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What city was the capital of Babylonia, a city of great wealth and luxury?
What is Babylonia?
100
This is a group of traders traveling together.
What is a caravan?
100
The scattering of people who have a common background or beliefs is called what?
What is a diaspora?
100
This word means the belief in one god.
What is monotheism?
100
Name one of the two rivers that border Mesopotamia.
What is the Tigris and Euphrates?
200
Name the region in Southwest Asia that was the site of the first civilizations?
What is the Fertile Crescent?
200
This is an organized list of laws and rules.
What is a code?
200
Many territories and peoples controlled by one government is called this.
What is an empire?
200
The laws that Israelites believe Gods gave them through Moses are called what?
What is The Ten Commandments?
200
What is the name of the huge square building, sort of like a pyramid.
What is a ziggurat?
300
He was the King of Babylon from about 1792-1750 BC; creator of the Babylonia Empire
Who was Hammurabi?
300
This is a promise made by God to people.
What is a covenant?
300
This is a traditional story; in some cultures, a legend that explains people's beliefs.
What is a myth?
300
Name one of the two religions Judaism had and important influence on.
What is Christianity or Islam.
300
This is the word that means a set of symbols that represent the sounds of a language.
What is alphabet?
400
This is the name for a religious leader who is regarded as someone who speaks for God or a god.
What is a prophet?
400
This is an ancient form of writing.
What is cuneiform?
400
This is a market selling different kinds of goods.
What is a bazaar?
400
The early Israelites recorded events and laws in a text called what?
What is The Torah?
400
The Sumerians built these to control rivers.
What are levees.
500
This is a city that is also an independent state.
What is a city-state?
500
This word means "a time when there is so little food that many people starve."
What is famine?
500
What is the word that means the ability to tame wild animals?
What is domestication?