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Vocabulary
Fertile Crescent
Sumer
Babylon
Judaism
100
A self governing city that also governs surrounding villages.
What is a city-state?
100
The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
What are the two rivers that made life in the Fertile Crescent possible?
100
Sharp reeds and wet clay tablets.
What are the items used to record records?
100
This ruler created a set of laws for those in his empire.
Who is Hammurabi?
100
The religion of the Jewish people.
What is Judaism?
200
A large building with a temple on its peak.
What is a ziggurat?
200
An area of elevated flatland.
What is a plateau?
200
To gain control of river water
Why did city-states go to war with eachother?
200
A written set of laws that apply to everyone under a government.
What are codes of law?
200
This event is considered by the Jewish people to be the beginning of their history.
What is the covenant?
300
The scattering of the Jews to many parts of the world.
What is Diaspora?
300
They created water control and irrigation systems.
What did the farmers do to control the amount of water that reached their fields?
300
Laws, letters, records, stories, instructions, riddles, and proverbs.
What are the items that could be shared with the development of cuneiform?
300
He flooded the Euphrates River. When the Sumerians were weak he attacked them.
What is the method Hammurabi used to take over Sumer?
300
The day of the Sabbath.
What is Saturday?
400
The weekly day of rest, prayer, and study.
What is the Sabbath?
400
The body of water that the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers empty into.
What is the Persian Gulf?
400
This is the king of the city-state Kish who expanded his empire to the northern end of the Fertile Crescent.
Who is Sargon?
400
The death of Hammurabi.
What is the reason that Babylonia fell apart?
400
These teachings became the core of the Jewish religion.
What are the Ten Commandments?
500
Belief in many gods and goddesses.
What is polytheism?
500
wheat, barley, vegetables and fruits.
What are the crops grown in ancient Mesopotamia?
500
Boys and very rarely girls.
Who spent years studying to be scribes?
500
This structure contained over 200 laws created by Hammurabi.
What is a stone pillar?
500
This belief set the Israelites apart from other people living in the Fertile Crescent.
What is monotheism?