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The Ancient Near East
"Mesopotamia" means _____________
The Epic of __________________
The Ancient Near East
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World History ch. 2
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The Epic of __________________
Gargoyle
Goliath
Gargamel
Gilgamesh
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"Mesopotamia" means _____________
Sumer
Uruk
land between the rivers
messy land
3
The Patriarchs of the Hebrew people
Samuel, Ehud, & Barak
Moses, Joshua, & Aaron
Abraham, Isaac, & Jacob
Saul, David, & Solomon
4
A city and the land it controlled
region
city-state
state
city
5
Builder of the "hanging gardens"
Darius I
Nabopolasser II
Nebulizer I
Nebuchadnezzar II
6
___________ formed the world's first empire
Sargon I
Nebuchadnezzar
Hammurabi
Cyrus the Great
7
Hebrew sacred writing
the Bible
Koran
the Torah
Asvet
8
The scattering of the Jews
Holocaust
Great Migration
Diaspora
Exodus
9
A pyramid-shaped temple tower of ancient Sumer
ziggurat
sanctuary
pyramid
Parsagad
10
Polytheism means ____________
worship of the king
worship of one God
worship of God
worship of many gods
11
Released the Jews from captivity
Xerxes
Cyrus the Great
Moses
Nebuchadnezzar
12
Established the world's first empire
Sumerians
Hittites
Babylonians
Akkadians
13
Developers of the world's first civilization
Sumerians
Akkadians
Hittites
Phoenecians
14
A large band of land which curves between the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf
fertile crescent
fertile plain
fertile valley
15
An Akkadian ruler
Sargon I
Hammurabi
Nebuchadnezzar
Cyrus the Great
16
Sumerian writing
calligrophay
alphabet
cuneiform
hyeroglyphics
17
The first people in the Near East to master iron-working techniques
Mesopotamians
Persians
Hittites
Hebrews
18
Hammurabi is most famous for __________
the hanging gardens
his library
his epic
code of laws
19
Greatest achievement of the Phoenicians
alphabet
their temple
architecture
trade
20
The belief that the world is controlled by two opposing forces, good and evil
globalism
Zoroastrianism
Judaism
dualism
