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quiz 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What does most imformation come from? | the torah |
| christians know the torah books as the? | Old testament |
| According to the torah God chose Abraham to be what? | father of the hebrew people |
| What des the book of Genesis tells us? | God commanding Abrham to move to cannaan oaround 1800 BCE |
| hebrews belief system was usual for the time | Monothesistic |
| Abraham's desendants move to egypt in 1650 BCE for what? | (the weather/water) |
| WHo did God protect | hebrews |
| What is a covenant? | promise made between man and God |
| Who become slaves of the eyptains? | the jews |
| What was between 1300-1200 BCE | "the exodus" occurs |
| What was led by moses? | passover |
| What happens when Moses climbs to the top of Mt. Sinai? | A buring bush and gives him the 10 commandments |
| Who was the persian prophet? | zoraster |
| who would always ask "why is there oo much chaos and suffereing in the world" | zoraster |
| earth is a battle ground where a great stuggle is fought between the spirit of good and the spirit of evil | zoroastrism |
| belief in one God | zoroastrism |
| Each person expected to take part in the struggle | zoraistrism |
| Angels heaven and hell | zorostirms |
| Woman high place society | minoans |
| known for the sports; and the most famous for | minoans, bull leaping |
| good at trading known for trading all over the world | minoans |
| made metal goods (poetry and art) | minoans |
| earth kept occuring | minoans |
| a volcano errupted | minoans |
| created the alphabet | phoenians |
| greek/ english/ biggest traders/ along the coast of africa | phoenians |
| known for te purple dye; 60,000 snails and sailing exportise | phoenians |
| polythesitic, divided into city states, military time of war, precher time of peace; culture ziggurate, first written lang. hammurarbi code | early civilations- sumerians |
| deserts, tomps for pramids, hiergrlyphics, written on papyrus | eyptains |
| rosseta stone | allowed us to translate hiergyplicts |
| hammurambi code | an eye for an eye, strict, protect its people, 282 laws |
| what is weird about the nile river? | ran up north- lake victoria |
| flooding compared to mesopotwmia? | more occiasonial |
| deserts offered... | protection |
| authrity is? | theorcracy |
| what purpose did the pyrmaids serve? | tumbs for gods and possesions |
| what was similiar to the sumerians? | hieroglyphics, papyrus |
| mesopotania? | lands between the river |
| importance of rivers? | the tigris and the euphral river |
| sumer is different from earlier civilizations bc | advance cities, workers, intutins, keeping, technology |
| what was the sumerian religion? | polytheism |
| what was the system of writing? | cunieform |
| earth is a battleground where a great stuggle is fought between good and evil | zorastrianism |