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man's special characteristics
the belief that man was not created by god but instead evolved from animals
putting man in place of or above God
the death punishment
Noah's three sons
a descendant of Noah's son Ham that emerged as the leader of the "group"
the way of life of a group of people
God sent the flood to:
a large group of people that act in history as one
Genesis means ________
Adam means _______
Eve means ________
bragged openly about killing a man and a boy
the scattering of people over the earth
the father of the nation of Israel
Tigris means
Euphrates means
"land between the rivers"
conquered the Sumerians and adopted the Sumerians culture
first people in world history to use the wheel
the first people after the Flood to have used writing
wedge-shaped writing
used to write on tablets
king of ur
spokesman for false gods
the king used religion to:
thet king that conquered all of Mesopatamia in just 31 years
the god that gave Hammurabi the right to give laws
rules people follow while living together
making laws known
an organized group of people appointed by a ruler to help him govern
the number of years the patriarchs lived in canaan
chief god/ god of Babylon
the patriarchs of Israel
a nation or a people living in its own land with its own government
greek historian that discovered the ruins of Egypt
the strange writing of the ancient Egyptians
worked for 14 years until he had solved the riddle of the Rosetta Stone
the longest river in the world
the study of the relics and ruins of ancient cultures
on of the most fertile areas in the world
rapids in the south that prevented the Nile from being used to invade Egypt
united the two kingdoms and become the first pharaoh of all Egypt
the city Menes used as his capitol
families within which the right to be king passed from one member to another
the earliest tombs that the pharaohs built for themselves
the three most famous pyramids were built in _________
the largest pyramid
the Great Pyramid was built for ________
the second largest pyramid was built for_______
the mysterious structure that guards Pharaoh Khafre's tomb
the third pyramid at Giza was
built for ______
small temples
the only female pharaoh
under __________ the Egyptian Empire reached its greatest extent
the small divisions of Upper and Lower Egypt
the Pharaoh's chief assistant
kept the written record of Egypt
the kingdom that ended with a civil war
the kingdom that ended with a foreign invasion
the foreign invaders that were the ending of the Middle Kingdom
the secret weapon that the Hyskos had that Egypt started to use
the Biblical name for Sumer
the leaders of Israel during its first 300 years in Canaan
the reason Israel wanted a human king
the king God chose to be king after Saul
the king that led Israel to the peak of its greatness as a nation-state
David's son
the hope for Israel and all mankind
the number of judges (not including Samuel)
God used the ________ to punish Israel
the Assyrian king that deported the ten tribes of the Northern Kingdom of Israel
the last great Assyrian king that collected a library of about 100,000 cuneiform clay tablets
the Assyrian king that boasted that the God of Judah could do no better that the gods of the peoples he had already conquered
the three armies that conquered the Assyrians
the king that formed an alliance with the Medes and the Scythians
the Chaldean Empire
the king that destroyed Jerusalem and carried the inhabitants of Judah away
the drive to build a world empire began during the 700s B.C. under ____________
city-state
a hilltop fortress and a seat pf government and religion
market place
the first recorded date in Greek history
