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Mesopotamia
1. What are the three great civilizations of the ancient world?
2. What is the area known as Mesopotamia called today?
3. What discovery occurred in 1947?
4. What are the Dead Sea Scrolls?
5. What are the first five books of the bible called by the Jews?
6. Where did the bible first become a written document?
7. Why was the bible written down?
8. What is the first civilization to have a written code of law?
9. Who was the person whom the laws are named for?
10. Why was Assyria called the land bathed in blood?
11. What is absolute power and how is it kept?
12. What is the capital city of Assyria?
13. What is the world’s first story?
14. What are some of the things the Sumerians are known for?
15. What was the center of Sumerian civilization?
16. What was the name of “paradise” in the Epic of Gilgamesh?
17. What does the video claim might be an actual “Garden of Eden” and why do they
think it is so?