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Geography
100
wearing away of soil by wind and water
What is erosion?
100
a written collection of laws that apply to the people ruled by one government
What is Code of Law?
100
people began farming in the Fertile Crescent because...
What is the soil was rich?
100
Assyrian women had no legal rights and cared for their families while Assyrian men...
What is were famous as hunters, soldiers, and government leaders?
100
mountains where Tigris and Euphrates Rivers begin
What is Taurus Mountains?
200
long periods without rain
What is drought?
200
land between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
What is Mesopotamia?
200
the most important invention of the Sumer people
What is a writing system called cuneiform?
200
Abraham and Sarah left Ur and traveled ....
What is to a land called Canaan where God made a covenant with Abraham?
200
area of fetile soil between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
What is Mesopotamia?
300
a raised waterway
What is aqueduct?
300
belief in many gods and goddess
What is polytheism?
300
a self-governing city that also governs nearby villages
What is city-state?
300
God gave Moses the first five books of the Hebrew Bible at
What is Mount Sinai?
300
body of water that the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers empty into
What is Persian Gulf?
400
a group of lands and people ruled by one government
What is empire?
400
a special agreement that marked the beginning of Jewish history?
What is covenant?
400
Sargon was able to spread his kingdom because
What is he was able to send messages and new laws across his kingdom?
400
the laws that God gave Moses
What is the Ten Commandments?
400
Mountain where Moses received the 10 Commandments
What is Mount Sinai?
500
an offical writer who recorded laws, legends and songs
What is scribe?
500
belief in only one God
What is monotheism?
500
King Hammurabi built dams across the Euphrates River that gave him this
What is power to control the river's flow and cause droughts or floods?
500
Egyptian farmers used this to water their plants
What is irrigation?
500
body of water south of Mount Sinai
What is Red Sea?