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Which two rivers are in the Fertile Crescent?
Tigris and Euphrates
What were the two largest cities in Assyria?
Ashur and Nineveh
Hammurabi was the king of which city-state?
Babylon
What made the region around the rivers good for farming?
silt
Was the Code of Hammurabi fair to everyone?
No, laws were more severe for damage done to citizens than slaves.
What did Sumerian people do for fun?
Played board games, enjoyed music, danced at festivals, had parades, and made up and told stories.
How did Moses help the Jews?
He led them out of Egypt and out of slavery? He was also a prophet for their God.
What was the center of Sumerian life?
religion
Which set of laws became the core of Jewish religion and teachings?
The Ten Commandments
What kind of house did poor Sumerians live in?
What did God give to Moses at Mount Sinai?
The Torah
What civilization first developed between the major rivers in the Fertile Crescent?
Mesopotamia
What made Judaism different than the surrounding religions?
The Jews practiced monotheism (belief in one god) whereas everyone else practiced polytheism (belief in more than one god).
How could you identify a slave in Sumer?
They had special haircuts.
What was an aqueduct?
A raised waterway that transports water.
The covenant between which people marked the beginning of Jewish history?
God and Abraham
Why did the Jews migrate to Egypt?
There was a terrible hunger/famine in Canaan.
Sumerian children started working from a young age. Who taught them their craft?
Their parents
What is the capital city of Israel?
Jerusalem
What was the Code of Hammurabi?
A collection of laws he made for his empire.
A belief in more than one god is called what?
polytheism
Why did Hammurabi make sure his laws were spread all over his empire?
So the people would know the law and obey it.
Why was Assyria able to conquer their neighbors so easily?
They used special battering rams and towers on wheels and were one of the first to use horse drawn chariots.
What was the Sumerians greatest invention?
cuneiform
What are two words that describe the descendants of Abraham and Sarah?
Jews and Israelites