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Where in Germany were people digging where they came across a human bone?

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Heidelberg

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What did people find while digging in Heidelberg?

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A human bone

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What kind of bone was discovered in Heidelberg?

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A lower jaw

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Where was a human skull found in Germany?

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In Neander Valley

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What qualities defined the bone that people found in Heidelberg?

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Massive, strong, powerful, teeth

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What was found in Neander Valley?

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A human skull

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What qualities defined the skull In Neander Valley?

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No forehead with two thick ridges above the eyebrows instead

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8
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How are we perhaps different from the neanderthal people?

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They might not have been good at thinking but were better at biting than us

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9
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What did scientists find about wood and plants and Volcanic rocks?

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They change slowly but regularly over a very long period of time

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How long did the search for bones last?

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More than a hundred and fifty years ago

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11
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Why is it called prehistory?

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Because It came before history

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12
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How did prehistoric people get away from the freezing cold?

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The prehistoric people came across a cave for shelter

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13
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Do you know what the prehistoric people invented?

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They invented talking

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14
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The prehistoric people invented something else?

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They also invented pictures

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15
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Why did the prehistoric people paint animals on their walls?

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Because the caves were dark

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16
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How long did the Ice age last?

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For tens and thousands of years

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17
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Did the ice retreat when the earth grew warmer?

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Yes

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18
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Did the earth grow warmer?

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Yes

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19
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What wild animals were in the forest?

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Wolves and bears

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20
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What were the prehistoric people masters at?

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Shaping and polishing

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21
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In Asia and Africa what was found there?

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Bones

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21
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How long ago did Neanderthal people appear?

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seventy thousand years earlier

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22
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What was as old as the Heidelberg jaw?

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Bones

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23
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When did the people find a better way to make tools?

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4000 BCE

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24
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What was melted into the fire called?

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Copper

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25
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What did the people use for protection?

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Helmets and Shields

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26
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Which three ages were there?

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  1. Stone Age
  2. Ice Age
  3. Bronze Age
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26
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What did they use to fight?

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Bows and arrows

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27
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People didn’t know how to build what?

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.Houses

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28
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How did they make fire?

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By rubbing two sticks together

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29
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Where does the setting take place?

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In Egypt

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30
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5100 years ago there was a king what was his name?

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Menes

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31
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What flies south to Italy?

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Swallows

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32
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Who worshiped the Nile like it was God?

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Egyptians

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33
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What was a king of Egypt called?

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Pharaohs

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33
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Which king lived in 2500 BC?

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King Cheops

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34
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Who believed in many gods?

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Egyptians

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35
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What was a single block of granite called?

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Obelisks

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36
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Where can you see an Obelisk?

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London by the Thames

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37
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What kind of animal was sacred ?

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Sphinx

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38
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What kind of whip did the kings have?

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Hippopotamus skin whip

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39
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How long have Sphinx been guarding the tombs of pharaohs?

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For more than five thousand years

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40
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What did they rub on dead people?

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Ointments and the juices of certain plants

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41
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A dead body preserved today is called a what?

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Mummy

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42
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What was a coffin made out of?

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Wood

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43
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Why did they use long strips of cloth?

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So it wouldn’t decay

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44
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A blank what intended to be a dwelling?

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Tomb

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45
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In the hymn what did they talk about?

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Barley, wheat and cattle

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45
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Who was immensely powerful?

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Pharaohs

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46
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Twice a year blank filled it’s sources?

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Heavy rain

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47
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When the waters blank?

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Withdrew

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48
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What was the name of the sun god, and the god of the dead?

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Sun God- Amon
The God of the dead- Anubis

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49
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What was King Cheops Tomb made out of?

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A whole stone mountain

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50
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A tomb was intended to be a blank for the soul?

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Dwelling for the soul when it returned to visit its body

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51
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Which Egyptian God had the head of a jackal?

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Anubis

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52
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What was represented in animal form?

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Gods

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53
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Would you like to hear a hymn they sang to their river happened how long ago?

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Four thousand years ago

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54
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What is a cathedral?

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A large church

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55
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Who summoned all his subjects to help construct his tomb?

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King Cheops

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56
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But the mummies of other kings and those of many ancient Egyptians have been blank in their tombs?

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Undisturbed

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57
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They had no machines in those days what did they have instead ?

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Only rollers and pulleys

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58
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For thirty years, some hundred thousand toiled for the blank?

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Pharaoh

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59
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They had to blank and blank every single block by hand

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Pull and Shove

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60
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How many days are there in the week ?

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Seven

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61
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What were the names of the two rivers?

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Tigris and Euphrates

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62
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Mesopotamia is Greek for what?

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The land between the rivers

63
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Great cities laid out with long what?

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Straight streets, tall houses, palaces and temples

64
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What was the greatest city on earth?

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Babylon

65
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What was the second greatest city called?

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Nineveh

66
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Blank was the capital for Babylonians?

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Babylon

67
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Who was in charge of the Assyrians?

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Nineveh

68
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Many blank and many blank held power at different times?

A

Tribes and Kings

69
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Who were the three most important groups/tribes?

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Sumerians, Babylonians and Assyrians

70
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In Egyptian culture they had blank?

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Towns, Noblemen, Temples, and
Priests , Administrators ,Artists,
Kings, Tradesmen ,writing and technical skills

71
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Sumerians were ahead of the what?

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Egyptians

72
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People learned how to shape blank from blank?

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Bricks from Clay

73
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People learned how to build houses and temples by?

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3100 BC

74
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Where can you find the largest mounds?

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The city of Ur

75
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A region in the Middle East is know called what?

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Iraq

76
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The Tigris and Euphrates join together and flow out to where?

A

Persian Gulf

77
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Mesopotamia is not in Africa but where?

A

Asia

78
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If you dig through bricks and rubble, you meet blank?

A

Stout and high walls

79
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Cuneiform means what?

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Wedge Shaped

80
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Books made of papyrus were unknown to?

A

Mesopotamia

81
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Inscriptions were not found in?

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Hieroglyphs

82
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The oldest book law- book was known as the?

A

Code of Hammurabi

83
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King Hammurabi lived around 1700 BC how long ago was that?

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That was 3700 years ago

84
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The Babylonians and the Assyrians were blank and blank?

A

Disciplined and Hardworking

85
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But they didn’t paint blank like the Egyptians?

A

Cheerful Pictures

85
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Where can you find treasures?

A

At the British Museum, The University of Pennsylvania

86
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Where else can you find treasures?

A

At the museum of Baghdad In Iraq

87
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What did people do to tablets of soft clay?

A

They put them in the oven

88
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Who battled Monsters and Dragons?

A

Gilgamesh

89
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Kings had temples built for all eternity and what else?

A

And all the nations they have conquered

90
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Merchants recorded their business dealing, contracts, receipts and what else?

A

And the inventories of goods

91
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What did kings have?

A

Long black ringlets

91
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Somethings the tribes were shown making sacrifices to who?

A

Baal the sun good or the moon goddess Ishtar or Astarte

92
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Who worshiped the sun and the moon and the stars?

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Babylonians and The Assyrians

93
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What was reappearing every night?

A

The vault of Heaven

94
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Mars meant wars and what did Venus mean?

A

Love

95
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These half ruined blank can still be seen today?

A

Ziggurats

95
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What was dedicated a day?

A

Each of the five plants

96
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The earliest kings lived as long ago as?

A

3000 BC

97
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Ziggurats were poking out of what?

A

Rubble mounds

98
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Who was the last Babylonian King?

A

Nebuchadnezzar

99
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Nebuchadnezzar lived around Blank BC?

A

600 BC

100
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Nebuchadnezzar was remembered for his blank?

A

Feats of war

101
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He fought against Egypt to bring home what to Babylon?

A

Foreign Captives

102
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Nebuchadnezzar used the foreign captives as what?

A

Slaves

103
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Those fierce kings had what?

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Long, Black beards

104
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The land today is a what?

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Desert wasteland and marshy plain

105
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Foreign tribes did what?

A

captured people

106
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Weekdays started how long ago?

A

Thousand of years ago

106
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Between Egypt and Mesopotamia what is there?

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Land of deep valleys and Rich pastures

106
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Thousands of years herdsman tended?

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Their flocks

107
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They also planted blank?

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Vines and Cereals

108
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Why did the Babylonians invade ?

A

So that the people would move place to place constantly

109
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But it wasn’t strong to resist the Mighty?

A

Armies of the neighbors

109
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But the people built towns and what else?

A

Fortresses

110
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The thousands of small tribes did what?

A

They made history

111
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The people had something special and that was?

A

Their Religion

112
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All the people prayed to who?

A

Isis, Osiris, Baal, and Astarte

113
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They had campfires in the evening and did what?

A

Sing songs

114
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But these Herdsmen prayed to one what?

A

God, and their own special protector and leader

115
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The songs were about what?

A

Their leader’s battles and deeds

116
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The strange and powerless herdsmen were who?

A

Jews

117
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The story of Abraham is in what?

A

Book of genesis in chapter eleven

118
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Their god talked about deeds?

A

And the Old Testament of the Bible

119
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Where did Abraham come from?

A

Ur in the Chaldees

120
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What did they find in the Persian Gulf?

A

Harps, Game boards, Weapons, and Jewelry

121
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Abraham lived around the same time as who?

A

Hammurabi

122
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When did Hammurabi lived around?

A

1700 BC

123
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Many of Hammurabi’s laws showed up where?

A

In the Bible

124
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What is the story of the Tower of Babel?

A

People tried to built a tower that would reach up to heaven

125
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Who stopped the people from making the tower go higher?

A

God

126
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The Babylonians really did build Gigantic towers?

A

That reached the heavens

127
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The story of Noah and the flood took place where?

A

Mesopotamia

128
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Tablets were dug up with what in them?

A

Cuneiform

129
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One of Abraham of Ur descendants was who?

A

Was Joseph son of Jacob

130
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Joseph become a what?

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Counselor and minister to the pharaoh

131
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Where did Joseph family settle?

A

In Egypt

132
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In 1250 BC children of Israel who got them out of Egypt?

A

Moses

133
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Jerusalem first king was who?

A

Saul

134
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He fought against the neighboring tribe the blank?

A

Philistines

135
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What happened to Saul on the battlefield?

A

He died

136
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The Bible had a lot of great kings such as who?

A

King David and King Solomon

137
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Who was a wise king?

A

King Solomon

138
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Solomon had architects not Jews but what?

A

But foreign Artisans

139
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Solomon’s reign didn’t go well the kingdom split in 2 what kingdom’s?

A

Kingdom of Israel and the Kingdom of Judah

140
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Which kingdom got conquered and destroyed?

A

Israel

141
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Who invaded Israel the kingdom by the blank in when?

A

Assyrians in 722 BC

142
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Their sermon was always the same what does that mean?

A

You yourselves are the cause of your misfortunes God is punishing you through your sins

143
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Who was the mighty Babylonian king warrior and ruler?

A

King Nebuchadnezzar

144
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Who had a war with the Egyptians?

A

King Nebuchadnezzar

145
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Where did Nebuchadnezzar marched through where?

A

The Promised land

146
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Nebuchadnezzar destroyed the city of what?

A

Jerusalem

146
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When was Jerusalem attacked and destroyed?

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586 BC

147
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The Babylonian empire was destroyed by who?

A

Persian Neighbor In 538 BC

148
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When the Jews returned to their homeland they had what?

A

Changed

149
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Who was different from the surrounding tribes?

A

The Jews

150
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How long ago was the Old Testament written

A

2500 years ago

151
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The Jews had to distance themselves from who?

A

Other Tribes

152
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The people called themselves what?

A

Chosen

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