Key Terms
Geographic Settings
Babylonia & Assyria
Phoenicia & Israel
Judaism
100
The belief in many gods
What is monotheism?
100
This is where Sumerians worshipped.
What are ziggurats?
100
The center of the Babylonian Empire.
What is Babylon?
100
This made it easier for people of the ancient world to learn to read and write.
What is the Phoenician alphabet.
100
A binding agreement.
What is covenant?
200
An organized list of laws and rules.
What is code?
200
This word means "between the rivers."
What is Mesopotamia?
200
Invented by the Assyrians as a powerful weapon used to pound through city walls.
What is battering ram?
200
These people settled in the hills around the Jordan River Valley.
Who are the Israelites?
200
Led the Israelites from Egypt to Canaan.
Who is Moses?
300
A story that explains many people's beliefs.
What is myth?
300
The river located to the East of Mesopotamia.
What is the Tigris River?
300
These were the first set of written laws.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
300
This person led the Israelites from Mesopotamia to Canaan.
Who is Abraham?
300
The reason Judaism differed from other early religions.
What is monotheism?
400
A group of traders traveling together.
What is caravan?
400
This encouraged people to settle in Mesopotamia and develop civilizations.
What are abundant water and fertile soil?
400
Created under the Chaldeans after the conquered the Assyrians.
What is New Babylon?
400
They developed an empire through trade along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea.
Who are the Phoenicians?
400
These two religions have their beginnings in Judaism.
What are Christianity and Islam?
500
The scattering of people who have a common background or beliefs.
What is diaspora?
500
This characterized the cities of Sumer because they were separated by long stretches of desert land.
What are city-states?
500
He rebuilt the city of Babylon after it had been destroyed by the Assyrians.
Who is King Nebuchadnezzar?
500
In 722 BC the Israelites resisted the rule of these people and as a consequence, where exiled to distant parts of their empire.
Who are the Assyrians?
500
The core beliefs of Judaism.
What are the Ten Commandments?
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