Beginnings in the East Vocabulary

Question 0

Mesopotamia

Answer 0

region of modern Iraq; Greek name meaning “the land between two rivers”

Question 1

Babylonian

Answer 1

second great civilization of ancient Mesopotamia

Question 2

scribes

Answer 2

professional writers of the times

Question 3

cuneiform

Answer 3

system of wedge-shaped signs; an early system of writing

Question 4

Hammurabi

Answer 4

Babylonian king; famed legal code based on “an eye for an eye”

Question 5

monotheism

Answer 5

belief in a single God

Question 6

Sumerians

Answer 6

founders of Mesopotamian civilization; developed system of numeration based on sixty

Question 7

Amon - Re

Answer 7

Egyptian sun-god

Question 8

ziggurat

Answer 8

a 6 or 7-story tower; belief centered on gods using as ladder for descent from heaven

Question 9

Egypt

Answer 9

“The Gift of the Nile”

Question 10

pharoahs

Answer 10

Egyptian rulers

Question 11

David

Answer 11

ruler of Hebrew kingdom of Israel…“this promised land”

Question 12

edubbas

Answer 12

Mesopotamia’s first schools

Question 13

papyrus

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paper like writing material made from reeds that grew by the Nile

Question 14

Tigris and Euphrates

Answer 14

two important Rivera assisting ancient Mesopotamian empires

Question 15

Assyrians

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competed with Babylonians, yet recognized superiority of Babylonian and Sumerian culture; assembled ancient world’s first library

Question 16

hieroglyphics

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developed from a system based on pictures to one in which symbols could also represent sounds; symbols written in papyrus

Question 17

Solomon

Answer 17

David’s son