Ch.1-3

Question 1

Ashurbanipal

Answer 1

The Assyrian king who built the worlds first library

Question 2

Astrology

Answer 2

The false beliefs that heavenly bodies influence affairs of men

Question 3

Byzantium

Answer 3

The capital of the east Roman Empire

Question 4

Cuneiform

Answer 4

Sumerian writing

Question 5

Cyrus

Answer 5

He conquered medes an established the Persian empire

Question 6

Decalogue

Answer 6

Another name for the 10 commandments

Question 7

Epic of Gilgamesh

Answer 7

Worlds oldest work of literature outside the Bible

Question 8

Hammurabi

Answer 8

He established the old Babylonian empire

Question 8

Henry Martyn

Question 9

Humanism

Answer 9

Human worship, making man into a god

Question 10

Ideograms

Answer 10

Symbols used to express ideas

Question 11

Mesopotamia

Answer 11

word that means “between the rivers”

Question 12

Mohammed

Answer 12

He founded the muslim religion

Question 13

Nabopolassar

Answer 13

He began the Neo-Babylonian empire

Question 14

Nebuchadnezzar

Answer 14

He destroyed Jerusalem and carried away the inhabitants

Question 15

Nimrod

Answer 15

He led the building of the Tower of Babel

Question 16

Patriarches

Answer 16

The founding father of Israel

Question 17

Peleg

Answer 17

The earth was divided in the days of this man his name means divided

Question 18

Postdiluvian

Answer 18

After the flood

Question 19

Samuel Zwemmer

Answer 19

The apostle to islam

Question 20

Sargon

Answer 20

The Akkadian ruler conquered Sumer

Question 21

Shiner

Answer 21

The biblical name for Sumer

Question 22

Sinai Script

Answer 22

Considered the first true Alphabet

Question 23

Theocracy

Answer 23

A government ruled by God

Question 24

Ur-Nammu

Answer 24

He developed the worlds most ancient law code

Question 25

Xerxes

Answer 25

He is called Ahasuerus in the Bible

Question 26

Ziggurats

Answer 26

Huge temples built by the ancient Sumerians

Question 27

When did civil government begin

Answer 27

After the deluge

Question 28

Greatest achievement of the Old Babylonian Empire

Answer 28

The realm of government or law

Question 29

King who expanded Israel’s boundaries and moved capital to Jerusalem

Answer 29

King David

Question 30

Persian ruler called by God “my Shepard” and “my anointed’’

Answer 30

Cyrus

Question 31

Worlds first civilization

Answer 31

Developed by the Sumerians

Question 32

First civilization to use iron extensively

Answer 32

Hitties

Question 33

Describe the development of writing

Answer 33

Semites took Egyptian hiroglyphics and called them by semitic names, assigning sounds to the characters, Phoenicians developed 22 constant alphabet

Question 34

Why writing is so important to civilization

Answer 34

It gave us the Bible

Question 35

Civilization that established the first postal system

Answer 35

Persians

Question 36

What country served as the main highway of the ancient world

Answer 36

Canaan

Question 37

Focal point of all history

Answer 37

Advent of Christ

Question 38

What Sumerians wrote on

Answer 38

Clay

Question 39

Fall of what empire marked the end of the Ancient period of history

Answer 39

Western Roman Empire

Question 40

The foundational civil ordinance

Answer 40

Capital punishment

Question 41

What sea trading people helped transmit the alphabet whatever they went

Answer 41

Phoenicians

Question 42

Who conquered the southern Kingdom of Israel

Answer 42

Babylonians

Question 43

The three great patriarchs of Israel

Answer 43

Abraham, Issac, and Jacob

Question 44

Period of Hebrew language in which the Old Testament was written

Answer 44

Classical

Question 45

Two main river that make the Fertile Crescent

Answer 45

Tigris and Euphrates

Question 46

World greatest nation around 1000 BC

Answer 46

Israel