Chapter 2: Mesopotamia

Match the following

• Hammurabi

• wrote laws with no religious sections

• scribes

• boys studied in Sumerian schools to become this

• Standard of Ur

• a wooden box discovered by Sir Leonard Woolley

• ziggurat

• what Sumerian schools were known as

• tablet-houses

• a pyramid-like structure

Match the following

• polytheism

• given to Moses by God

• Mosaic Law

• the worship of one god

• epics

• writings about Sumerian gods and military victories

• monotheism

• the worship of many gods

Match the following

• Assyrians

• Joan preached here to turn people from their evil ways

• Nineveh

• considered by Mesopotamians to be gods

• king

• used by God to punish disobedient people

Babylon was the ______ of the Chaldean Empire

______________ wrote a letter after God humbled them.

The _______ were descendants of Heth and excelled in the production of ____

God judged the people of Nineveh when they returned to their ____ ways

The Akkadian Empire was established by ______ _

The Epic of Gilgamesh tells how Utnapishtim build a house

• True

• False

God revealed the historically accurate account of the Flood to Moses

• True

• False