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100
The belief that kings were chosen by the gods
What is Divine Kingship
100
The worship of many gods
What is polytheism?
100
Egyptian writing using pictures to represent words
What are hieroglyphs?
100
A tool still used by farmers today
What is the plow?
100
A group of people who have a complex and organized society within a culture
What is a civilization?
200
A city that is an individual unit, complete with its own government and traditions
What is a city-state?
200
These were given daily to gods in polytheistic civilizations.
What are offerings?
200
A form of wedge-shaped writing
What is cuneiform?
200
Ancient Mesopotamians used this to record wise sayings.
What is cuneiform?
200
A professional writer
What is a scribe?
300
They were at the bottom of the Mesopotamian class system.
Who are slaves?
300
He made a covenant to worship only one god.
Who is Abraham?
300
Developed the first modern alphabet, consisting of 22 characters
Who are the Phoenicians?
300
Mud bricks were used to build these pyramid shaped structures.
What are ziggurats?
300
An agreement or promise
What is a covenant
400
The most complete law code of its time.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
400
One of the first monotheistic religions
What is Judaism?
400
The Phoenician alphabet contained none of these
What are vowels?
400
This is still in use world wide today?
What is the wheel?
400
A huge, pyramid shaped structure consisting of a series of stacked, rectangular platforms
What is a ziggurat?
500
He united tribes into the kingdom of Israel.
Who is King David?
500
This was given to Moses by God and is the first five books of the Hebrew Bible
What is the Torah?
500
Contained works of literature, history & mathematics from Sumeria, Akkadia & Babylon
What is the Library at Ninevah
500
These led to a surplus of food and an increased population
What are better farming methods?
500
A area on earth with common physical features
What is a region?