Mesopotamia
Babylonia
Phoenicians
Judaism
Vocabulary
100
Two rivers bordering the Fertile Crescent
What is the Tigris and Euphrates.
100
Babylonian ruler in 1787
Who is Hammurabi
100
two products the Phoenicians sold
What is Purple cloth & Cedar trees
100
Israelites believed in one religion therefore they were called________.
What is Monotheistic.
100
Record Keeper
What is a Scribe
200
This brought rich soil to the Fertile Crescent every spring
What is a flood
200
This is what Scribes used to write on
What is clay
200
Something we adapted from the Phoenicians and use as our own
What is the alphabet
200
Rules passed down to the Israelites.
What is The Ten Commandments
200
Vast area controlled by one single government
What is an Empire
300
Most prosperous city in Mesopotamia and its downfall was its wealth
What is Sumer
300
This made controlling the Babylonian empire much easier
What are roads, good military, solid leadership
300
Reason the alphabet was such a large impact
What is universal understanding or language - communication
300
The world's very first monotheistic religion
What is Judiasm
300
Forced to move away
What is Exile
400
Sumerians were ___________ because they believed in many gods.
What is Monotheistic
400
System of Laws used. "Eye for an Eye"
What is Hammurabi's Code
400
Body of water the Phoenicians used to trade
What is the Mediterranean Sea
400
Two religions which were formed out of Judaism.
What is Islam & Christianity
400
Shortage of Food
What is a Famine
500
Negative effects from flooding
What is death, destruction of homes, not consistant
500
The people who conquered Babylonia
Who are the Assyrians or Persians
500
Number of Phoenician letters in the Alphabet
What is 22
500
People who told the Israelites how to live
Who are the Prophets
500
System of writing using symbols and lines
What is Cuneiform
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