Land Between Two Rivers
Babylonia and Assyria
The Legacy of Mesopotamia
Mediterranean Civilizations
Judaism
100
The belief in many gods.
What is polytheism?
100
Chaldeans and Medes
What is Who over threw Assyria?
100
Was Hammurabi's code fair to everyone
no
100
did not have many resources nor much land to farm on, so used these to trade.
What are purple dye from snails and cedar wood?
100
The "Promise Land"
What is Canaan?
200
The land that reaches from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf, in a roundish kind of shape, with lots of fertile land.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
200
Reason why Babylon was a crossroads of trade.
What is its location?
200
Firste set of written laws that applied to everyone, also written down
What is Hammurabi's Code?
200
Did this to keep other empires from traveling by sea.
What is made stories/myths of monsters?
200
The civilization that conquered all of Canaan
Who are the Israelites?
300
Traditional stories that explain people's beliefs
What are myths?
300
Allowed Sumerians to keep records and people of different languages to communicate
What is the importance of the art of writing?
300
The Leader of the Israelites before Moses.
Who is Abraham?
300
The Israelites were enslaved for this reason.
Because the Egyptian king grew Jealous of their wealth.
400
The location of Sumer
What is Mesopotamia?
400
Developed in Mesopotamia in about 3,500 BC
What is writing?
400
Built an empire through sea trading
who are the is phoenecians?
400
The two kings who helped the Israelites conquer all of Canann
Who are Saul and David?
500
The Geographis features that helped civilizations develop in Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
500
CApital City known for its libraries.
What is Nineveh?
500
The reason a system of laws were developed.
What is need for a set of rules for society to follow.
500
The belief in one God
What is Monotheism?
500
The promise between God and Abraham and the Israelites
What is the covenent?
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