Vocabulary
The wearing away of soil by wind or water
Erosion
Tall flattened pyramid made of mud brick
Ziggurat
A small city in Mesopotamia
Sumer
What was Assyria known as before?
Ashur
Jews early history and their religion
Judaism
Loose soil carried by water
Silt
Empire
Who was the Sumerian Preistess?
Enheduana
The two largest cities were Ashur and ____
Nineveh
The Jewish people are decendents of a family that lived in the city state of Ur telling us about a man named _____.
Abraham
Earliest writing system in the world with laws, letters and records
Cuneiform
A written collection of laws that apply to the people who are ruled by one government
Code of Law
Famous King of the city-state called Kish
Sargon
Southern Mesopotamia's king that built dams across the Euphrates River
Hammurabi
a special agreement between God
Covenant
Official writer
Scribe
Aqueduct
Gilgamesh
The empire of Babylon
Babylonia
Who lead the Israelites?
Moses
self-governing city that also governs nearby villages
city-states
A person who speaks for God
Prophet
How did the lives of the poor compare to the wealthy?
With the poor everyone worked, and the rich had servants
When was the Code of Hammurabi written?
About 1800 B.C
Scattering Jews away from their homeland