Friday, October 5, 2012

Mesopotamia - Final Review

The student should be able to answer the following oral questions and perform the following activities:


Identify the Fertile Crescent and its two major rivers.  Identify the two major seas in Israel and its river.

Identify the following places:
  • Uruk
  • Babylon
  • Byblos
  • Jerusalem
  • Mt. Sinai

Point out the general location on a map of where the following groups lived, and something about their cultures
  • Phoenicians
  • Babylonians
  • Sumerians
  • Hittites
  • Assyrians
  • Israelites
Retell the epic of Gilgamesh.  Retell the major points of the flood of Utnapishtim.

Relate the sequence of major events and figures of Israelite history from Adam through Ezra with particular attention to interactions between cultures, including:
  1. Adam/Eve
  2. Noah and Flood :: Utnapishtim
  3. Abraham
  4. Jacob and his twelve sons
  5. Joseph :: Egypt
  6. Exodus 
  7. Mt. Sinai and the 10 Commandments
  8. Fall of Jericho
  9. David and Goliath
  10. Solomon
  11. Ahab, Jezebel, and Elijah :: Phoenicians
  12. Isaiah, Jeremiah, and the Assyrian Conquest :: Assyria
  13. The Babylonian Captivity; Daniel and Esther :: Babylon
  14. Return to Jerusalem, Ezra
  15. Maccabees and Greece :: Greece
  16. Roman conquest; Essenes, Pharisees, Scribes, and Sadducees :: Rome
  17. Birth of Jesus Christ

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