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Vocabulary 1
Vocabulary 2
True or False
Comprehension
Chapter 2 or not
100
A story that explains people's beliefs
myth
100
a time when there is so little food that many people starve
famine
100
True or False: Writing first developed in Phoenicia
False (Writing first developed in Mesopotamia)
100
Mesopotamia was the land between what 2 rivers?
Tigris and Euphrates
100
A group of travelers journeying together
carvan
200
A region in Southwest Asia that was the site of the first civilizations
Fertile Crescent
200
a professional writer
scribe
200
True or False: In 612 B.C. the Medes and Chaldeans joined forces to destroy the Assyrian Empire
True
200
What were the first written set of laws?
Hammurabi's code
200
Why was Hammurabi's code significant?
It was the first written set of laws
300
the belief in many gods
polythesism
300
the belief in one god
monotheism
300
True or False: Babylon was a crossroads of trade because of its location between cities to the south and north
True
300
Each Mesopotamian city-state had its own what?
god or goddess
300
Name one way the people of Mesopotamia benefited from its physical geography?
Rich soil from life giving rivers or it central location for trade
400
Symbols that represent the sounds of a language
alphabet
400
many territories and people controlled by one government
empire
400
True or False: The Phoenicians spread disease and slavery through conquest and trade
False (religion, system of bureaucracy, and science)
400
The Phoenician alphabet made it easier for people of the ancient world to do what?
Learn to read and write
400
What baseball team just won the World Series for the first time since 1908?
Chicago Cubs
500
A binding agreement
covenant
500
Where traders would go to buy different kinds of goods
bazaar
500
True or False: Cuneiform had 22 symbols
False (Cuneiform had over 100 symbols, the Phoenician Alphabet had 22 symbols)
500
What were the Israelites known for that made them unique among ancient peoples?
They believed in one god (monotheistic)
500
Who is Donald Trump's Vice President?
Mike Pence