GEOGRAPHY
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Means worshipers of many gods.
Polytheists
Means rule by one city or people over other cities or peoples.
Empire
Extraordinary leader that united all of Mesopotamia under his rule.
Hammurabi
Towers built in tiers or stages.
Ziggurats
Two great rivers surrounding Sumer.
Tigris and Euphrates
Who was Shamash?
The sun god.
Means "scattering of people over the earth".
Dispersion
Became the only hope for the continued existence of the human race.
Noah
First people in world history known to have used the wheel.
Sumerians
Place known because of its ability to grow crops.
Fertile Crescent
Who was Anu for Sumerians?
The god of the sky.
Define bureaucracy.
An organized group of people appointed by a ruler to help him govern.
List the Patriarchs.
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob
Wedge-shaped writing.
Cuneiform
Known as the last battleground of world history.
Megiddo or Armageddon
What means the term monotheist?
Worshiper of one god.
Man´s special characteristics
Language and thought, Awareness of the difference between right and wrong, and Freedom to make choices.
Man selected by God to become the father of the nation of Israel.
Abraham
Define the term Laws.
Rules people follow in living together.
Means "land between the rivers".
Mesopotamia
Was the chief god of the Canaanites.
Baal
Name the two cities God destroyed because their sins went to the extreme.
Sodom and Gomorrah
Who was Nimrod?
A descendant of Noah´s son Ham.
What civilization construct canals, dams, and dikes for irrigation and flood control?
Sumerians