World History Study

he would have a great or famous name he would be blessed and be a blessing he would become a great nation land

What is promised to Abram in Genesis 12:1-3 and 7

hard work and cooperation

What was vitally needed to cultivate the Fertile Crescent region?

Semites

Which group populated Arabia and the Fertile Crescent

2500 B.C.

most conservative date for the Flood

8000,5000, or 4000 B.C.

probable dates for creation

Babel

represented united human strength in rebellion against God.

uniformitarian geology

says earth is billions of years old

probable date for Chinese civilization

third millennium

catastrophism

violent interruption

Mesopotamia

According to most historians the cradle of the civilization was in?

Canaan, Japheth

According to the curse pronounced by Noah (Genesis 9:24-27), ___________ was to serve Shem and __________

True

The Hebrew civilization was part of God's blessing upon Japheth's descendents.

cuneiform

A wedge shaped style of writing used in Sumer

temple tower

A ziggurat is a:

3000 B.C.

Cities first arose in Sumer around?

True

Egypt was settled by Ham or his descendants

Africa

Ham and his descendents spread throughout , ______________ although some of them remained in Arabia, Palestine, and Mesopotamia.

Akkadian, Aramaic, Syriac, Phoenician, Ugaritic, Hebrew, Moabite

Name seven of the Semitic language groups.

Kings

The Lugal were _______

Fertile Crescent

The area that stretches from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea and contains some of the richest farmland in the world is called the:

Ur

The dynasty which ruled from about 2125 to 2025 B.C. was the Third Dynasty of _____.

planned

The economy that the Third Dynasty promulgated was a(n) __________ economy.

idolaters

The members of Abraham's family were __________ before they left Ur.