The Hebrews
Judaism
Writing
Economic Patterns
Social & Political Patterns
100
Belief in one god is called
What is monotheism?
100
What group was the first to believe in one God?
Who are the Jews or Hebrews?
100
Earliest written symbols - instead of letters, they were pictures
What are pictograms?
100
Metal tools and weapons were made out of which two metals during the development of river valley civilizations?
bronze and iron
100
A political pattern on keeping order in cities was to write down ______________, such as Hammurabi did or the Hebrews did with the Ten Commandments.
Laws
200
Rules of moral and religious conduct for Hebrews
What are the Ten Commandments?
200
Who parted the Red Sea, received the Ten Commandments, and led people in exile out of slavery in Egypt?
Moses
200
Writing style that used a stylus to make marks on wet clay. Used in Sumer, a city in Mesopotamia.
What is cuneiform?
200
Which civilization had an economy based on sea and river trade?
the Phoenicians
200
The Persian Empire had what type of government?
An imperial bureaucracy
300
Holy book for the Hebrews/Jews
What is the Torah?
300
The holiest city for Hebrews
Jerusalem
300
Writing of Egyptians, usually on a paper made of papyrus reeds
What are hieroglyphics?
300
Better tools, plows and irrigation for crops are going to increase what ....
agricultural production The more extra food your city has, the better off it is economically!
300
The first civilization made up of independent city-states was _______.
Sumer
400
What are two ways Judaism spread?
exile and the diaspora
400
Whose promise of monotheism became the foundation of Jewish beliefs?
Abraham
400
This was invented by the Phoenicians
The alphabet
400
The Phoenicians produced which expensive good?
Purple dye
400
Which group was at the bottom of the social structure in Mesopotamia?
Slaves
500
Who is called the father of Judaism?
Abraham
500
Like the Code of Hammurabi, the Ten Commandments were a ______________ ____ ______.
written law code
500
What was the written law code of Babylon?
The Code of Hammurabi
500
The Persian Empire developed this to improve trade, travel, and communication
The Royal Road
500
Egyptian Pharaohs were believed to be what?
god-kings
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