Vocabulary
People
Places
Religion
Landforms
100
rich soil
What is fertile?
100
King of Uruk; wanted to live forever
Who is Gilgamesh?
100
Known as The Fertile Crescent
What is Mesopotamia?
100
worship of one God
What is monotheism?
100
Mesopotamia stretched from the eastern shores of the Mediterannean Sea between the
What is Tigris & Euphrates Rivers?
200
an area of high, flat land
What is a plateau?
200
an Akkadian ruler; his empire stretched from "the sunrise to the sunset"
Who is Sargon?
200
it became the center of culture and learning; a hanging garden was built here in the desert
What is Babylon?
200
worship of many gods
What is polytheism?
200
Mesopotamia of the Fertile Crescent is also known as
What is "the land between the rivers"
300
an agreement
What is covenant?
300
King of Babylon; made a code of laws
Who is Hammurabi?
300
People from this area placed high value on war and conquest, or defeat, of another group
What is Assyria?
300
He was known as the founder of Judaism, one of the first monotheistic religions
Who is Abraham?
300
Before they could start farming, the people needed to solve the problem of low rainfall with a system known as
What is irrigation?
400
wedge-shaped writing
What is cuneiform?
400
a woman prophet, as well as a judge in Hebrew Society
Who is Deborah?
400
People from this land were excellent sea traders and sailors
What is Phoenicia?
400
This contains the first five books of the Hebrew Bible; it is against Jewish law to touch the parchment when reading it
What is the Torah?
400
King Nebuchednezzar II had this built in the desert for his queen who missed her homeland. It became one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
What is the Hanging Gardens of Babylon?
500
a series of stacked rectangular platforms that formed a huge pyramid-shaped structure
What is ziggurat?
500
He was king of Babylon & ordered massive building projects that made the city great and glorious
Who is Nebuchednezzar II
500
People from this land minted the region's first coins
What is Lydia?
500
Jewish houses of worship
What is a synagogue?
500
The rivers provide a fresh source of these two things that was necessary for human settlement
What is food and water?
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