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The Fertile Crescent
Key Terms #1
Key Terms #2
Key Terms # 3
Important People and Places
100
What key resources did the Fertile Crescent have?
Water, Fertile Soil
100
What is a professional writer?
Scribe
100
a group of travelers coming and going from the cities of Sumer to the South and Akkad to the North, stopped in Babylon.
What is a caravan?
100
the belief in one God. Mono is a Greek word that means "one". Theism refers to gods
What is monotheism
100
the person who made a binding agreement with God
Who is Abraham
200
Name the most important plant in the crescent at that time
What is barley
200
What is a city with its own special god or goddess, its own government and eventually its own king
City-State
200
An organized list
What is a code?
200
a time when there is very little food to eat and many people starve
What is famine
200
a judge during Israelite history
Who is Deborah
300
What was the first set of laws (besides the ten commandments)
What is Hammurabi's Code
300
poly is a Greek word that means "many". Theism refers to gods. So its the belief in many gods
Polytheism
300
a form of writing used in the Fertile Crescent that uses groups of wedges and lines
What is Cuneiform
300
to force people to live in another country
What is exile
300
King of Babylon; united Sumer; cruel; many achievements
Who is Hammurabi
400
In Mesopotamia name the rankings used in order. (5 at least)
What is: 1. King 2. Queen 3. Royal 4. Royal Court 5. Priests 6. Nobles 7. Regular People 8. Slaves
400
Stories that explain peoples beliefs
What is myths
400
a market where there’s cotton cloth from India and spices from Egypt
What is a bazaar
400
a binding agreement
What is covenant
400
the land between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers. Also a place of inhabitant in ancient times.
What is Mesopotamia
500
What would you change about the crescents ways, and regulations, why?
Answers vary
500
an area of many territories and people that are controlled by one government.
What is empire
500
a set of symbols that represent the sounds of a language
What is the alphabet
500
Religious leader
What is a prophet
500
the most famous city from ancient Mesopotamia whose ruins lie in modern-day, center of trade in the olden days
What is Babylon