THE FERTILE CRESCENT(2ND PART)

The Fertile Crescent

I.                  Answer the questions

1.      What was the oldest known written language?

a)      Phoenician

b)      Sumer

c)      Babylonia

d)      Assyria

2.      What were the cities of Phoenicia?

a)      Ur and Erech

b)      Assur and Nineveh

c)      Babylon and Mari

d)      Tyre and Sidon

3.      In Phoenicia purple clothes were a symbol of being:

a)      Poor

b)      Normal

c)      Rich

d)      Doesn’t matter

4.      Where were the Phoenician ships?

a)      In the Mediterranean

b)      Spread out the Mediterranean

c)      Around the Mediterranean

d)      Doesn’t matter

5.      The information from the clay tablets was from the:

a)      Assyria

b)      Babylonia

c)      Sumer

d)      Egypt

6.      Which civilization mastered seafaring?

a)      Phoenicia

b)      Sumer

c)      Assyria

d)      Babylonia

II.               Match

Babylonia          Assyria          Phoenicia          Mesopotamia          Mesos          Potamos

Fertile crescent          Tigris and Euphrates          Polytheistic          Geography          Babylon     

Scribes          eye for an eye          social class

A.     Was a limit to revenge:___________________

B.     Have bazaars and include all Mesopotamia:___________________

C.     The capital of Babylonia:______________________

D.     Means river:________________

E.      Professional writers:__________________

F.      It was fertile crescent + Egypt and have war technology:______________________

G.     Means middle:_______________

H.     Fertile soil and abundance of water:_______________

I.        All Mesopotamia+ Phoenicia+Canaan:_____________________

J.       Many gods:___________________

K.     They were rivers of live and death:______________________

L.      Punishment and reward depended on the:______________________

M.    Where masters of sea trade:____________________

N.     Is between 2 rivers:_________________