NJN History: Mesopotamia: Return to Eden
Israelites
100 years before Nebuchadnezzar took the ___ to Babylon
Northern Iraq
1852 in____ ____ the royal palace of Nineveh was found
scribe
A person who copies the Torah is a ____
Control
Absolute power means
Gods
Babylon had many ____ or Polytheism
Bible
Babylon is where the ____ first became a book
legal
Babylon was the first civilization to have a written ____ code
Assyria
Bible called _____ "A land bathed in blood"
Patriarchal
Details of every day life revealed a ____ society
holy
Each Torah is considered ____
Mesopotamia, Iraq
Greeks called it ____. Today we call it _____
influenced
Hammurabi's code ____ nearly every civilization since
2000
His stories predate the writing of the Bible by about ____ years
Moabite
In 1868 the ____ stone was found. This was the first archaeological find that confirms biblical stories.
Nimrod
In 1989 the treasure of ___ was found
Jerusalem
In 586 BC King Nebuchadnezzar, a Babylonian, destroyed ____
Sennacherib
In 701 BC King ____ wanted to conquer all in his path
clay tablets
In Nineveh's library 22,000 ____ ___ we're found
Flood
In Sumer, at the story of a great ___ was told
Babylon
In psalms 137, they captive Israelites, lament of Zion, and are taken to ____
wrote
It was in Babylon that the Jews ____ their religion down
underground aqueduct
King Hezekiah save Jerusalem by building an _____ ____
creation
Sumer was the ___ of civilization itself
civilization
Sumer was the first ____ on earth
War
The Assyrians maintained a powerful ___ machine
War
The Assyrians were masters of the art of ____
Scribes
The Babylonians influenced the ____ who wrote the Bible
liberal; religion
The Babylonians were pretty ____. The Israelites were allowed to keep their own _____.
Historical
The Bible is sacred and ____
accounts, stories
The Moabite stone provided ____, ____ for the same event
Ten Commandments
The ____ ______ were the foundation of biblical law
Assyrians
The ____ attacked Israel
Sea Scrolls
The dead ___ were found in caves east of Jerusalem
Assyrians
The deadliest armies to sweep through the ancient world was the ____
Gilgamesh
The garden of Eden is also told in the epic of _____
Dilman
The garden of Eden is called ____
Nineveh
The great capital city of Assyria was ___, which is found in the Torah
Lived longer
The people of Bahrain were taller and healthier and _____ ____
agreed
The stories ____ but the views were different
Gilamesh
The story of Noah's ark is also told in the epic of ______
2000
The tomb, the treasure of nimrod, was at least ___ years old
Assyrian queens
The treasure of Nimrod was the tomb of 2 ____ ______
Isreal
The western edge of Mesopotamia is ____
Hammurabi's Code
The written legal code was called ____
minute
They also invented the 60 second ____
five, Torah
They found the first ___ books of the Bible, known as the ___
writing
They invented ____. It was something no one had ever done before.
Abraham
Ur is considered the possible birth place for ____
write
We know about them mainly because they could ____
Assyria
When Rome was a baby ____ was the greatest empire in the world
Babel
Written in the Bible are descriptions of the Tower of ____ or a ziggurat
Babylon
___ was the last of these lost civilizations
snakes
____ were found buried with the people of Bahrain
Biblical
_______ archeologists locate sites from the Bible