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Misc.
Vocabulary
100
King of Babylon dammed parts of the Euphrates River and attacked the Sumerians
What is Hammurabi
100
A ziggurat is a place where people go to...
What is Worship a special god or goddess
100
A belief in one god
What is monotheism
200
He was an important hero to the Sumerians
What is Gilgamesh
200
There were two natural causes that made farming in Mesopotamia difficult, what were they?
What is droughts and irregular floods
200
A large building with a temple on its peak
What is ziggurat
300
According to the Bible, the history of the Jewish people began when this man traveled to Canaan and made a covenant, or agreement, with God
What is Abraham
300
Why was the city of Nineveh so important
What is It became the capital city of Babylonia
300
A system of writing invented in Sumer in called
What is Cuneiform
400
According to the Bible, this Hebrew prophet grew up in Egypt and traveled to Mount Sinai, where he was given the Torah
What is Moses
400
Where was Nineveh?
What is Northern Mesopotamia
400
The scattering of Jews to many parts of the world
What is Diaspora
500
A code of laws is a written set of laws that apply to everyone under a government is named after this person
What is Hammurabi (Code of Hammurabi)
500
How do cause-and-effect connections help historians understand the past?
What is It helps historians understand the past
500
An area of elevated flatland is called a....
What is plateau
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