible, or the ______, comes from the word meaning 'to teach.'
long periods of dry weather
Early Sumerian mythical hero.
What made New Babylon magnificent?
Describe what an epic is.
What are three advantages to society of having a written code?
What did the Torah demand of the Hebrew people toward God?
What beliefs did the Sumerians hold about Gilgamesh. (name 2)
Name 2 inventions of the Sumerians
System of writing invented in Sumer.
_________ emerged as a region in the time that Menes unified Egypt.
The Hebrew Bible is still honored today by which three major religions?
How did Mesopotamia's floods benefit farmers? Bring misfortune?
What does the Bible say God gave Moses on Mount Sinai?
Weekly day of rest, prayer, and study.
