Sunday, Monday Flashcards

1
Q

How many days are there in the week ?

A

Seven

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2
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What were the names of the two rivers?

A

Tigris and Euphrates

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3
Q

Mesopotamia is Greek for what?

A

The land between the rivers

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4
Q

Great cities laid out with long what?

A

Straight streets, tall houses, palaces and temples

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5
Q

What was the greatest city on earth?

A

Babylon

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6
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What was the second greatest city called?

A

Nineveh

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7
Q

Blank was the capital for Babylonians?

A

Babylon

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8
Q

Who was in charge of the Assyrians?

A

Nineveh

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9
Q

Many blank and many blank held power at different times?

A

Tribes and Kings

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10
Q

Who were the three most important groups/tribes?

A

Sumerians, Babylonians and Assyrians

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11
Q

In Egyptian culture they had blank?

A

Towns, Noblemen, Temples, and
Priests , Administrators ,Artists,
Kings, Tradesmen ,Writing and Technical Skills

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12
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Sumerians were ahead of the what?

A

Egyptians

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13
Q

People learned how to shape blank from blank?

A

Bricks from Clay

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14
Q

People learned how to build houses and temples by?

A

3100 BC

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15
Q

Where can you find the largest mounds?

A

The city of Ur

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16
Q

A region in the Middle East is know called what?

A

Iraq

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17
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The Tigris and Euphrates join together and flow out to where?

A

Persian Gulf

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18
Q

Mesopotamia is not in Africa but where?

A

Asia

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19
Q

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

A

Stout and high walls

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20
Q

Cuneiform means what?

A

Wedge Shaped

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21
Q

Books made of papyrus were unknown to?

A

Mesopotamia

22
Q

Inscriptions were not found in?

A

Hieroglyphs

23
Q

The oldest book law- book was known as the?

A

Code of Hammurabi

24
Q

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

A

That was 3700 years ago

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The Babylonians and the Assyrians were blank and blank?
Disciplined and Hardworking
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But they didn't paint blank like the Egyptians?
Cheerful Pictures
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Where can you find treasures?
At the British Museum, The University of Pennsylvania
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Where else can you find treasures?
At the museum of Baghdad
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What did people do to tablets of soft clay?
They put them in the oven
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Who battled Monsters and Dragons?
Gilgamesh
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Kings had temples built for all eternity and what else?
And all the nations they have conquered
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Merchants recorded their business dealing, contracts, receipts and what else?
And the inventories of goods
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What did kings have?
Long black ringlets
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Somethings the tribes were shown making sacrifices to who?
Baal the sun good or the moon goddess Ishtar or Astarte
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Who worshiped the sun and the moon and the stars?
Babylonians and The Assyrians
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What was reappearing every night?
The vault of Heaven
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Mars meant wars and what did Venus mean?
Love
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What was dedicated a day?
Each of the five plants
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These half ruined blank can still be seen today?
Ziggurats
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The earliest kings lived as long ago as?
3000 BC
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Ziggurats were poking out of what?
Rubble mounds
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Who was the last Babylonian King?
Nebuchadnezzar
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Nebuchadnezzar lived around Blank BC?
600 BC
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Nebuchadnezzar was remembered for his blank?
Feats of war
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He fought against Egypt to bring home what to Babylon?
Foreign Captives
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Nebuchadnezzar used the foreign captives as what?
Slaves
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Those fierce kings had what?
Long, Black beards
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The land today is a what?
Desert wasteland and marshy plain
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Foreign tribes did what?
captured people
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Weekdays started how long ago?
Thousand of years ago