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| Question | Answer |
| man's special characteristics | language and thought, awareness of the difference of right and wrong, freedom to make choices |
| the belief that man was not created by god but instead evolved from animals | evolution |
| putting man in place of or above God | humanism |
| the death punishment | capitol punishment |
| Noah's three sons | Shem, Ham, and Japheth |
| a descendant of Noah's son Ham that emerged as the leader of the "group" | Nimrod |
| the way of life of a group of people | culture |
| God sent the flood to: | cleanse the land of sin |
| a large group of people that act in history as one | nation |
| Genesis means ________ | beginning, origin |
| Adam means _______ | man |
| Eve means ________ | mother of all |
| bragged openly about killing a man and a boy | Lamech |
| the scattering of people over the earth | dispersion |
| the father of the nation of Israel | Abraham |
| Tigris means | "arrow" |
| Euphrates means | "that makes fruitful" |
| "land between the rivers" | Mesopotamia |
| conquered the Sumerians and adopted the Sumerians culture | Sargon the Great |
| first people in world history to use the wheel | Sumerians |
| the first people after the Flood to have used writing | Sumerians |
| wedge-shaped writing | cuneiform |
| used to write on tablets | stylus |
| king of ur | Ur-nammu |
| spokesman for false gods | king of ur |
| the king used religion to: | get stuff he wanted |
| thet king that conquered all of Mesopatamia in just 31 years | Hammurabi |
| the god that gave Hammurabi the right to give laws | Shamash |
| rules people follow while living together | laws |
| making laws known | promulgation |
| an organized group of people appointed by a ruler to help him govern | bureaucracy |
| the number of years the patriarchs lived in canaan | 230 years |
| chief god/ god of Babylon | Marduk |
| the patriarchs of Israel | Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob |
| a nation or a people living in its own land with its own government | nation-state |
| greek historian that discovered the ruins of Egypt | Herodotus |
| the strange writing of the ancient Egyptians | hieroglyphics |
| worked for 14 years until he had solved the riddle of the Rosetta Stone | Jean Francis Champollion |
| the longest river in the world | Nile River |
| the study of the relics and ruins of ancient cultures | archaeology |
| on of the most fertile areas in the world | delta |
| rapids in the south that prevented the Nile from being used to invade Egypt | cataracts |
| united the two kingdoms and become the first pharaoh of all Egypt | Menes |
| the city Menes used as his capitol | Memphis |
| families within which the right to be king passed from one member to another | dynasty |
| the earliest tombs that the pharaohs built for themselves | mastabas |
| the three most famous pyramids were built in _________ | Giza |
| the largest pyramid | the Great Pyramid |
| the Great Pyramid was built for ________ | Pharaoh Khufu |
| the second largest pyramid was built for_______ | Pharaoh Khafre |
| the mysterious structure that guards Pharaoh Khafre's tomb | the Great Sphynx |
| the third pyramid at Giza was built for ______ | Pharaoh Menkaure |
| small temples | mortuary temples |
| the only female pharaoh | Hatshepsut |
| under __________ the Egyptian Empire reached its greatest extent | Thutmose III |
| the small divisions of Upper and Lower Egypt | gnomes |
| the Pharaoh's chief assistant | visier |
| kept the written record of Egypt | scribes |
| the kingdom that ended with a civil war | the Old Kingdom |
| the kingdom that ended with a foreign invasion | the Middle Kingdom |
| the foreign invaders that were the ending of the Middle Kingdom | Hyskos |
| the secret weapon that the Hyskos had that Egypt started to use | chariots |
| the Biblical name for Sumer | Shinar |
| the leaders of Israel during its first 300 years in Canaan | Judges |
| the reason Israel wanted a human king | they wanted to be like other nations |
| the king God chose to be king after Saul | David |
| the king that led Israel to the peak of its greatness as a nation-state | King David |
| David's son | Solomon |
| the hope for Israel and all mankind | the writing of the Bible |
| the number of judges (not including Samuel) | 13 |
| God used the ________ to punish Israel | Assyrians |
| the Assyrian king that deported the ten tribes of the Northern Kingdom of Israel | Shalmaneser V |
| the last great Assyrian king that collected a library of about 100,000 cuneiform clay tablets | Ashurbanipal |
| the Assyrian king that boasted that the God of Judah could do no better that the gods of the peoples he had already conquered | Sennacherib |
| the three armies that conquered the Assyrians | Chaldeans, Scythians, and Medes |
| the king that formed an alliance with the Medes and the Scythians | King Nabopolassar |
| the Chaldean Empire | Second of New Babylonian Empire |
| the king that destroyed Jerusalem and carried the inhabitants of Judah away | NEBUCHADNEZAR |
| the drive to build a world empire began during the 700s B.C. under ____________ | Tiglath-pilesar III |
| city-state | polis |
| a hilltop fortress and a seat pf government and religion | acropolis |
| market place | agora |
| the first recorded date in Greek history | 776 B.C |
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