Video Guide: Lost Civilizations---MESOPOTAMIA 1. Which three civilizations are the focus of this video? __________________________ _________________________ ________________________

2. Which present-day country contains the region in which they were located? _______________

3. Among other things, what did the Dead Sea Scrolls contain? ______________________________

____________________________ and in what time period were they created? ________________

___________________________________________________ 4. Why was the Moabite stone important? 5. Where--and in what sort of political situation--was the bible first put in writing? What purpose did writing it serve? 6. What sorts of punishments did Hammurabi’s Code (of laws) include?

How was it like other moral/legal codes?

7. What was Laird’s greatest discovery at Ninevah? 8. What do the bible and Senacherab’s accounts of the Assyrian attack on Jerusalem agree about, and disagree about?

AGREE ABOUT: DISAGREE ABOUT: 9. What did Gilgamesh’s story deal with? ________________________________________________

10. What allows us to know so much about the people of Sumer? __________________________

11. What biblical event did Wooley think he’d found evidence of? ___________________________

12. What were found in the many graves of Dilman, alongside human remains? ______________

13. What place did Mesopotamian legend name as a garden paradise? _______________________