Land Between Two Rivers
Babylonia and Assyria
The Legacy of Mesopotamia
Mediterranean Civiliazations
Judaism
100
A professional writer
What is a scribe?
100
A market selling different kinds of goods
What is a bazaar?
100
An organized list of laws and rules
What is a code?
100
This group created the first alphabet
Who are the Phoenicians?
100
A promise made by God
What is a covenant?
200
A region in Southwest Asia; Site of the first civilizations
What is The Fertile Crescent?
200
This group invented the battering ram
What is the Assyrians?
200
The king of Babylon from about 1742-1750 BC; also the creator of the Babylonian Empire
Who is Hammurabi?
200
The Israelites were originally called this
Who are the Hebrews?
200
An Israelite leader whom the Torah credits with leading the Israelites from Egypt to Canaan
Who is Moses?
300
A city that is also a separate, independent state
What is a city-state?
300
A group of traders traveling together
What is a caravan?
300
Groups of wedges and lines used to write several languages of the Fertile Crescent
What is cuneiform?
300
A time when there is so little food that many people starve
What is a famine?
300
A religious teacher who is regarded as someone who speaks for God or for a god
Who is a prophet?
400
The belief in many gods
What is polytheism?
400
An area with many territories and peoples controlled by one government
What is an empire?
400
Hammurabi's Code was based on this idea
What is "an eye for an eye"?
400
The belief in one god
What is monotheism?
400
The scattering of people who have a common background or beliefs
What is diaspora?
500
A traditional story in some cultures,; a legend that explains people's beliefs
What is a myth?
500
The capital of Babylonia; a city of great wealth and luxury
What is Babylon?
500
The people that kept records
What is a scribe?
500
To force someone to live in another country
What is exile?
500
The core beliefs of Judaism
What are the Ten Commandments?
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