Vocabulary
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Scribes
Why were people attracted to settle in Mesopotamia
It had rich soil
Name of Hammurabi's laws
Hammurabi Codes
How were Phoenicians able to keep other people from trying to compete for trade int he waters
Came back with stories about the horrible monsters they saw in the ocean
During Abrahams time there was a famine. Where did the Israelites go to escape the famine
Egypt
Polytheism
Belief of many Gods
True or False.
Sumerian did not have scribes
False
Assyrians invented a weapon that could destroy city walls
Battering Ram
Cuneiform was complicated so the Phoenicians created a way where there would be one sound and one letter
Phonecian Alphabet
People who lived as shepherds and merchants outside of Sumerian cities
Israelites
Forced to live in another country
Exile
What was the name of the Temple that they had in Sumer to adore their many Gods?
Ziggurat
Babylonian king who united the the cities of Sumer
Hammurabi
Who rebuilt the city of Babylon
Nebuchadnezzar II
What was the job of a prophet
Told the Israelites what God wanted them to do
Independent, self-governing country contained totally within the borders of a single city.
What are negatives living near a river
Flooding
Nineveh had tablets in its library from two Empires
Sumer and Babylon
New Babylonian rose again under the
Chaldeans
Israelites lived well for 600 years in Egypt. Why did the Egyptian king enslaved them
Israelites believed God made an agreement with Abraham
Covenant
What was the downfall of Sumer?
Wealth and fought over their land use
What are two things that made Babylon rich
Trade and Conquest
Location where they sold dye at extremely high prices and made them wealthy
Tyre
5 Books
Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy