Test 3

Question 0

What is another name for Mesopotamia?

Answer 0

Land bw the rivers

Question 1

What forms the western boundary of the Fertile Crescent?

Answer 1

Mediterranean Sea

Question 2

Floods were?

Answer 2

Unpredictable

Question 3

Difficulties in Mesopotamia?

Answer 3

Lack of water
No natural defenses
Few resources for tools

Question 4

Where did the people of Mesopotamia get their water?

Answer 4

Irrigation

Question 5

How many gods did the typical Sumerian have?

Answer 5

3000

Question 6

Two phrases to describe Sumerian gods?

Answer 6

Capricious and all powerful

Question 7

Who knew how to please the gods?

Answer 7

Priests only

Question 8

Who became the rulers?

Answer 8

Priests and warriors

Question 9

What did the Sumerians do for defense besides build walls?

Answer 9

Stick together

Question 10

What developed in the time of the Sumerians?

Answer 10

Specialized trade

Question 11

Where was writing first developed?

Answer 11

Sumer

Question 12

What was writing used for?

Answer 12

Record business transactions, temple records

Question 13

Where did Sargon I create the first empire?

Answer 13

Akkad

Question 14

Who was Hammurabi?

Answer 14

Amorite King who ruled Babylon

Question 15

What did Hammurabi do?

Answer 15

Develop uniform law code

Question 16

What was hammurabi’s code?

Answer 16

Lex talionis
Eye for an eye
Exodus 21

Question 17

Two characteristics of hammurabi’s code?

Answer 17

Different punishments for different social classes

Written down for all to see

Question 18

What did the Assyrians do with their captives?

Answer 18

Dispersed them

Question 19

In which books of the Bible is Assyria mentioned?

Answer 19

Isaiah
Jonah
Nahum

Question 20

Who were the Chaldeans?

Answer 20

New Babylonians

Question 21

Who built the hanging gardens?

Answer 21

Nebuchadnezzar II

Question 22

Where was Nebuchadnezzar mentioned?

Answer 22

Daniel

Question 23

Who did Babylon fall to?

Answer 23

Medes and Persians

Question 24

Where were the Phoenician colonies?

Answer 24

Around the Mediterranean

Question 25

What did the Phoenicians invent?

Answer 25

The alphabet | The sail

Question 26

Why did the Phoenicians offer sacrifices to molech?

Answer 26

Blessings | More children

Question 27

Which patriarch carried on the covenant?

Answer 27

Isaac

Question 28

Who received the blessing besides the patriarchs?

Answer 28

Ishmael

Question 29

Who are ishmael's modern descendants?

Answer 29

Arabs

Question 30

What did Joseph do?

Answer 30

Became second in command Bought land for pharaoh Saved family

Question 31

What is the Decalogue to the Hebrews?

Answer 31

Not arbitrary, but a response

Question 32

Which book did the wandering take place in?

Answer 32

Exodus and numbers

Question 33

What was the time of the judges called?

Answer 33

The time of apostasy

Question 34

What did David do militarily?

Answer 34

United Kingdom | Expanded borders

Question 35

Which dynasty was omri?

Answer 35

4

Question 36

Who assassinated jehu?

Answer 36

Jehu

Question 37

Who made Israel become strong again?

Answer 37

Jeroboam II

Question 38

Who told off bed defeat of Jerusalem from Babylon?

Answer 38

Daniel and Ezekiel

Question 39

When do the Romans raze Jerusalem?

Answer 39

70 ad

Question 40

What are the concepts associated with Judaism?

Answer 40

Radical monotheism Ethical monotheism Salvation history

Question 41

What is radical monotheism?

Answer 41

Only one God | Idolatry is stupid

Question 42

Ethical monotheism?

Answer 42

Our standards emerge from God's character | Be holy for I am holy. Leviticus

Question 43

Salvation history?

Answer 43

God makes covenants with his people Abraham, Moses, and David Disobedience has consequences, but messiah will come

Question 44

How did King Cyrus rule?

Answer 44

Limited self government | Toleration

Question 45

What was Darius's government?

Answer 45

Efficient Set up satrapies Sent inspectors Standardized coinage

Question 46

Who did Persia fall to?

Answer 46

Alexander the Great and the Greeks