Mesopotamia
The land between two rivers
What is Mesopotamia?
Long periods without rain
What is drought?
This was an important invention made by the Sumerians.
What is Cuneiform?
This place is located 400 miles north of Sumer.
One of the leaders of the Israelites.
Who is Moses?
These were work animals that produced milk and meat.
What is cattle?
Loose soil carried by water
A self governing city that also governs nearby villages.
What is a city-state?
Babylon had a king with the name of what.
Who is Hammurabi?
God gave Moses the Torah on this mountain.
What is Mount Sinai.
Tigris and Euphrates were the names of these two things.
What are rivers?
An official writer who was trained.
This is the belief in many gods.
What is polytheism?
These people had no legal rights as Assyrian citizens.
What is Monotheism?
The wearing away of soil by wind or water.
What is erosion?
A tall, flattened pyramid made of mud-brick.
What is a ziggurat?
A group of lands and people ruled by one government.
What is an empire?
These people were best known to be hunters, soldiers, and government leaders.
Who are men?
A set of laws that God gave Moses.
What are the Ten Commandments?
Ancient people altered their environment with these to help their farming.
What is irrigation and leves?
A special agreement between two people.
What is a covenant?
Scribes recorded these things.
What are songs, legends, and laws?
The code of law was also called this.
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
A time when people are scattered away from their homeland.
What is a diaspora?