Mesopotamia 1
an extended family unit
What is a tribe?
More than is needed.
What is a surplus?
The belief in many gods
What is polytheism?
A forced removal from one's country
What is exile?
a religious agreement with God
What is a covenant?
Aside from shipbuilding, purple dye and cedar trees, Phoenicians were known for this
What is the Phoenician alphabet?
Hammurabi's Code had this many laws
What is 282?
Studying the sun, moon and stars helped Sumerians develop this
What is the calendar?
God told Abraham to settle here
What is Canaan?
The Father of the Jewish people
Who is Abraham?
The people of Sumer thought that floods and natural disasters were signs of what?
What is the gods were angry with them?
Sumerian people believed this lived at the top of the ziggurat
What is a deity(god or goddess)?
The invention that led to: carts, wagons, & pottery
What is the wheel?
This person freed the Jews and encouraged them to rebuild Judah
Cyrus the Great
The movement of Jews around the world
What is the Diaspora?
The largest building in most Sumerian cities
What is a ziggurat?
earliest form of writing
What is Cuneiform ?
"the teachings"
What is the Torah?
God gave Moses The Ten Commandments here
What is Mount Sinai?
This king built a magnificent temple in Jerusalem
Who is Solomon?
System of canals bringing water to the land
What is irrigation?
2 ways Sargon was about to unite his empire
-allowed people to keep local customs and rulers
-introduced standard weights and measures
-created policies to help keep the peace throughout the empire
3 reasons city-states went to war with each other
What is protecting fertile land, limited natural resources, and profitable trade routes?
The first King of Israel
Who is Saul?
2 ways Darius I ruled the Persian Empire wisely
-divided empire in 20 provinces
-had satraps run each province
-built the Royal Road and unified the empire
-introduced currency to make trade and paying taxes easier