What are the followers of the Islam religion called?
Muslim
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What are the nicknames?
“Fertile Crescent”, “The Land Between the Rivers” , “The Cradle of Civilization”
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What are the 4 main groups of people?
The Assyrians, the Hebrews, The Sumerians, and the Babylonians
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What were the main foods that were grown
Fish, beans, wheat, barley, and corn.
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What is the smallest portion of the society
King and Priest
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What is the difference between monotheistic and polytheistic?
Monotheistic: belief in only one god. Polytheistic: belief in many gods.
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What is the climate like?
Hot
Dry
Occasional Rainstorms
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Who are the Assyrians?
a fierce warrior kingdom that lived upstream on the Tigris River conquered the Babylonians, first to use the battery ram, iron, chain mail, cavalry, and leather boots.
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How much hunting and gathering is there?
Not much
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What jobs are considered "second class"
Scribe, Government, Artisans, Merchants
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What is Torah?
The Jews holiest book
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What is a levee?
gated channels to prevent flooding
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Who were the Hebrews? (Be specific)
First monotheistic group of people
Exiled from Mesopotamia and in 1492 they were exiled from Spain
Enslaved in Egypt
Crossed the Red Sea with Moses
1948 Israel was created as a Jewish homeland
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What did the Sumerians invent for farming?
levees
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Who was Nebuchadnezzar and what did he do for the society?
He recovered Mesopotamia from the Assyrians
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What is Islam (Be specific)
The religion which teaches that there is only one God and that Muhammad is God's prophet. Started by Muhammad.
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What are the two rivers that Mesopotamia is between?
Tigris and Euphrates
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Who is Hammurabi?
The man who created the first written law who ruled Mesopotamia
Created first government and social hierarchy
Created 282 laws
"Eye for an eye" was his falsify
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What is irrigation
Canals from the river to crops for water
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How did Hammurabi's laws affect the people?
His falsify was "eye for an eye"
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What did polytheistic represent?
Heavens, River, Sun, Fresh Water, Earth
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What are some Mesopotamian Inventions
first to use the wheel, writing, cavalry, battering ram, calendar, laws, levee, farming, astronomy, improved mathematics, improved medicine,
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How was the Mesopotamian Civilization different than the people before them?
Invented many useful things to help with work
First organized civilization
They built city-states
They had the first system of writing
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What is fasting?
To not eat
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What are the two main groups of people fighting for the land in Israel?