Vocabulary
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People
Cultures
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100
A professional writer in Mesopotamia.
What is a scribe?
100
Mesopotamia lies between these two rivers.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
100
His code, written for the Old Babylonian Empire, is the first known recorded law.
Who is Hammurabi?
100
This war-loving culture also had an amazing library.l
Who are the Assyrians?
100
It's the Babylonian word for market.
What is a bazaar?
200
This is the first known form of Sumerian writing.
What is cuneiform?
200
This was the first known civilization and included the city of Ur.
What is Sumer?
200
This Akkadian king conquered Sumer and united its city-states.
Who is King Sargon?
200
Their alphabet was so much easier to use that it replaced cuneiform.
Who are the Phoenicians?
200
It's the definition of an empire.
What is an area of many territories and people controlled by one government?
300
Sumerians worshipped in temples, which they called this word.
What is a ziggurat?
300
This kingdom fell to the Assyrians, then rose to power again under King Nebuchadnezzer.
What is Babylonia?
300
This man led the Israelites out of Egypt and into the desert.
Who is Moses?
300
This culture was tolerant of people from different backgrounds, and they freed Jewish slaves who had been held captive in Babylon.
Who are the Persians?
300
It's what the Jews call the first four books of the Old Testament in the Bible.
What is the Torah?
400
This is the worship of many gods.
What is polytheism?
400
This is the capital city of Canaan and the center of the Israelite and Hebrew culture.
What is Jerusalem?
400
This king built the Hanging Gardens of Babylon "for his girl" (his queen).
Who is Nebuchadnezzer?
400
This culture became a major sea power who traded their goods all over the Mediterranean and into the Atlantic Ocean.
Who are the Phoenicians?
400
These are the core beliefs of Judaism.
What are the Ten Commandments?
500
This is the worship of just one god.
What is monotheism?
500
It's the definition of a city-state.
What is a city that is also a state?
500
This Israelite leader took his people from Mesopotamia to Canaan, also known as "the promised land."
Who is Abraham?
500
The Israelite culture had a "binding agreement" with God, also known as this word.
What is a covenant?
500
The area that includes Mesopotamia is shaped like a C, giving the entire region this name.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
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