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100
Curved region known as the middle east, strip of rich, well-watered land.
What is Fertile Crescent?
100
By 1700 B.C the ______ conquered all of Sumer and Mesopotamia.
What is Babylonians?
100
A widespread lack of food.
What is famine?
100
The Hebrews practiced this religion, belief in one god
What is monotheism?
100
Sumerians invented their own system of writing, written on clay tablets using a stylus.
What is cuneiform?
200
The land where Sumerians lived.
What is Sumer?
200
One of the greatest lawgivers of ancient history, Babylonian ruler
What is Hammurabi?
200
When farmers produce an extra supply of food.
What is a surplus?
200
Egyptians and Mesopotamians belief in many gods.
What is polytheism?
200
This religion is followed by more than 17 million people known as Jews.
What is Judaism?
300
Hebrews settled here until Famine struck, before moving to Egypt for food.
What is Canaan?
300
Leader whom rose among Hebrews in Egypt. He had been raised in the Pharaohs palace.
What is Moses?
300
Large landmass that is connected to a continent.
What is subcontinent?
300
The spirits of family, or the people from whom one is descended from, were special people
What is ancestors?
300
What happened to the Hebrews while they were in Egypt?
What is slavery?
400
Most important building in Sumer, brought each city-state closer to god.
What is Ziggurat?
400
System of laws still used today were formed by
What is Hammurabi?
400
Self-governing city and the lands surrounding it.
What is city-state?
400
Why is the Huang River known as "China's Sorrow?"
What is Terrible floods washed away crops causing famine.
400
God gave Moses the laws known as the ___ __________.
What is Ten Commandments?
500
River Valley meaning "land between two rivers." This place suffered dangerous summer droughts.
What is Mesopotamia?
500
Dynasty that built a great city.
What is Shang Dynasty?
500
questions were written on these to be answered by gods.
What is Oracle Bones?
500
Compare and contrast cuneiform and hieroglyphics
What is (Answers will vary)
500
Explain what happened with Solomon in Jerusalem with the two women fighting over a baby.
What is (answers may vary) He gave the second woman the baby because she wouldn't allow her baby to be killed, she would rather someone else care for it if that was going to happen.