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Question 1

why was mesopotamia called the land between the nile

Answer 1

it was greek for the land between the rivers.

Question 2

Which was once the greatest city on earth?

Answer 2

Babylon.

Question 3

Which was the second greatest city in the worls?

Answer 3

Nineveh

Question 4

Which was the capitial of the Babylonians?

Answer 4

Babylon.

Question 5

Which was the capital of the Assyrians?

Answer 5

Nineveh.

Question 6

What was the difference between Egypt an Mesopotamia?

Answer 6

Mesopotamia was rarely ruled by just one king.

Question 8

Where was Abraham born

Answer 8

He was born in the city of Ur.

Question 9

What did they find in the ruins of the city of Ur?

Answer 9

Dazzling gold headdresses, gold vessels for sacrifices, gold helmets and gold daggers with semi-precious stones.

Question 10

WHat else did they find in the rubble mounds?

Answer 10

round seals inscribed with clay tablets in tombs. they’re called Cuneiform.

Question 11

What does cuneiform mean?

Answer 11

wedge-shaped.

Question 12

How did they inscribe cuneiform?

Answer 12

they inscribed them into soft clay then baked hard into ovens.

Question 13

who inscribed a long and importan tmessgae engraved in stone.

Answer 13

King Hammurabi.

Question 14

which is the oldest law-book in the world.

Answer 14

the code of Hammurabi.

Question 15

When did king hammurabi live?

Answer 15

1700 BC, about 3700 years ago.

Question 16

What did the Egyptian statues look like?

Answer 16

“Most of their statues show 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. The kings look forbidding and have long black ringlets and rippling beards.”

Question 17

What do the statues also show them doing?

Answer 17

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

Question 18

what did the Babylonians and Assyrians worship?

Answer 18

The sun, moon and stars.

Question 19

Who recorded the everything they saw in the skies and gave them names?

Answer 19

The Babylonian sand Assyrians.

Question 20

What did they name Mars after?

Answer 20

War.

Question 21

What did they name Venus after?

Answer 21

Love.

Question 22

What did the Babylonians build to be nearer to the stars?

Answer 22

They built ziggurats.

Question 23

What are ziggurats?

Answer 23

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

Question 24

What is at the top of ziggurats?

Answer 24

There was a temple dedicated to the moon or one of the other planets.

Question 25

Who was the last great Babylonian king?

Answer 25

King Nebuchanezzar.

Question 27

who fought against Egypt and brought home a vast number of slaves?

Answer 27

King Nebuchandezzar.

Question 28

When did King Nebuchadnezzar live?

Answer 28

Around 600 BC.

Question 29

How was Mesopotamia ruled?

Answer 29

"Unlike Egypt, Mesopotamia was rarely ruled by just one king."

Question 30

Where would people from all over the world go to trade their wares?

Answer 30

They would go to Babhylon.

Question 31

What other city besides Babylon rested at the foot of the mountains?

Answer 31

Nineveh.

Question 32

What were the tombs packed with?

Answer 32

Dazzling gold headdresses and gold vessels for sacrifices, gold helmets and gold daggers set with semi-precious stones. Magnificent harps decorated with bulls' heads, and a gameboard carefully crafted like a chessboard.

Question 33

Where can we find these astonishing treasure that were found in the tombs?

Answer 33

British museum, University of Pennsylvania and the Museum of Baghdad in Iraq.

Question 34

Against what did Giglamesh fight?

Answer 34

Monsters and dragons.

Question 35

What can you find on the inscribed tablets?

Answer 35

Recorded business dealings, contracts, receipts, and inventories of goods.

Question 36

Who else besides the Babylonians and Assyrians were great traders?

Answer 36

The Sumerians were also pretty great traders.

Question 37

Who was the first king to rule of BAbylon/

Answer 37

King Hammurabi.

Question 38

Who were the ones that recorded everything they saw in the skies?

Answer 38

Babylonians and Assyrians.