Chapter 2 Flashcards
What is the thread that we can follow through world history?
God’s plan for mankind provides a thread to follow through history?
How does the dispersion make studying history more difficult?
So many people in so many places cannot all be studied at the same time.
Where was Abraham living when God called him to the new land around 2000 B.C.
Ur
Explain the term Fertile Crescent? Name the two main rivers in this region?
Sumer was an area in the Middle East known as the Fertile Crescent because of it’s ability to grow crops and because the shape resembles a crescent. Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
What does B.C. stand for?
Before Christ
What does A.D. mean?
anno Domini
What event is the greatest turning point of history?
Christ’s coming
What does a c. before the date indicate?
Circa. Latin for approximately.
What was Sumerians’ greatest accomplishment?
Writing
What is dispersion?
Scattering.
What is the Middle East?
Part of the Africa, Asia, and Europe.
What is Shinar?
Region were the Tower of Babel was built.
What is Hamitic?
Descendants of Ham.
What is Sargon?
Greatest of Sumerian cities.
What is the importance of the wheel?
Few machines do not in some way depend up the wheel, and the Sumerians were the first people in world history known to have used it.
What is a stylus?
Used to write on clay tablets. Shaped like a stick.
What is a cuneiform?
Wedge shaped writing is called cuneiform.
What is the difference between a polytheist and a monotheist?
Polytheists believed in many gods.
Monotheist believe in one god.
How did the Sumerian gods differ from the one true God?
They personified forces of natures such as rain or wind or objects of nature such as sky, sun, or moon.
Why did the Sumerians strive to please their gods?
To gain the favor of the gods.
How could Sumerian king demand obedience of his subjects?
Anyone who refused to support the king risked bringing god’s wrath upon the whole city.
Why did war and struggle exist between Sumerian cities?
Kings represented different god’s that were struggling for power.
What was God’s promise to Abraham and what did Abraham’s faith begin?
His name would be great and that he would father a great nation.
Who is Anu?
The god of sky. False god of the Sumerians.
What is a humanist?
Made men into gods.
What is a ziggurat?
Towers built with tiered stages.
Who is Nanna?
Moon god of Sumerians.
Who is Ur-Nammu?
Sumerian King of Ur
Which city was the center of the great empire that rose up a few hundred years after Abraham’s departure?
Babylon
Who became king of Babylon and united all of Mesopotamia under his rule?
Hammurabi
Who supposedly authorized Hammurabi to be a lawgiver?
The sun god Shamash.
What are laws?
Rules the people follow in living together.
Why is it important that laws be written down?
Help make the laws known.
Did Hammurabi’s laws treat the rich and the poor the same?
No. His laws favored the rich.
What is an empire?
Rule by one city or people over other cities and people.
What is Babylonia?
Empires centered around Sumer.
What is bureaucracy?
Organized group of people appointed by a ruler to help govern.
What is promulgation?
Making the laws known.
Who are Patriarchs? How long did the patriarchs live in Canaan?
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
What is Megiddo?
Valley also name Armageddon.
How did the lack of a central, unified government in Canaan help Israel?
It allowed Israel to develop as a nation.
Give one example of God’s judgement on the lustful people of Canaan?
Baal
How were the Patriarch’s similar to the Canaanites? How did they differ?
Same: Both lived in same area
Differ: Patriarchs were good and Canaanites were evil.
What is Armageddon?
Valley in Canaan. Predicted to be last battleground of the world.
What is Baal?
Chief god of the Canaanites.
Who is Joseph?
Favorite son of Jacob. Sold into slavery by his brothers.
What are the huge tombs of ancient Egypt called?
Pyramids and sphinxes.
Why did the king of Egypt fear the Israelites and eventually enslave them?
Because of increase in population.
What discovery led to the deciphering of hieroglyphics? Who deciphered them?
Rosetta Stone which had three languages.
Jean Francis Champollion
Why have so many relics of ancient Egypt survived for thousands of years?
Dry and hot climate.
What is Mizraim?
Ham’s son who settled in Egypt.
Who is Herodotus?
Greek historian who wrote about the ruins in Egypt in the 5th Century.
What are sphinxes?
Statues with the heads of men, rams, or hawks and bodies of lions.
What are hieroglyphics?
Strange writing of the ancient Egyptians.
Who is Moses?
Israelite saved from death orders from Egyptians; raised by Egyptians; later would lead people in Exodus. Wrote first five books of the Bible.
What is archaeology?
Study of the relics and ruins of ancient cultures.
