Chapters 1-3

Question 0

Who bragged openly of killing a man who had wounded him and a boy who had merely struck him?

Answer 0

Lamech

Question 1

What does Genesis mean?

Answer 1

beginning or origin

Question 2

The way of life of a group of people

Answer 2

Culture

Question 3

What does the name Eve mean?

Answer 3

mother of all

Question 4

Who led in the building of the Tower of Babel?

Answer 4

Nimrod

Question 5

The first human sin

Answer 5

Adam and Eve disobeyed God

Question 6

The philosophy that puts man in place of or above God

Answer 6

Humanism

Question 7

Man’s special characteristics

Answer 7

Language and thought
Awareness of the difference between right and wrong
Freedom to make choices

Question 8

A tower built in tiers or stages

Answer 8

Ziggurat

Question 9

Rule by one city over other cities

Answer 9

Empire

Question 10

Organized group of people appointed by a ruler to help him govern

Answer 10

Bureaucracy

Question 11

Sumerian writing

Answer 11

Cuneiform

Question 12

Worshiper of one god

Answer 12

Monotheist

Question 13

Tigris means

Answer 13

Fruitful

Question 14

Three Sumerian accomplishments

Answer 14

Division by 60
The wheel
Irrigation projects

Question 15

Mesopotamia means ______.

Answer 15

Land between the rivers

Question 16

A.D. Before a date means _____.

Answer 16

In the year of our Lord

Question 17

Who left Ur around 2000B.C. To begin a new nation?

Answer 17

Abraham

Question 18

Why did God send the flood?

Answer 18

Because of the wickedness of mankind

Question 19

Who killed his brother in a fit of jealousy?

Answer 19

Cain

Question 20

History was put on what kind of course because of the sin of Adam in the Garden of Eden?

Answer 20

Downward

Question 21

A large group of people who think of themselves as one and act in history as a unit

Answer 21

Nation

Question 22

God called Abraham to leave what city?

Answer 22

Ur

Question 23

Under hammurabi’s law, how were offenders punished?

Answer 23

Unequally

Question 24

The most important part of a people’s culture

Answer 24

Relationship to God

Question 25

The patriarchs of Israel

Answer 25

Abraham
Isaac
Jacob

Question 26

The longest river in the world

Answer 26

Nile Riverr

Question 27

A stylus was used for what type of writing?

Answer 27

Sumerian

Question 28

Egyptian writing

Answer 28

Hieroglyphics

Question 29

Early tombs with flat tops and sloping sides

Answer 29

Mastabas

Question 30

Kept the written records in Egypt

Answer 30

Scribe

Question 31

Carving with the body of a lion and the head of a man

Answer 31

Sphinx

Question 32

Became popular tombs after the pyramids

Answer 32

Temples

Question 33

People who find and study the remains of past cultures

Answer 33

Archaeologists

Question 34

The many streams of the Nile near the Mediterranean Sea form a fan-shaped area known as what region?

Answer 34

Delta

Question 35

The Egyptians preserved dead bodies through the process of

Answer 35

Mummification

Question 36

The land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers

Answer 36

Mesopotamia

Question 37

One who worships many gods

Answer 37

Polytheist

Question 38

The geek historian who wrote about ancient Egypt

Answer 38

Herodotus

Question 39

Sumerian writing

Answer 39

Cuneiform