Mesopotamia

Question 1

Who is Enki

Answer 1

The god of Winter

Question 2

What is a ziggurat

Answer 2

Structure built in mesopotamia

Question 3

lunar calendar

Answer 3

Calendar for the moon

Question 4

Empire

Answer 4

People that rule a country for generations

Question 5

cultural diffusion

Answer 5

spreading out, merging different cultures

Question 6

What is astronomy

Answer 6

Study of the stars

Question 7

David, Moses, Solomon, Abraham

Answer 7

people in the bible and the torah

Question 8

What is the torah

Answer 8

Important jewish scroll

Question 9

Tyre

Answer 9

Ancient Phonecian part of southern part of lebanon

Question 10

What is Mesopotamia

Answer 10

The middle east today

Question 11

Moral

Answer 11

Ethics of life

Question 12

hierarchy

Answer 12

Social Status

Question 13

Cuneiform

Answer 13

Writing used and created by the sumerians

Question 14

What did the Phoenicians/Lydians colonize?

Answer 14

They Colonized North africa, Italy and spain

Question 15

Hebrew

Answer 15

Jewish people today

Question 16

Mesopotamias English translation

Answer 16

The land between the two rivers

Question 17

Where phonecia had colonized

Answer 17

Italy, North Africa, Spain

Question 18

Two kingdoms that divided the early hebrews

Answer 18

Judah and Israel

Question 19

Lage structure in Mesopotamia used to worship a god

Answer 19

Ziggurat

Question 20

What broke up mesopotamia into 2 epochs

Answer 20

The great flood

Question 21

Mesopotamia was a good place to live because,

Answer 21

Fertile land and rivers for transportation

Question 22

What kept Jews in captivity for 50 years?

Answer 22

New babylon

Question 23

What objects were traded by the phenicians

Answer 23

Lumber and dyes

Question 24

What did Sumerian boys learn in school?

Answer 24

Religion, arithmetic and songs

Question 25

Why were the Phoenicians and Lydians so special?

Answer 25

The Lydians developed a market economy. Phoenicians traded dyes to make money.

Question 26

Some examples of Sumerian architect achievement

Answer 26

Arches and Ziggurats

Question 27

Why the Sumerians were constantly invaded are

Answer 27

Not isolated

Question 28

Describe at least three ways a river had an impact on early societies & more specifically, Mesopotamia.

Answer 28

Fertile land, Good soil for farming, Travel and trade

Question 29

Another name for the fertile crescent and what it means

Answer 29

The land between the two rivers