Vocabulary
Fertile Crescent
Terms
Places
Miscellaneous
100
Belief in many gods.
What is polytheism?
100
Rivers important to the Fertile Crescent.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
100
This was written during King Solomon's reign.
What is the Torah?
100
A region in southern Mesopotamia.
What is Sumer?
100
A self governing city that also governs nearby villages.
What is a city- state?
200
A loose soil carried by water.
What is silt?
200
The region between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.
What is Mesopotamia?
200
The scattering of Jewish people was called this.
What is the Diaspora?
200
An invention from the Sumerians.
What is the wheeled vehicle or cuneiform?
200
A group of lands and government ruled by one government.
What is an empire?
300
Long periods without rain.
What is drought?
300
The Fertile Crescent is located on this continent.
What is Asia?
300
A written collection of the laws that apply to the people ruled by one government.
What is a code of law?
300
A large kingdom to the north of Sumer.
What is Assyria?
300
A flattened pyramid made of mud-brick.
What is a ziggurat?
400
The wearing away of soil by wind or water.
What is erosion?
400
The rich soil of the Fertile Crescent led to this.
What is farming?
400
The fact that all Sumerians were not equal is evident in this.
What is Hammurabi's Code of Law?
400
Reunited the city-states of Sumer.
Who was Hammurabi?
400
A raised waterway.
What is an aqueduct?
500
An official writer.
What is a scribe?
500
A wall that keeps a river within its banks.
What is a levee?
500
A diagram of events arranged in order.
What is a time line?
500
Where Moses received the Ten Commandments.
What is Mt. Sinai?
500
A system of canals to bring water to crops is called this.
What is irrigation?