Vocab: What's the Term?
Cities that rule themselves and the land around them.
City-States
City-States
Cities that rule themselves and the land around them.
__________________________ is a land in the Fertile Crescent located between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.
Mesopotamia
The founder of the Hebrew people was a man named _______________________.
Abraham
Mesopotamian Peoples:
The _________________ knew how to make iron weapons and tools.
Hittites
First written laws.
Code of Hammurabi
10 Commandments
The Hebrew laws given to Moses.
Sumerians invented one of the earliest forms of ____________________ called cuneiform.
Writing
The Hebrews founded the nation of _________________________.
Israel
Mesopotamian Peoples:
The __________________were great sailors and traders.
Phoenicians
The world's first system of writing.
Cuneiform
Torah
The first five books of Jewish Scripture/Bible.
The Code of Hammurabi was a collection of over 250 _____________________ the people of Mesopotamia had to obey.
laws
There is a famous story that tells of a Hebrew boy named __________________who defeated a giant Philistine warrior named Goliath suing a slingshot and stone.
David
Mesopotamian Peoples:
Sargon conquered all the lands of Mesopotamia and led the _______________________ civilization.
Akkadian
The Hebrew religion with a belief in one god.
Judaism
Code of Hammurabi
First written laws.
Around 5,000 BC, the civilization of ________________began to develop.
Sumer
When Solomon died, the nation of Israel was divided into 2 parts, Israel in the North and ________________in the South.
Judah
Outline how a Sumerian City-State was structured by filling in the blanks below:
At the center was a _____________________.
Around the ziggurat was the ____________________.
The city was surrounded by a ______________________.
Finally, all of this was surrounded by ____________________.
1. Ziggurat
2. City
3. Wall
4. Farmland
A large area of good farmland in the Middle East.
Fertile Crescent
Cuneiform
The world's first system of writing.
The Assyrians became a powerful empire in Mesopotamia and were _____________________rulers.
cruel
King __________________was most known for building the Holy Temple of Jerusalem.
Solomon
Which of these things happened first:
A: Abraham, the first leader of the Hebrews traveled to Canaan around 2,0000 BC.
B: Assyrians conquered Hebrew Lands in 600 BC
A: Abraham, the first leader of the Hebrews traveled to Canaan around 2,0000 BC.