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People
Mesopotamia
Babylonia and Assyria
Hebrews
100
Rich soil
Fertile
100
This person may or may not have been a real person and was believed to be the fifth king of Uruk. He was said to be two-thirds god and one-third human
Gilgamesh
100
People in Mesopotamia believed in many gods. What type of religion is this?
Polytheism
100
In Babylonia this set of laws were created to maintain structure. Some believe they were harsh.
Code of Hammurabi
100
This was the name of the religion practiced by the Hebrews
Judaism
200
a huge pyramid-shaped structure that consisted of a series of stacked rectangular platforms.
Ziggurat
200
This king was abandoned as a baby. He was placed in a basket that was thrown into a river. He started as a servant then grew into a king.
Sargon
200
People in Mesopotamia used this type of writing - it consisted of wedge-shaped writing on clay.
Cuneiform
200
Babylonia was located near these two rivers
Euphrates and Tigiris Rivers
200
The Hebrew Bible says that God gave Moses a set of laws known as the...
Ten Commandments
300
to defeat
conquest
300
He was king of Babylon. He was a shrewd, or clever leader who sought great power.
Hammurabi
300
The people in Mesopotamia invented this structure that helped move things around easier and quicker
The wheel
300
This king took over Babylon after Hammurabi
Nebuchadnezzar II
300
The Hebrew bible is called
the Torah
400
the worship of only one god
monotheism Who has tatoos, black hair, and has a problem with dogs?
400
This person lead the Hebrews out of Egypt across the Sinai Desert to freedom.
Moses
500
Blanca
Who is the new student with curly black hair, speaks fluent Spanish, and always asks questions?