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100
In Greek, this is a word meaning "land between two rivers."
What is Mesopotamia?
100
Is a belief in only one god.
What is Monotheism?
100
He is a king of ancient Babylon, who is said to have written one of the world's first written codes of law.
Who is Hammurabi?
100
This is a written set of laws that apply to everyone under a government.
What is a Code of Law?
100
This is a belief in many gods.
What is polytheism?
200
A river in southwestern Asia that flows through the eastern of the Fertile Crescent.
What is the Tigris River?
200
According to the Hebrew Bible, this is the agreement Abraham made with his god that marked the beginning of Judaism.
What is the covenant?
200
He is a prophet who led the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt.
Who is Moses?
200
This is a long period of dry weather.
What is a drought?
200
This is an area of elevated flat land.
What is a plateau?
300
A river in southwestern Asia that flows through the southern part of the Fertile Crescent.
What is the Euphrates River?
300
This is the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, which hold the teachings and laws of Judaism.
What is the Torah?
300
According to the Hebrew Bible these two are the first people to talk to God.
Who are Abraham & Sarah?
300
This is a building that was built in the middle of Sumerian city-states that was a place where business and religion took place.
What is a Ziggurat?
300
This is about how many symbols cuneiform used.
What is 500?
400
A group of ancient city-states in southern Mesopotamia; the earliest civilization in Mesopotamia.
What is Sumer?
400
This is a weekly day of rest, prayer, and study.
What is the sabbath?
400
He was the king of the city-state of Kish. He united the city-states of Sumer to form an empire.
Who is Sargon?
400
This is a system of writing developed in ancient Sumer that used wedge-shaped symbols to represent words, sounds, and ideas.
What is Cuneiform?
400
This is the reason the Israelites left Canaan to go to Egypt.
What is hunger?
500
These four modern day countries were covered by the Fertile Crescent.
What are: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Israel?
500
This is the celebration that people take part in annually that celebrates the Israelites being freed from slavery in Egypt.
What is Passover?
500
She is the Sumerian goddess of lave and war. He is the Sumerian god of water.
Who are Ishtar and Enki?
500
This is the spreading of Jews to many places around the world.
What is the Diaspora?
500
Because of laws written for these people, Hammurabi's code of law was not fair.
What are slaves and poor people?