| A | B |
|---|
| Hittites | occupied Babylon, iron smelting, semi-nomadic from Central Asia |
| Assyrians | empire reached from Anatolia, Ayria, Palestine, and Egype, across Armenia and Mesopotamia into Persia (mod. day Iran) |
| First to use iron techonology adopted from the Hittites | Assyrians |
| Conquered Babylon | Assyrians |
| Accomplishments in math and astronomy | Assyrians |
| Wailing Wall | believed to be the remains of King Solomon's Temple |
| Wailing Wall is named because | Jews have shed so many tears there |
| What story is told in the Gospels? | The story of Jesus' life |
| How does Christianity apply to Judaism? | Christians believe that Jesus was the Mesiah promised in Jewish Scripture |
| Who was the founder of Islam? | Muhammad |
| What is the Qur'an | the collection of God's revelations to Muhammad |
| Why were the leaders of Mecca threatened by Muhammad's teachings? | He criticized the wealthe, encouraged people to worship one God |
| Abrahams descendents are known as | Jews and their religious belief is Judaism |
| The Hebrew people believed in a God they called | Yahweh |
| According to Islam, who revealed the will of God to Muhammad? | the angel Gabriel |
| A believer in Islam is called a | Muslim |
| What do Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have in common? | They all believe in one God |
| What role did Jesus' disciples play in establishing Christianity? | They spread his teachings and the belief that he was the Messiah |
| What does the Qur'an contain? | God's relelations to Muhammad |
| What two sites are holy to Jews, Christians and Muslims? | Haifa and Jerusalem |
