Fertile Crescent Review

What type of literature explains how things in nature happen?

What civilization followed the Ten Commandments as their code of laws?

What writing system used wedge-shaped symbols carved on clay tablets?

Which civilization used the Code of Hammurabi as their system of laws?

In ancient Sumer, a professional writer was called a __________________________.

What civilization developed a 22 letter alphabet?

What book is the oldest in the world?

What civilization invented the arch and the wheel?

The __________________________ people were the first to believe in one God.

Who was the Babylonian god of justice?

Who was the creator of the Babylonian empire?

What is a Greek word that means "between the rivers"?

A state with its own ruler, government, and god or goddess to worship was a __________________.

Which civilization contributed the Old Testament of the Bible to our modern world?

The Fertile Crescent was located in __________________________.

A group of peoples and territories under one ruler is a(n) __________________.

Who was the Sumerian storm god?

Who was the Babylonian main god?

What law code practiced an eye for an eye justice?

What two rivers were known as the “Twin Rivers"?

What civilization contributed the Hanging Gardens to the Seven Wonders of the World?

A ________________________________ was a Sumerian temple.

The Assyrian empire was ruled by _______________________ the Great.

The site of the world’s first civilizations was known as the ________________________ .

The Hebrew name for God was _____________________________________.