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What two rivers is Mesopotamia?

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Tigris and Euphrates.

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What is Mesopotamia in Greek?

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‘Between the rivers.’

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Where does the Tigris and Euphrates rivers flow out of?

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The Persian Gulf.

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What is Mesopotamia like today?

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Destroyed cities and towns.

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What is the definition of vast?

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Immense; extensive.

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What was the greatest city on earth?

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Babylon.

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What is the definition of swarming?

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Large crowd; large mass.

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What was the second greatest city in the land?

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Nineveh.

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What was Nineveh the capital of?

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The capital of Assyrians.

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Who was ahead of the Egyptians?

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The Sumerians were ahead of the Egyptians.

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What is the definition of excavation?

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To uncover by digging.

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By what time did they already know how to shape bricks, build houses, and build temples?

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3100 BC.

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Where was Abraham born?

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City of Ur.

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What time did the tombs of Ur date at?

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Around the same time as Cheops’s Great Pyramid in Egypt.

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What is the definition of Astonishing?

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Extremely surprising; impressive; amazing.

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What were the harps decorated with?

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Bull’s heads.

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17
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Where are the treasures located now?

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British Museum in England. University of Pennsylvania. Museum of Baghdad in Iraq.

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What is the script on the clay tablets called?

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Cuneiform.

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What did they find in the tombs?

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Round seals and inscribed clay tablets.

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What does cuneiform mean?

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Wedge-shaped.

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How do they harden soft clay tablets?

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They bake them in ovens.

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Who was the hero that fought battles with monsters and dragons?

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Gilgamesh.

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What deeds did the King’s boast about?

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“…the temples they have built for all eternity, and all the nations they have conquered.”

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What book material did Mesopotamian’s not know about yet?

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Papyrus.

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What did merchants record on their tablets?

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“…business dealings—contracts, receipts, and inventories of goods…”

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Who were good traders?

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Babylonians, Assyrians, and Sumerians.

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27
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What is the oldest law-book?

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Code of Hammurabi.

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Who was one of the first Babylonian King’s to rule over the whole region?

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King Hammurabi.

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When did King Hammurabi live?

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Around 1700 BC (3700 years ago).

30
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How many years ago was 1700 BC?

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3700 years ago.

31
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What is the definition of deed?

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An action that is performed intentionally or consciously.

32
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What is the definition of eternity?

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Infinite or unending time.

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What is the definition of inscription?

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Words inscribed, as on a monument or in a book.

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What is the definition of engraved?

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Cut or carve on the surface of a hard object.

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What do most of their statues and reliefs show?

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“…kings out hunting or inspecting kneeling captives bound in chains, or foreign tribes-people fleeing before the wheels of their chariots, and warriors attacking fortresses.”

36
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What describes the kings?

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Forbidding, long black ringlets, and rippling beards.

37
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Who does it sometimes show they are making sacrifices to?

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Baal, the sun god, or to the moon goddess Ishtar or Astarte.

38
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What are the names of the moon gods?

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Ishtar and Astarte.

39
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What did the Babylonians and Assyrians worship?

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The Sun, moon, and stars.

40
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When did they record stars they saw in the skies?

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Clear and warm nights.

41
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What shape did they think the earth was?

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A flat disk.

42
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What did they think the sky was?

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A hollow sphere cup over the earth that turned over it once each day.

43
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What “stars” are close to earth and revolve around the sun?

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Planets.

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What did they think of planets?

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Powerful beings whose positions influenced the destinies of men.

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What is the Greek name for the belief in stars?

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Astrology.

46
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What did Mars mean?

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War.

47
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What did Venus mean?

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Love.

48
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What planet represents Saturday?

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Saturn.

49
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What star represents Sunday?

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Sun.

50
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What planet represents Monday?

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Moon.

51
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What were the other days named after?

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They were named after gods.

52
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What is the definition of forbidding?

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Unfriendly or threatening in appearance.

53
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What is the definition of ringlets?

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A lock of hair hanging in a cork-screw shaped curl.

54
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What is the definition of vault?

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A roof in the form of an arch or a room or chamber used to store valuable things.

55
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What is the definition of constellation?

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A group of stars forming a recognizable pattern.

56
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What buildings did Babylonians and Sumerians erect from the ground?

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Ziggurats.

57
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Describe a ziggurat.

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“Tall, broad towers made up of terraces piled one on top of another, with formidable ramps and steep, narrow staircases.”

58
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What did people come to ask the priests?

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Their fortune.

59
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When did the earliest kings live in the region where the Tower of Babel was?

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As long ago as 3000 BC, and the last around 550 BC.

60
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Who was the last great Babylonian king?

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King Nebuchadnezzar.

61
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When did King Nebuchadnezzar live?

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He lived around 600 BC.

62
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What was King Nebuchadnezzar remembered for?

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His feats of war.

63
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Who did King Nebuchadnezzar fight against?

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He fought against Egypt.

64
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What was King Nebuchadnezzar greatest deeds?

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His huge canals and water cisterns.

65
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Why did King Nebuchadnezzar make huge canals and water cisterns?

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So he can retain the water and irrigate the land so that it becomes rich and fertile.

66
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Why did the land become a desert wasteland and marshy plain today?

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The canals became blocked with silt and the cisterns filled with mud.

67
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What is the definition of venerable?

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Worthy of respect because of dignity.

68
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What is the definition of formidable?

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Awesome; threatening; overwhelming.

69
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What is the definition of cistern?

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A storage tank for water; a container for rainwater.

70
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What is the definition of irrigate?

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To furnish water for growing plants.

71
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What is the definition of silt?

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Extremely fine particles carried by water.

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