2 pt 3 pt 4 pt 5 pt 1 pt 2 pt 3 pt 4 pt 5 pt 1 pt 2 pt 3 pt 4 pt 5 pt 1 pt 2 pt 3 pt 4 pt 5 pt 1 pt 2 pt 3 pt 4 pt 5 pt 1 pt People Places Things Words Misc.

Who invented writing and lived far better than prehistoric humans?

Sumerians

Who united the city-states of Mestopotomia?

Sargon I

Who was the first leader of the Hebrew people?

Abraham

What group of people believed in only one god?

Hebrews

What group of people gave us the alphabet?

Phoenicians

What is a city surrounded by smaller villages called?

city-state

What is the region between the Tigris and the Euphrates Rivers called?

Mesopotamia Fertile Crescent

Merchants came from China and India to do business in _________.

Babylon

What is the name of the four sided pyramids?

ziggurat

What is the name of the land in the Middle East shaped like a quarter moon?

Fertile Crescent

What is a gift offered to a god by killing or burning something?

sacrifice

What is the name of the book that Hebrews and Christians believe is holy?

bible

A __________ is a sharp, pointed writing tool.

stylus

Phoenician sailors used the _____ _____ to navigate their ships.

North Star

Sumerians made their homes out of ________.

brick

A time when no crops grow is a ___________.

famine

Hammurabi collected laws from many people and put them into a ________.

code

The Hebrews set a high standard of _________

morality

One type of religious leader is called a ________.

priest

A person who buys and sells is a ___________.

merchant

A rule or a way to act is a _______.

commandment

This word means having to do with the army or people who fight wars.

military

This word means to keep out water by using banks of earth.

dike(s)

What group of people did Hammurabi rule?

Babylonians

What word means to honor or praise god.

worship