People & Places
A region in Southwest Asia; site of the first civilizations
What is the Fertile Crescent?
People who drive a chariot
Who are charioteers?
The belief in one god
What is monotheism?
The capital of Babylonia
What is Babylon?
A professional writer
What is a scribe?
A city that is also a separate, independent state.
What is a city-state?
Many territories and peoples controlled by one government
What is an empire?
An organized list of laws and rules
What is a code?
What is polytheism?
An Israelite leader credited with leading the Israelites from Egypt to Canaan.
Who is Moses?
A slab of stone or clay used to record writing.
What is a tablet?
A traditional story that can explain people's beliefs
What is a myth?
The scattering of people who have a common background or belief
What is a diaspora?
A powerful weapon with a wooden beam mounted on wheels
What is a battering ram?
A religious leader who is regarded as someone who speaks for God or for a god
What is a prophet?
The creator of the Babylonian Empire
Who is Hammurabi?
A set of symbols that represent the sounds of a language
What is an alphabet?
What is a famine?
A group of traders traveling together
What is a caravan?
Groups of wedges and lines used to write several languages of the Fertile Crescent.
What is Cuneiform?
A promise made by God
What is a covenant?
One of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
What are the Hanging Gardens of Babylon?
Letters in the alphabet that represent sounds with vocal stops
What is a consonant?
To force someone to live in another country
What is exile?
A market selling different kinds of goods
What is a Bazaar?
A terraced pyramid that was the center of religious life in Mesopotamia
What is a ziggurat?
A religious law from God
What is a commandment?
The religious text of Judaism
What is the Torah?
Letters in the alphabet that represent sounds with no vocal stops
A mass departure of people.
What is an exodus?