Chapters 1-3 Flashcards
Who bragged openly of killing a man who had wounded him and a boy who had merely struck him?
Lamech
What does Genesis mean?
beginning or origin
The way of life of a group of people
Culture
What does the name Eve mean?
mother of all
Who led in the building of the Tower of Babel?
Nimrod
The first human sin
Adam and Eve disobeyed God
The philosophy that puts man in place of or above God
Humanism
Man’s special characteristics
Language and thought
Awareness of the difference between right and wrong
Freedom to make choices
A tower built in tiers or stages
Ziggurat
Rule by one city over other cities
Empire
Organized group of people appointed by a ruler to help him govern
Bureaucracy
Sumerian writing
Cuneiform
Worshiper of one god
Monotheist
Tigris means
Fruitful
Three Sumerian accomplishments
Division by 60
The wheel
Irrigation projects
Mesopotamia means ______.
Land between the rivers
A.D. Before a date means _____.
In the year of our Lord
Who left Ur around 2000B.C. To begin a new nation?
Abraham
Why did God send the flood?
Because of the wickedness of mankind
Who killed his brother in a fit of jealousy?
Cain
History was put on what kind of course because of the sin of Adam in the Garden of Eden?
Downward
A large group of people who think of themselves as one and act in history as a unit
Nation
God called Abraham to leave what city?
Ur
Under hammurabi’s law, how were offenders punished?
Unequally
The most important part of a people’s culture
Relationship to God
The patriarchs of Israel
Abraham
Isaac
Jacob
The longest river in the world
Nile Riverr
A stylus was used for what type of writing?
Sumerian
Egyptian writing
Hieroglyphics
Early tombs with flat tops and sloping sides
Mastabas
Kept the written records in Egypt
Scribe
Carving with the body of a lion and the head of a man
Sphinx
Became popular tombs after the pyramids
Temples
People who find and study the remains of past cultures
Archaeologists
The many streams of the Nile near the Mediterranean Sea form a fan-shaped area known as what region?
Delta
The Egyptians preserved dead bodies through the process of
Mummification
The land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers
Mesopotamia
One who worships many gods
Polytheist
The geek historian who wrote about ancient Egypt
Herodotus
Sumerian writing
Cuneiform
